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CHART OP THE HEAVENS 



FOR THE TIME OF BIRTH OF 



Dr. L. D. BROUGHTON, 




April 20th, 1828, at 10.00 A.M., 
Leeds, Yorkshire, Eng. 



THE 



ELEMENTS 



OF 



ASTROLOGY 



BY 



L. D. BROUGHTON, M. D. 



" To deny the influence of the stars is to deny the wisdom and providence of God." 

Tycho Brahe. 

,- A most unfailing experience of the excitement of sublunary natures by the conjunctions and 
>ects of the planets, has instructed and compelled my unwilling belief- 1 ' John Kepler. 

"Principles built on the unerring foundation of observations ai:d experiments; must necessarily 
nd good until the dissolution of nature itself." Emerson. 



Price, S1.50. 



NEW YORK: 

PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR, 
68 South Washington Square. 



ASTRONOMICAL SYMBOLS AND ABBREVIATIONS 

OF 

SIGNS, PLANETS AND ASPECTS. 



¥ Aries, 
tf Taurus, 
n Gemini. 
£p Cancer. 
Si Leo. 
M Virgo. 

l f Neptune. 
T$ Uranus. 
^ Saturn. 

V Jnpitor-29569 

6 Mars. 



rf Conjunction, 

-*• Semi-sextile, 

/_ Semi-square, 

^c Sextile, 

Q Quintile, 

□ Square, 

A Trine, 

Degrees, 
Minutes, 
Second of Space, 



oo 

3° 

45 
oo 

72 

9° 

120 



SIGNS. 

=£= Libra. 
TIL Scorpio. 
$ Sagittarius. 
\3 Capricorn. 
£V Aquarius. 
X Pisces. 

PLANETS. 

O Sun. 

$ Venus. 

$ Mercury. 

j Moon. 

© Part of Fortune. 

ASPECTS. 

Sesq. Sesquiquadrate, 135 

Bq. Bi-quintile, 144 

# Opposition, 180 

P FBranei; 

Q, Dragon's Head. 

13 Dragon's Tail. 

H Hours. 

M Minutes. 

S Seconds of time. 



One would think that people would ask the advice of some competent 
Astrologer who has made thousands of observations, on such as marriages, 
partnerships, commencing business, or laying a corner stone, etc., before 
commencing these undertakings, especially when it can be proved by thou- 
sands or even millions of instances, that when the planets at these events are 
in evil positions for such undertakings, in 99 cases out of every 100, prove 
unfortunate or disastrous to the persons undertaking them, that these people 
would, in time learn to pay attention to such matters, but such is not 
the case. 



I will here state that I had intended devoting a certain part 
of this work to " The Elements of Horary Astrology," also 
"Mundane Astrology, " " Medical Astrology," and "Astro- 
Theology," but I shall have to defer these branches of the 
science to another volume. I hope to follow the present book 
with one on nativities, in the same method as the horoscopes 
commencing' on page 295. 



Copyright, 1898, by L. D. Broughton. Entered at Stationers' Hal!, London, England. 






TWi 



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PREFACE. 



Many of my readers may think I have devoted too much 
space in these pages in answering the opponents of Astrology, 
instead of giving all my attention to the teaching and illustra- 
tion of the science, but as the opponents are in a great 
najority in all Christian countries their influence is too im- 
portant to be slighted. 

Some years ago, when the Legislature of a Western State 
enacted a law to suppress Astrology, the Philadelphia 
" Ledger," in an editorial stated that the Legislatures would 
not need to enact such laws if they would teach the people 
to read and write ; therefore the only reason that I am an 
Astrologer is because I can neither read nor write. 

If some kind missionary, instead of going to teach the 
heathen in China or in the wilds of Africa to read and write, 
would devote some of his energy in teaching me, he would 
forever stop me from prating about Astrology; besides, it 
might be the means of saving my soul. 

At the age of eighteen it was my misfortune to lose my 
father, and I shall never forget how the minister of the " 
Episcopal Church which we attended, devoted a whole after- 
noon, while my father lav dead in the house, in arguing and 
trying to persuade my eldest brother to give up the belief 
and practise of Astrology. There is little doubt that the 
minister, in his mind's eye saw my father's sou] writhing m 
all the agonies of the damned, and feit it to be his duty to 
save my brother, if possible, from such torments. 

The same minister, when talking to me afterwards, praised 
the beautiful language in the forms of prayer in his church 
prayer book, and said that ' ' we not only ought all to pray 
alike, and use the same set forms of prayer, but we ought all 
tw Lhink alike on all religious subjects-" 

In trying to compel every one to think and pray alike, the 
authorities have tried, convicted, and executed in Europe, 
within the last four hundred years, over eleven million heretics 
and witches, including Astrologers, and they have not yet 



IV PREFACE. 

succeeded in accomplishing their object. If we estimate the 
amount of money, time, and energy that it has cost the 
people of those countries in hunting up, arresting, trying, 
convicting, and executing these people, even if they had 
succeeded in their object, would they not have paid too dearly 
for their whistle? And if the governments and priests had 
spent the same amount of time, money, and labor in teaching 
the people useful knowledge, including Astrology, how much 
further would the world now be advanced in civilization and 
human happiness? Even if the priests and clergy had suc- 
ceeded in compelling every person to think and believe alike 
in religious matters, I should like to know how much better 
we would be. Should we not, in that case, be taking rapid 
strides backward to the dark ages, and to the hanging and 
burning of witches and heretics? Would not human intellect 
be shrouded in ignorance, superstition and bigotry? 

A large number of these heretics and witches, including 
Joan of Arc, have been placed on the calendar of saints, and 
the people have built monuments to their memory ; but in 
all history I have never met with a single instance where the 
judges and persecutors of these witches and heretics have 
been thus honored and immortalized. From our standpoint 
the question natturally arises, who were the guilty par- 
ties — those who were executed, or the persecutors and execu- 
tioners? 

My father had many friends on account of his Astrological 
knowledge, and they often came to him for advice, but he 
did not take money for it; he als^ .aught a number of per- 
sons the science, among them the late Frof. Lister,; formerly 
of Boston, afterwards of New York. My father was a man 
of extensive information, and to my young mind seemed to 
be a walking encyclopaedia. I do not remember asking him 
a question on any subject whatever to which he could not 
give me a lucid and proper answer; but he always had one 
saying when he got through, which I now "I & 

getting old, my memory is failing me; do not take my wor 
for it, but read and study for yourself." 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 



TO THE STUDENT. 

Besides writing- this book for the student's perusal and 
guidance, I may possibly be of some assistance in advising 
him as to other books on the subject which will be of advan- 
tage to him while studying, in order to become proficient in 
Astrology and be able to judge of the merits or demerits of 
the science for himself. 

One of the best books the student should read, and which is 
most essential, is Claudius Ptolemy's * * Tetrabiblos, " or four 
books of Astrology. It is to the Astrologer what the Bible is 
to the Christian theologian, or the text-book that all stu- 
dents ought to study in order to become well versed in the 
science. This work is over 2,000 years old, and it is said that 
Claudius Ptolemy gathered and compiled all that was then 
known on the ancient science of Astrology. Astrologers of 
Europe and North America have generally followed Ptolemy's 
system. We have a number of translations of Ptolemy's 
Tetrabiblos from the ancient Greek, but Ashmond's transla- 
tion is recommended as the best for English students. His 
translation is an exceedingly interesting book. My first 
reading of this work gave me more pleasure than any 
novel I have read since. The translation by Mr. Walley 
is a very good book, but is much smaller than Ashmond's 
and not so interesting. Cooper's translation is also good, 
but is somewhat complicated and difficult to understand. Mr. 
James Wilson, who wrote and published the " Dictionary of 
Astrology," made a very good translation, but I did not find 
it as interesting as others. Mr. John Worsdale made a 
splendid translation, but he appears too dogmatical and posi- 
tive in many of his assertions ; in his translation he often uses 
the expression, " in all cases whatsoever ;" but the student will 
find when practising Astrology, that he will have to take into 
account a number of planetary influences in order to arrive at 
a true conclusion, and it is best not to be too positive in his 
judgment of the influence of any one particular planet. 

Worsdale 's translation has never been printed,, and those 

who have the book either had to copy it by hand, as I have 

, or else buy it at a very high price, as it is extremely 

ce. Sibley's translation is very large, published in three 

ames, and goes into many particulars, but he is often 

cientific or visionary. I look upon it as the least satis- 

ry translation of Ptolemy of any that I have read. 

re are other translations of Ptolemy which I have seen, 

e authors' names have slipped my memory. 



VI ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 

From the time of Claudius Ptolemy until near the twelfth 
century, a period of over a thousand years, there appears to 
have been no progress made in the science of Astrology 
in western and northern Europe. After Rome conquered 
England and nearly the whole of northern Europe, about the 
commencement of the Christian era, Astrology, Astron- 
omy, and nearly all the arts and sciences disappeared in 
Europe, excepting such as church and monastery architecture, 
sculpture, painting, working of precious metals to be used 
in religious rites, etc. The people were shrouded in mental 
darkness; ignorance and superstition spread everywhere in 
these countries, and history gives us a period of a thousand 
years of what are called the "dark ages." The people in 
those times gave but little attention to anything but relics 
and saints and the most groveling superstition ; all kinds of 
learning, except such as appertain to religious rites, were 
extinct, and for hundreds of .years there were numbers of 
priests and bishops who could neither read nor write. In every 
country where the Christian religion spread, the minds of 
men became stunted, and the people became effeminate and 
vassals to the priests and the lords of the manor. According to 
common opinion, that ought to have been the Elizabethian 
Age for Astrology; but Astrology, like all other sciences and 
arts, disappeared from these Christian people in the northern 
parts of Europe, and in England, Scotland and Ireland. 

While the people in the above named countries were either 
going naked or dressed in wolves' or bears' skins, the un- 
christian Moors in Barbary and Spain, and in other parts of 
Europe and Africa, were making rapid advances in refine- 
ment and culture, such as architecture, astrology, astronomy, 
anatomy, medicine, agriculture, and other arts and sciences, 
but more especially in the sciences of astronomy and astrology. 

Generally speaking, whenever and wherever civilization 
has advanced in either pagan or Christian countries the 
science of Astrology has always become popular. During 
the time that Rome was at the height of its glory, and was 
said to be the mistress of the world, we are told by the Rev. 
Thomas Dick that the Romans were so infatuated with 
Astrology and Astrologers that the Emperors issued edicts to 
j expel them from the capital, but without effect; and even 
i after they were expelled by a formal decree of the Senate, 
they were so protected bv the people that they still remained 
in Rome unmolested. The same author tells us that this art 
has been practised in every period of time, and in every 
country in the world it is still practised; " And in ancient 
limes Astrology was uniformly included iu the list of sciences:' 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. Vll 

During the time that Christianity was spreading in England, 
Astrology was almost forgotten in northern Europe. The 
Egyptians, Arabians, Chinese, Japanese, and the people 
of the East Indies and the islands of Greece, were culti- 
vating Astrology and Astronomy along with other sciences, 
and the advance of learning generally, to a great extent, 
during this thousand years of the "dark ages " in Christian 
countries; although but few, if any, of their works on Astrol- 
ogy have been translated into English. I have only been able 
to read a few translations from other languages. 

But few astrologers were known in England after the 
" dark ages " until near the 13th century. Among those few 
were Roger Bacon and some monks, who studied Astrology 
in their monasteries during this period, although but few of 
their works have been handed down to us. 

I can only bring to mind Placidus de Titus, an Italian 
monk, of whose work I have a good translation by Cooper, 
who translated Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos. It was published be- 
fore the Copernican system of Astronomy was known, and it 
has a very curious description of the seven heavens and the 
Primum Mobile. Placidus was also . a great believer in the 
" Part of Fortune," it being, according to his theory, in some 
nativities, the "giver of life." It is a very good book, but 
expensive. I have several works which were printed in the 
old English, or black letter, during the 1 6th century, or soon 
after the invention of printing; it is hardly likely that 
students will come across any of these, as they are very rare. 

After the discovery of printing and the revival of learning 
in Christian countries, especially in England during the 
reign of Queen Elizabeth, a number of astrologers sprang 
into existence, among whom was Dr. Dee, a very noted 
English Astrologer, and physician to the Queen, who often 
consulted him for astrological advice. There were a number 
of other astrologers who became noted, and among the most 
learned was William Lilly, who was consulted by Charles 
the First and the leaders of the Revolutionary Parliament. 
He gave a great impulse to the science of Astrology and its 
study. His book on that science, called "Christian Astrol- 
ogy," laid the foundation for what is called "Modern Astrol- 
ogy." It is a very large volume and very expensive, but 
well worth reading, and the student should procure it if it 
ever comes in his way. 

"Zadkiel" (Lieut. Morrison, of the British Navy) pub- 
lished an incomplete edition about the year 1830. After his 
copyright expired, Mr. H. G. Bohn of London republished 
-he same edition, and has sold hundreds of thousands of copies. 



VI11 ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 

Henry Cooley, one of Lilly's pupils, published a very <rood 
book on that science, called the " Key to Astrology." John 
Gadbury, near the same time, published a large book on 
Astrology called the "Doctrine of Nativities." John Gad- 
bury was a very smooth writer, especially in that part of his 
work which treats on Horary Astrology ; he was the first 
one who calculated a "Table of Houses" for 40 degrees 
north latitude, answering for New York and Philadelphia. 
He wrote several other works on Astrology, the names of 
which I have forgotten. Dr. Saunders near the same time 
published a remarkably good work on "Medical Astrology," 
which is one of the best books that has ever been published 
on that subject; the Introduction was written by William 
Lilly. Nicholas Culpepper, about the same time published 
the " British Herbal ; " it had an enormous sale, a great many 
editions having been issued; I have about twenty. The 
edition published by Dr. Hamilton in two large volumes is 
the most complete ; it gives the astrological description of 
diseases, and how to cure them with the herbs ; each herb 
is described, and also the name of the planet that governs it. 
"Culpepper's Herbal" at one time was like the family 
Bible, in almost every cottage in England. It was the book 
that first drew my grandfather's attention to the science of 
Astrology, and induced him to study and make use of it in 
the practice of medicine. There have been a number of 
other very good books on Medical Astrology printed, 
many of which I have read, but the names of the authors I 
have forgotten. In short, at one time Medical Astrology was 
the basis of the only legal practice of medicine that was 
permitted in England, and many countries of Europe — the 
same as it is at the present time in many parts of Asia. 

About the time Culpepper's "British Herbal" made 
its appearance William Ramsey published an excellent work 
on "Mundane Astrology;" it is a large volume and very 
expensive, but one of the best books on that subject ever 
published in the English language. After the middle 
of the 17th century there were a great many very good 
astrological books published by different authors. Among 
the most noted of these books was " Butler's Astrology," a 
large volume published on nativities, in 1688, by the Rev. 
Doctor John Butler, Rector of Litchborough, England, and 
chaplain to the Duke of Ormond, is a very good scien- 
tific book, and the author was a remarkably intelligent 
man. He is very technical and scientific, and his book is tc 
far advanced for young students. The main reason we 
indebted to the Rev. John Butler for his book on Astro" 
is that some years previously to that time he spent a gre? 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. IX 

of his energy publishing articles against Astrology and con- 
demning it, but afterwards came to the conclusion that he 
could expose Astrology with much more effect if he studied 
it and became acquainted with its principles, and the result 
was that he wrote one of the most scientific books on the 
subject. He also republished a horoscope of Jesus Christ, 
and calculated that he was born at 12 o'clock at night, on 
the 25th of December; but Cardinal de Ailly, who died in 
1425, had previously calculated and published the horoscope 
of Jesus Christ. About 1425 there was a great number of 
cardinals and bishops, and other dignitaries of the Church, 
who were believers and students in Astrology, and recognized 
the science; among the number was Calixtus III., Pope of 
Rome. 

Towards the end of the 17 th century Dr. Salmon pub- 
lished a very good work called the "Soul of Astrology." 
Another author, whose name I forget, published a work 
called the "Marrow of Astrology." Another published the 
"Spirit of Astrology;" I think it was Mr. John Partridge. 
Mr. Hay den also published a very good little book on the 
science. Mr. White's "Astrology" is an excellent work. 
About the same time a large number of astrological books 
were published in London. We might designate it the 
" Elizabethian Age of Astrology," especially during the 
latter part of the 16th and the early part of the 17 th centuries. 

In 1723 Richard Ball published a remarkably good book 
on the science, called "Astrology Improved;" and about 
the middle of the 18th century there was quite a number 
of astrological almanacs and ephemerides published. I find 
no less than nine yearly almanacs and ephemerides pub- 
lished in London in 1768. Probably the one that became 
most popular was that published by Francis Moore, physi- 
cian, called the "Vox Stellarum, or Royal Almanac." The 
Rev. Thomas Dick said that it attained an annual sale of 
over two hundred and forty thousand. It was afterwards 
very popular under the name of "Old Moore's Almanac" 
for over a century.* The next to that in popularity was 
the Almanac and Ephemeris of John Partridge; it attained 
a large circulation, so much so that the Stationers' Com- 
pany who were engaged in sending gospel missionaries 
abroad who published the "Gentleman's Diary" and 

the "vV- nan's Almanac," purchased the right of publi- 
cation from Partridge's widow, and continued to publish it 
for nearly a hundred years after, f The next almanac of 
importance was "Parker's Ephemeris" which attained a 

* See Appendix, page 437. t See Appendix, page 445. 



\ 

X ELEMENTS Q"P ASTROLOGY. 

a large circulation. The " News of the Stars," almanac and 
ephemeris, published by William Andrews, student in Astro- 
ogy, became very popular; Salem Pearse's Celestial Diary 
or Ephemeris was a great favorite ; ' ' Poor-Robin's Almanac " 
became very noted, especially on ccount of its prognostica- 
tions. Richard Saunders published the « English Apollo," 
a yearly almanac which became very well known ; also, the 
"Speculum Anni, " or almanac published by Ennis Season, 
became very popular; an almanac published by Tycko Wing, 
"Philomath," became a great favorite. Altogether, these 
almanacs and ephemerides must have attained a yearly circu- 
lation of over a million. 

On account of the persecutions against astrologers and 
Astrology in the latter part of the 18th century, the interest 
in the science began to decline. The encyclopcedias and 
other books which mentioned the name Astrology, and also the 
ministers oF the gospel, could not invent too severe epithets 
against the science and its professors, and during this period 
but few if any ephemerides, except Partridge's and White's, 
were published, and the latter was chiefly used by captains of 
vessels to find the longitude and latitude of their ships at sea. 
But about 1820 Astrology commenced to revive again, and 
Mr. Smith commenced publishing " Raphael's Almanac and 
Prophetic Messenger; " he also published several books on 
the subject. Raphaels "Manual of Astrology" is a very 
good book ; also Raphael's ' ' Hand Books of Astrology, " chiefly 
" Genethliacal " or nativities, and one volume on "Horary 
Astrology," and a small volume called the " Key to Astrol- 
ogy." All four books are very good and concise. Raphael's 
"Prophetic Messenger" and ephemeris is stili published in 
London, and has a an annual sale of near 200,000. 

Near the beginning of the present century John Worse! ale 
published his "Genethliacal Astrology." He was the first 
who revived, or rather discovered, what is termed the long 
calculations, or the "Arc of Directions" in nativities. 
Besides translating "Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos, " Mr. Wors- 
dale published several books on the science in addition to his 
" Genethliacal Astrology," and he made a number of discov- 
eries in that science, or at least other astrologers gave him 
the credit of making them, but he in Claudius 

Ptolemy made these discoveries and tau 

sand years before. He also published a pamphlet ning 

the horoscopes of Napoleon Bonaparte and Arthur Wellesi . 
who was afterward the Duke of Wellington; in that n ph 
let he made a prediction that as Gen. Wellesley had 
benevolent planet Jupiter in the mid-heaven in his horo- 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. XI 

Scope, in almost the exact place that Napoleon Bonaparte 
had the evil planet Saturn, if ever these generals met on 
the battlefield Napoleon would be vanquished and would 
never lead another army, which prediction was fulfilled at 
their first meeting-. That pamphlet was published eleven 
years before the battle of Waterloo. 

About 1830 " Zadkiel " commenced publishing his astrolog- 
ical almanac, which has attained over one hundred and sixty 
thousand yearly circulation. He also published a yearly 
ephemeris ; both continue to the present day. Besides repub- 
lishing Lilly's Astrology, he published a remarkably good and 
useful book called the "Grammar of Astrology," and his 
two hand books on Astrology are equal to anything that have 
been published on nativities. For a long time he published 
a monthly periodical called the " Horoscope," and his name 
has become well known throughout the civilized world. But 
probably one of the most learned astrologers that has given 
attention to the subject since Lilly's time, was Joseph W. 
Simmonite, of Sheffield, England. His ' ' Arcana of Astral 
Philosophy "is an exceedingly good work, and it has been 
republished by the Occult Publishing Company of Boston. Dr. 
Simmonite simplified the long calculations and made many 
improvements. His Horary Astrology I kept on my desk for 
reference for over 30 years. His book on Revolutions is one 
of the best that has ever been published, and his Botanic Prac- 
tice of Medicine is also an excellent little volume ; I carried 
it in my pocket for years, and committed to memory his 
descriptions of diseases. Dr. Simmonite published for many 
years an almanac called the "Meteorologist" and a yearly 
Ephemeris ; also a monthly periodical called the ' ' Messenger. " 

In addition to Zadkiel's Almanac and Ephemeris and 
Raphael's Prophetic Messenger and Ephemeris, there has been 
published in Peterborough, England, for nearly sixty years, 
" Orion's Prophetic Almanac, Weather Guide and Ephe- 
meris, " which is a very good, readable almanac, and has a large 
circulation. On page 142 of this volume I stated that there 
was no ephemeris published in the United States, but since 
I began to write this book, I find that Joseph G. Dalton, of 
Boston, has commenced publishing ' ' The Boston Ephemeris. " 
The first issue is for the year 1898; but I am sorry to say 
he has made all the calculations for the longitude of London, 
England, instead of making them for either the longitude of 
Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Washington or Chicago ; but 
it certainly is a very useful and correct Ephemeris. 

Mr. Dalton has also published a very comprehensive Table 
of Houses from 22 to 5 6° north latitude ; it is a very good and 



XII ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 

useful book, and can be had at my office for $2. 50. It is the 
first Table of Houses that has been published for every 
even degree of north latitude from 22 to 56 . It will also 
answer for the southern hemisphere from 22 to 56 south lati- 
tude by a few slight calculations. Mr. Dalton is one of the 
most learned mathematicians in the United States, and has 
taken great interest in Astrology. 

The " Star " is a very good work on long calculations, pub- 
lished by Eben Shemaya. A New Illustration of the Science 
of Astrology, by Sibley, is a very large, voluminous work, of 
over 1,000 pages, and larger than any ordinary family Bible. 
Wilson's Dictionary of Astrology is a remarkably good work 
for a student to have; a new edition is printed by the Occult 
Publishing Company, of Boston. Mr. James Wilson was a 
splendid writer on Astrology, and very scientific. 

There has been a flood of Astrological books published of 
late years, both in the United States, and in England, 
and a great many of the best of the old authors have 
also been reprinted. The Occult Publishing Company, of 
Boston, has printed all the works that I have mentioned 
of J. W. Simmonite, and also published a number of new 
books on the science. Mr. Bragdon, " Regulus," has written 
several good works on Astrology; among others a brief 
Ephemeris of Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars, from 1701 
to 1918; also a " Table of Ascensions, " " Signs of the Times, " 
and "Zodiacal Physiognomy." Mr. Allen Leo, the editor 
of "Modern Astrology, " a monthly periodical published in 
London, England, has issued a useful little work called 
"Practical Astrology." J. B. Sullivan's "Seven Easy 
Lessons in Astrology " is a good little book for learners. 

" Astrology, Science of Knowledge and Reason," by Ellen 
H Bennett. I cannot speak of the merits of this book, 
as I have not read it. Mr. James Hingston, one of the editors 
of the New York Herald, has lately published a very good 
readable book, called the "Gospel of the Stars, or Wonders 
of Astrology." Carl Anderson's " Astrology and the Bible " 
is a very good work. "Natal Astrology," and the "Soul 
and the Stars," by G. Wilde and J. Dodson of Halifax, Eng-. 
land, is an excellent work on nativities. " Astrology as It Is 
and Not as It Is Represented," is also a very good readable 
book. ' ' The Text Book of Astrology, " chiefly genethliacal or 
nativities, in two large volumes by Alfred J. Pearce of London, 
are remarkably good books for advanced students. 

The first book published on Astrology in the United States, 
was one by Dr. Roeback,* a perfect fraud and an impostor, 



* See Appendix, page 452. 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. XII! 

who knew no more of Astrology than he did about flying 
he got a newspaper reporter to compile it for him, who copied 
it chiefly from John Gadbury's book on Astrology, and called 
it the "Doctrine of Nativities According to Horary Astrol 
ogy. " For a long time it was the only Astrological book 
published in this country. * 

Of late years there have been several pseudo-Astrologica 
works published on what is called " Solar Biology," by Mr. 
Butler, Eleanor Kirk and some others, but practically they are 
not books on Astrology, and the student will lose time in 
studying them. Besides, they are not reliable. 

For over one hundred years nearly all scientific men denied 
that the Moon and planets had any influence on the weather, 
but of late years it is astonishing how many almanacs and 
periodicals are now published on the weather in the United 
States, by such as Rev. Mr. Hicks, Wiggins, Devoe, an* 
others ; and all their predictions on the weather are from th 
influence of the Moon and the planets and their aspects. We 
have even arrived at the point now that without aspects of 
the Moon and planets we have no change of weather. 

When I published " Broughton's Monthly Planet Reader 
and Astrological Journal " 40 years ago, it was the only 
monthly periodical of the kind in the world, or at least in the 
English language. I was acquainted with nearly every man 
in the United States who had any knowledge on the subject, 
and probably at that time there were not twenty persons that 
knew enough of Astrology to be able to erect a horoscope, 
and they were all either French, English or German. There 
was not an American, either man or woman, in the whole 
United States who could even erect a horoscope at that time. 
At the present day there are many thousand American 
people who are studying Astrology, and some have become 
quite proficient in the science. The study and investiga- 
tiomof Theosophy has drawn the attention of the American 
people to the subject of Astrology. They are beginning to 
find out that Astronomy and Astrology are the foundation of 
all religions, and there never was a time when there were 
such a demand for astrological books; also there never waj 
such facilities for studying the science as there are at the 
present day. Within a few years from now, if the interest 



* The first monthly periodical ever published on Astrology in the United States was edited 
by Thomas Hauge, called " Hauge's Horoscope." It commenced about the year 1840, and was 
continued for a number of years. 

The -scond monthly periodical was issued by my eldest brother, Mark A. Broughton, called 

■ Broughton's Monthly Horoscope." It commenced in 1849. and was published for a number of 

year ^u M y brother previously pr^ished an astrological almanac and ephemeris in Leeds. England. 

The above series were very similar to the : ' 20th Centurv Astrologer," which is published at the 

present time at 9 Columbus Ave., New York, for which periodical I write the predictions. 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGV. 

continues, any person who shows an ignorance of the subject 
will be laughed at. There are now numbers of persons who, 
i ill-informed on other subjects, still show an ignorance and 
a remarkably strong prejudice against Astrology, as proof of 
which I refer the reader to different parts of the book, where 
1 have noticed some of the remarks of the editors of the 
' New York Sun," the "Times," the "Herald," and 

pecially in my remarks on the " Humbug of Astrology," 
published in the "World" by Richard A. Proctor. Besides 
the editors of the above named papers, there are several other 
persons that I ought to pay some little attention to in this 
part of^my book. 

For several years I published " horoscopes " in a number 
of newspapers and periodicals in different parts of the United 
States, and sent circulars to editors, asking them if they 
would like horoscopes in their papers. The following are 

imples of some of the answers I received : 

Youth's Companion, Boston, Mass., 

a* t> u. May i cth, i8q<j. 

Mr. Broughton, 

Dear Sir : 

The proposition which you make to the Companion is one which is 
entirely out of its scope, and one which we should under no circumstances 
adopt. We are not ourselves believers in Astrology, and we pity those who 
are. Very Truly Yours, 

The Editors. 



Montgomery St., Jersey City, N. J., 

■^ t t^ -r. l. Feb. ist, 1896. 

Dr. L. D. Broughton, ' y 

68 So. Washington Square, 

Dear Sir: 

I have no doubt that an increase of circulation among a certain class 

could be effected by using your horoscopes. I should, however, be very sorry 

to undertake to secure circulation by fostering such a baleful and ridiculous 

superstition. Yours Respectfully, 

The Evening Journal Assoc, 

Joseph A. Dear, Treas. 

I might here mention that a particular friend of mine, who 
was studying Astrology, one day went into a large book store 
in Baltimore, and asked if they had for sale "Wilson's 
Dictionary of Astrology." The proprietor made answer by 
saying ' ' No, and I hope for the sake of humanity, that such 
a book has never been published." My friend quietly asked 
him, ' ' Do you know anything about Astrology? " ' ' No, and I 
do not want to know anything about it." There are vast 
numbers of this kind of people in all Christian coun< 
I will not attempt to answer them myself, but refer the 
student to pages 245 and 246 of this book, and let Mr. James 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. XV 

Wilson answer them for me, as I think he can do it in much 
more forcible and better language than I have at command. 
I wish the student to distinctly bear in mind that Mr. 
Wilson knows what he is writing about, whereas the editors 
of the "Youth's Companion," Mr. Joseph A. Dear, and the 
book store man in Baltimore, know nothing about Astrol- 
ogy, consequently do not know what they are talking about. 
They are simply talking of some undefinable chimera which 
they have in their own brain, and which has no relation 
whatever to Astrology. No one could have been more 
opposed to what he thought was Astrology than Professor 
W. H. Chaney, before he became acquainted with me. One 
time he was at a public meeting in Boston, and the speaker, 
a very intelligent man, happened to mention the word, 
"Astrology." Mr. Chaney told me afterwards, he looked 
down with supreme contempt on the gentleman for insult- 
ing such an audience by mentioning the word ' ' Astrol- 
ogy. " There is no doubt if the above editors did acquire 
some knowledge of the science, they would work equally as 
hard in favor of Astrology, and do as much to promulgate 
its principles, as Mr. Chaney has done since he commenced 
studying the science. Mr. Chaney has made it a study, day 
and night, and has published numbers of text books on the 
science, which he calls "Primers," besides editing a monthly 
magazine on Astrology, and publishing an ephemeris in this 
country for a number of years. He also republished White's 
Ephemeris, extending over 75 years, making a number of 
calculations for the same, to find or correct the positions 
of the planets. And as he tells us in his preface to White's 
Ephemeris, ' ' I will say in conclusion that I have toiled very 
hard for the last year and a half, and have been setting type 
and reading proof, with my mind on a constant strain to de- 
tect an error. For months in succession, Sunday as well as 
week days, I have made an average of fifteen hours, daily 
labor." Mr. Chaney has continued to labor hard in the 
cause for over thirty years, by lecturing, writing and teach- 
ing the science of Astrology at great sacrifice to himself. 

To correct as far as possible the wrong impressions that 
many intelligent people have on Astrology, I have published 
this volume, so as to disseminate a knowledge of the science. 

God appears to have made the world upside down, and 
things appear inverted to men as well as to babies, the first 
time they look at them ; and men, like babies, have to learn 
to see things aright. That is the reason why the common 
people, the first time any truth is presented to them, oppose 
it with all the vehemence they can possibly command, and 



XVI ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 

persecute the persons who present these great truths, and in 
doing so these ignorant people think they are rendering 
God service, for which God will reward them in a future 
life, and so all the people that die go to the wrong place, 
and the public afterwards find that those who were perse- 
cuted the most have been the best people while living in this 
world, and ought to have gone to the good place in the next. 

We are taught in the Episcopalian creed, that Jesus Christ 
"suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead and 
buried, descended into hell and rose again from the dead on 
the third day, and ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the 
right hand of God, the Father Almighty." And if that is 
not all true, I do not see why the authorities should imprison 
people, and burn them alive at the stake for not believing it. 

Joan of Arc was burned alive by the English for being a 
witch, but really for no other reason than that she was a 
successful leader or general for the French soldiers, and 
defeating the English armies; but it took over four hundred 
years for her to ascend into heaven. 

In this book I have attempted to accomplish three objects: 

First, to make the book interesting to the general reader, 
although he has no knowledge whatever of the science of 
Astrology. 

Second, to bring forward such an amount of facts and 
phenomena in their relation to Astrology, and the various 
events in history, that it will bean impossibility to deny their 
relation. These phenomena and the coincident events might 
have been traced back for thousands of years, if it had been 
necessary to bring further proof, and all of them would 
have coincided so as to be related or connected one with the 
other. Emerson says : ' ' Principles built on the unerring 
foundation of observations and experiments must necessarily 
stand good until the dissolution of nature itself." 

Third, to make "The Elements of Astrology" so simple, 
easy and plain to an ordinary person, who has received a 
common 1 school education, that hereafter there can be no 
excuse for any person that can read and write remaining 
ignorant of the science of Astrology. 

I am aware that there have been numbers of very good 
text books on Astrology published, the names of most of 
which I have mentioned in the preceding pages, but they 
have all been written as if the author expected the student 
had already become interested in the subject, and had made 
a certain advancement in the science, or that he had a com- 
petent teacher at hand to instruct him in the rudiments and 
principles of the science; or at least all the students in 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. XVII 

Astrology whom I have become acquainted with have made 
that complaint ; and I must admit when I commenced study- 
ing- Astrology, over fifty years ago, it would have been an 
impossibility for me to have learned from the books without 
a teacher, as it is more difficult to learn than any other of the 
natural sciences. 

My long experience and practice has made me so familiar 
with the science that I hope I have made the "Elements of 
Astrology " so easy to be understood, that it will answer as 
a stepping stone to larger and scientific books on the subject. 

That such a work is called for at the present day, I might 
bring thousands of instances to prove, but will only give one : 

A lady wrote me from Salem, Massachusetts, Dec. 14th, 
1897, and expressed herself in the following language: 

" Esteemed Sir: 

Will you permit me, an interested reader, and an ardent admirer of all 
your writings, to intrude upon your valuable time by penning a few lines 
on a subject on which I know you can assist me, if you will kindly consent 
to do so. I am very desirous of becoming an Astrologist. 1 am well edu- 
cated and a student, and I am willing to work hard to accomplish the object 
in view. I have procured the " Language of the Stars," which seems beyond 
my comprehension, and "Raphael's Key to Astrology ; " also have the 
Astrologer's Magazine, but try as I may I cannot get ahead, and I am 
very much discouraged, yet I am determined to conquer in spite of ali 
obstacles. I felt that you might kindly advise me what is the best plan to 
pursue, as I am so anxious to succeed. I thought that in writing to yon 
you might kindly suggest to me the "missing link" which I have failed to 
discover." 



I hope and really believe that not only this lady, but every 
other lady who can read the English language, will discover 
the "missing link " in the following pages. 

Some of my friends think that I have devoted too much 
space in this book to the general reader; but how shall we 
reach such people as the Editor of "Youth's Companion," 
the book store man in Baltimore, or Mr. Joseph A. Dear of 
the " Jersey City Evening Journal, " without addressing them 
in language which they can understand? Of course if such as 
they can not become interested in Astrology, they will still 
go on regarding that science as "baleful, and ridiculous 
superstition." If every kind of information that Mr. Dear 
does not know is " laughable and of a low and degrading 
nature," there must be a large surplus of that commodity in 
the world, and the only way to reduce it is for him and all 
persons like him to become better informed. 

Mr. W. R. Hearst, editor of the "New York Morning 
Journal," appears to be of a different opinion to the editor 
of the "Jersey City Journal," as the former gentleman has 



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offered one thousand dollars to the one who can make the 
most correct predictions for 1898, either by Astrology or any 
other method. 

Of course if Mr. Hearst had made that offer fifty years 
ago, there would not nave been a minister of the Gospel or 
a newspaper editor in the country, that would not have 
condemned him to everlasting torment. As the former 
gentlemen regarded even the wish or desire to pry into the 
future as equal in iniquity to ''sinning against the Holy 
Ghost, which is never forgiven, either in this world or that 
which is to come," Mr. Hearst would even have been 
treated worse than I was when lecturing on the science of 
Astrology, thirty years ago. 

No one could have been more opposed to the science of 
Astrology, or have striven more to have laws enacted for its 
suppression, than the late Charles A. Dana, editor of the 
" New York Sun," and yet at the end of each year, instead of 
giving a synopsis of the past events of that year, as was 
done by all other papers, he went on guessing what would 
happen in the following year, and in nine cases out of ten 
he was incorrect in his conclusions. 

The offer of $1,000 which the "Journal" has made will 
give a great impulse to the study of Astrology, especially in 
the United States, as the people will gradually discover that 
there is no other method equal to the science of Astrology 
in predicting future events, either national or individual. 

Mr. Emerson says: " Hitch your wagon to a star. " The 
student should constantly bear in mind that when he was 
born not only his wagon, but he himself, was hitched to a 
Planet, and that "there is not a pulse beats in the human 
frame that is not governed by the stars or planets above us, 
and at thy birth thy mother's eye gazed not more steadfastly 
on thee than did the planet that rules thy fate." 

It is our duty to learn and study the nature of these planets, 
and their influence on human beings, and be guided by them, 
and as John Kepler says: "A most unfailing experience of 
the excitement of sublunary natures by the conjunctions and 
aspects of the planets, has instructed and compelled my 
unwilling belief." If we only will let the conjunctions and 
aspects of these same planets instruct our unwilling belief 
they will enable us to make the most of our talents and 
opportunities while sojourning through this vale of tears. 

The man who will insist in remaining in ignorance must 
suffer the natural consequences, but at the same time he 
should not try to compel other people to remain in the same 
condition. The student will find all honest astrologers will 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 

aid him to learn the science himself, so as to form his 
judgment of its merits or demerits, and after he has become 
informed on the subject, he will not be like the "fox with 
the sour grapes," regard every thing which he does not kn 
or cannot understand as "fostering to baleful and ridiculous 
superstition." 

There is no doubt that near the end of 1898 other nev s- 
papers will make similar offers besides the ' ' New Yc rk 
Morning Journal," if they find it to their interest to do so, 
even if such men as Mr. Dear think it is " fostering a ba^ 
ful and ridiculous superstition among a certain class." What 
class Mr. Dear refers to is difficult to conjecture. I cannot 
believe that he referred to the class who study and investigate 
Astrology. I might give a number of illustrations, why I 
cannot think he refers to the latter "class" but give the 
following, as one reason: 

Some years ago, when my eldest son assisted me in my 
practice, and I was out visiting patients, and gentlemen or 
ladies came to my office to consult me in regard to their ail- 
ments, he attended them, but if any very intelligent wealthy 
lady or gentleman came in their carriages, he often made 
the mistake of asking them if they had not come to consult 
his father on Astrology, as few, except of that class came to 
consult me in that science; but of course the above kind of 
people is not the "class" among which Mr. Dear wishes to 
"increase the circulation" of his paper, but among that 
class, who when I was giving lectures on Astrology, came 
to make disturbance and break up my meetings, and to make 
night hideous in the room above, where we were living. 

In conclusion I will say that if I have succeeded in inducing 
even one person to become interested in this ancient and long 
neglected science, who formerly looked on it as " baleful and 
ridiculous superstition," I shall not have written this book 
in vain; and as Mr. James Hingston, (a man whom I highly 
esteem, although he is one of the editors of the New Y01 k 
Herald,) in his Preface to his "Gospel of the Stars, or Wonders 
of Astrology," says: 

" My object in writing this book has been to aid in popularizing the 
once famous, but long neglected science or art of Astrology. The facts 
therein contained I have gathered from many sources, but mainly from the 
works of the great dead star readers, to whom I gladly acknowledge my 
debt of gratitude 5 for, even though they be dead, who can say that they are 
utterly beyond the reach of praise or blame? 

"I have aimed rather to interest than to instruct, for which reason 
instead of a text-book, I give here a picture of Astrology as it was in the 
past, dwelling to the best of my abilitv on the glories of its career, and 
showing why it is as worthy of esteem in our days as it was in the days of 



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Ptolemy. I know of no book on the subject that has been written from this 
standpoint. There are some serviceable text-books for students, but there 
are hardly any astrological books that appeal to the people." 

I agree with Mr. Hingston, that we ought, at the present 
day, to show that Astrology is as worthy of esteem now as 
it was two thousand years ago. 

In the following pages, I have endeavored to combine a 
text-book with a ' ' picture of the glorious career of Astrology 
in the past," and at the same time to make it interesting to 
both the student and general reader. How far I have suc- 
ceeded in my object, I leave to a kind and indulgent public 
to decide. 



LESSONS AND BOOKS ON ASTROLOGY. 

I have endeavored to make Astrology as plain and easy as possible to 
the learner in the following pages, but still there may be some persons, who 
cannot possibly learn the science without lessons from a competent teacher 5 
should any of my readers not be able to master the subject without such 
assistance, to those I offer instruction at $3.00 per lesson of one hour. 
Sometimes it is necessary for persons to take eight or ten lessons before they 
are able to calculate horoscopes and read them satisfactorily. 

There are some persons so constituted that it »is impossible for them to 
make any headway in studying Astrology, and this can be learned before- 
hand from their horoscopes; as there are many persons so constituted as 
never to become good musicians, orators, actors, physicians or lawyers, and 
it would be advisable before commencing the study of Astrology to have 
their horoscope calculated, and find if it is favorable for that science, if so, 
then there is no doubt but what they can become proficient in it, and it will 
be an advantage to them ; for this information I charge from $2.00 to $5.00. 

In addition to the "Elements of Astrology," there are numbers of other 
books published on the science, which it is advisable that the student should 
purchase, and study as much as possible; some of these books I have men- 
tioned in the previous pages, but there are some that are much easier under- 
stood than others, and those mentioned below are of that kind. 

It is often very difficult to advise the student which particular book he 
should read and study first ; that depends upon what particular branch of 
Astrology he is aiming to become proficient in ; forinstance, if he wants speci- 
ally to study Mundane Astrology, he should purchase books on that subject, 
the same in regard to Nativities, Medical Astrology or Horary Questions, etc., 
but if he wants to become a competent Astrologer, and have a general 
knowledge of the science, I recommend him to purchase the following, 
which can be obtained at my office, No. 68 South Washington Square, Ne-iv 
York, at the prices appended. 

" Key to Astrology," by Raphael, $0.35 Table of Houses from 22 to 56 north 

" Horary Astrology," 1.00 latitude, $2.50 

" Raphael's Horary Astrology," 1.00 Raphael's Ephemeris for 1898, including 

" Simmonite's Horary Astrology," 1.25 Tables of Houses for latitude of 

" Seven Easy Lessons on Astrology," ?$ London. Liverpool and New York, . .. .25 

"Guide to Astrology," Raphael, 2 volumes, 2.00 Raphael's Ephemerides, back years, (each) .35 

" Wilson's Dictionary of Astrologv," 4.00 " Boston Ephemeris." by J. G. Dnlton,. . . .25 

"Lilly's Astrology," and "Zadkiel's *' A Treatise of Natal Astrology," 3.50 

Grammar of Astrology," 2.00 " Complete Arcana of Astral Philosophy," 

by J. W. Simmonite, 4.50 

All other books on Astrology that are in print may be had on applica- 
tion at reasonable rates. 



CONTENTS. 



, 



Page 

Preface, in. 

To the Student, v. 

Lessons and Books on Astro'ogy, xx. 

A Glossary of Astrological Terms, . . xxv. 

Elements of Astrologyy, — Introduction,.... „' 5 
A brief History of Astrology, by i:s Friends 

or Advocates. • •• 8 

A short History of Astrology by its Enemies, 12 
Remarks on Prof. Proctor's "Humbug of 

Astrology," 17 

Rev. Thomas Dick of England on'Astro'ogy, 
in his " Improvement of Society by 

the Diffusion of Knowledge," 18 

" Chambers's Encyclopcedia '" on Astrology, 19, 
John Kepler's Discoveries in Astronomy 

and Astrology, 21 

John Dryden, Cardinal Richelieu, and Sir 

Isaac Newton, Astrologers, 22 

The supposed Argument which the Enemies 
of Astrology, have brought against that 

Science, 24 

Dr. Mesmer and Animal Magnetism, and 
the French Academy of Science — Ben- 
jamin Franklin and the Lightning Rod, 32 
Harry Howard, his execution for murder, 

and Hipnotism, 33 

Chinese and Astrology, and iheir Method 

of making use of it in their Marriages, 35 
Mrs. Maud S-, The New York Times, and """ * 

Astrology, 36 

The Author's Criticism on the Editor of the 

New York Times 37 

Mrs. Maud S 's Daughter's Horoscope, ... 38 
The Opposition to Lectures on Astrology in 

New York City 40 

The Persecution the Author met with at 

814 Broadway, New York 41 

The interference of the Author's Lectures, 

and the breaking up of the Meetings,. . 42 
The stoppage of the Author's mail in the 

post-office in New York 43 

Astrology in London, by Edgar Lee, 45 

Correspondence with Dr. L- D Broughton, 
O. D. Bradgen, and A N. Doerschuk 

on writings of horoscopes, 50 

The Bible and Astrology, 57 

Pharaoh's Dream and the Magicians of 

Egpyt and Babylon 58 

Misrepresentation of Astrology, 60 

Theories of ancient Astronomers, 5 5o" 

1 of Jupiter coincident with 
Cholera and epidemics,.. . 62 
ction of one planet on 

65 

; earth and its inhabitants 

.... approach of Mars,. 66 

Diagram of the Solar System,. . . , 67 

Mars in opposition to the Sun 67 

The period of the war 68 

The sign Gemini rues the United States,.. 69 

Critical times — stirring periods,, 69 

Important era in history, (Salem Witchcraft), 70 

Meteorolo-ry and Planetary Influence, 72 

The planet Neptune in Gemini, 1720; 
South Sea Bubble, and John Law's 

Banking Scheme, 74 

Neptune in Gemini from 1888 to 1902 ; 
Panama Scat.- 3 ^, and suspension of 
Baring Brothers, of London, 76 



PArp. 

The sign Taurus rules Ireland,.. . . 

Personal description of man or worn? - 

described by the Planets, 79 ' 

The afflicting planets describe the assassin 

in remarkable murder cases, 80 

The horoscope of the assassination of 

President Lincoln, on April 14th. 1865, 81 
The horoscope of the assassination of Presi- 
dent Garfield. July 2d, 1881, 82 

The horoscope of the assassination of Lord 

Frederick Cavendish and Mr. Thomas 

Murke, May 6th, 1882, 83 

Horoscope of the assassination of Carrie 

Brown (" Old Shakespeare,") 84 

Horoscope of the assassination of Mr. 

Andi ew J. Borden and his wife, August 

4th, 1891, 85 

Elements of Astrology — Rudiments of the 

Science, / 87 

A blank chart of the Heavens, showing the 

position and number of Houses, 88 

The signification of the 12 Houses, 89 

The nature, quality and description of the 12 

Houses, .... 90 

Advice to students studying Astrology, .... 93 

Remarks on the signs of the Zodiac, 94 

Divisions of the signs of the Zodiac, 95 

General appearance of persons described by 

the 12 signs of the Zodiac 97 

Persons described by the 8 Planets, 99 

The description of Herschel persons, 99 

The description of Saturn perrons,.. 100 

The description of Jupiter, Mars and Sun 

persons, 101 

The description of Venus persons, 102 

The description of Meicury and Moon 

persons, 103 

General advice to the student in learning the 

description of persons, 104 

Herschel in the 12 signs of the Zodiac,.... 105 

Saturn in the 12 signs 106 

Jupiter in the 12 signs,.. 108 

Mars in the 12 signs, no 

Sun in the 12 signs, 113 

Venus in the 12 signs, 115 

Mercury in the 12 signs, 117 

The Moon in the 12 signs, 119 

The effects of the conjunction of Uranus 

with the 7. planets, 122 

The effects of Saturn in conjunction with 

the other planets, 125 

The effects of Jupiter in conjunction with 

the other planets 126 

The effects of Mars in conjunction with the 

other planets 128 

The effects of the Sun in conjunction with 

the other n'anets, 129 

The effects of Venus and Mercury, when in 

conjunction with the Moon, 130 

Of the Sextile and Trine aspects of the 

significators, 131 

The effects of the square or opposition 

aspect between the significators, - 13? 

Practical Astrology, 141 

Rule to set a Map of the Heavens 142 

Horoscope of the Inauguration of Hon. 

William McKinlev,.... _ . 143 

Chart of thf Heavens for the time that Presi- 
dent McKinley took the oath of office, 146 






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CONTENTS. 



Page 
Horosc e erected for the time that the 
Session of Congress met at 
ington, D. C, March 15th, 1897, 

at 12 Noon 1 >o 

f Mis. Maud S.'s daughter,... . 151 

lculate the "Part of Fortune," . . 151 

ie Heavens for a girl born July 

^4, at 8.35 A.M., New York City, 15* 

Lords or Rulers of the signs of the Zodiac, 155 

Table of Lords of the signs or of the Houses, 154 

Claudius Ptolemy — reasons for allotting the 

signs to these planets, 154 

Rules for reading horoscopes, 155 

Acquire a regular system of reading a horo- 
scope 156 

The giver of Life, 1 57 

Personal description 158 

How to describe a person by the planets and 

the signs of the Zodiac, 159 

Rules to be followed in describing persons,. 160 

Sickness, diseases and complaints, 161 

The financial benefit to the persons in study- 
ing Astrology, % 161 

Riches and Poverty, , . 162 

Mental Abilities, 162 

Disposition and Temper, 162 

Business and Honor. 163 

Friends ar.d Enemies, 163 

Morals and Religion — relations and jour- 
neys, 163 

Marriage, 164 

Rules for describing the kind of person, a 
lady or gentleman will many; also 
whether it will be a happy or unhappy 

marriage, 164 

The kind of gentleman Mrs. Maud S.'s 

daughter will marry, 166 

Tile age when married, 167 

Children, 167 

Health, 167 

The various contingencies and events of 

life,...., 167 

Rules how to calculate those various events 

and contingencies of life, 168 

Criticism on the New York Times, and 

other remarks on Astrology, 171 

Criticism on Chas. A. Dana, editor of the 

b New York Sun — remarks on Astrology, 174 
Horoscope of the Chinese Consul's son,. . . 175 

Remarks on the Part of Fortune, 176 

How to describe a person born under ihe 

planet Mercury in the sign Cancer 177 

Health and Life, .... 178 

Riches and Poverty, 178 

Trade and Profession, 178 

Friends and Enemies, 176 

Marriage and Children 179 

Fortunate and Unfortunate periods, or the 

various contingencies or events of life,. 180 
Rules for judging the events and the times 

that they will happen in nativities, 181 

Remarks on Secondary directions, 182 

A Synopsis of Medical Astrology, 183 

On Professor Draper's ridiculing William 

Lilly's Astrology, 184 

Parts of the bodies ruled bv the 12 houses 

and the 12 signs of" the Zodiac 185 

Diseases caused by the planets 187 

Rules to judge the probable time of Mar- 
riage of the native — also the number of 

children, 189 

How to judge if a horoscope is fortunate or 

unfortunate 191 

Mental Abilities 193 

The temper or the animal passions 194 

Profession and Trade— Riches and Poverty, 194 



Page 

Business or Profession in which the native 

will be unfortunate, 196 

Profession or Business in which the native 

would be fortunate, 198 

The influence of the Lord of the first house 

in each of the 12 houses, 199 

The Lord of the second in the 12 houses,.. 201 

The Lord of the third in the 12 houses, 202 

The Lord of the fourth in the 12 houses,... 204 

The Lord of the fifth in the 12 houses, 205 

The Lord of the sixth in the 12 houses,... 206 
The Lord of the seventh in the 12 houses,. . 208 
The Lord of the eighth in the 12 houses,... 210 

The Lord of the ninth in the 12 houses, 212 

The Lord of the tenth in the 12 houses, 213 

The Lord of the eleventh in the 12 houses, 215 
The Lord of the twelfth in the 1 2 houses,. .. 217 

Remarks and Explanations, 219 

Remarks on the lords of the 12 houses, and 
explaining how they are used in direc- 
tions, transits, revolutionary figures, 

etc., 223 

Remarks on the changes in the personal 
appearance of the native in the different 

periods of his life, 224 

Rules for judging of the changing of the 

build and complexion of the native, ... 224 
The planets impress distinct characteristics 
or marks on the native which can be 

recognized 226 

The seven planets rule the human sys- 
tem — named in the following order, — 227 
How to find the time of day a person is 
born ; also how to correct the wrong 

time of birth, y • . . • • • " 8 

Table of Essential Dignities, and various 

other tables and information, 231 

Planets and other symbols, 231 

The signs of the Zodiac and their classifica- 
tion, 2JZ 

The division of the 12 signs of the Zodiac,.. 233 

Triplicities or Trigons, 234 

The signs divided among the planets, 235 

Explanation of the Table of Essential Digni- 
ties, •.•••.-. .•:••• 2 ? 6 

Table of Essential Dignities, and debilities 

of the planets 237 

Remarks on the Table of Essential Dignities 

of the planets, 238 

Joys of the planets 239 

The reason a planet receives its joy in one 

of its own signs and not in the other,.. 239 
Historical remarks on the Essential Digni- 
ties of the planets, 239 

Orbs of the Planets, 240 

Table of the planet's orbs 240 

The mean motion of the planets, 240 

Table of the mean motion of the planets,. . " • I 
Sympathy and antipathy of the planets — or- 

friends and enemies 24 1 

A table of the friendship and enmities of the 

planets,. 14' 

Aspects of the planets 24' 

New aspects discovered by John Kepler,.. 243 

The Dragon's Head or Moon's Node, 24} 

Good and evil Planetary Hours, .. . 244 

Prof. Wilson's criticisms on skeptics of 

Astrology 2 45 

Different grades of believers in Astrology,. 246 

Remarks on the planetary hours... 247 

The French and Latin names of days of the 
week, and explanation why the names of 
some of those days of the week have 

been changed 2 4 8 

Signification of the planet: ry hours, and 
what use may be m? .„w of them, M9 



CONTENTS. 



XXIII 



Page 

The influence of the planetary hours of the 

Sun, Moon and the five planets, .... 229 

The hours of Saturn and Jupiter, 249 

The hours of Mars, Sun, Venus, and Mer- 
cury, 250 

The hour of Moon, 251 

Remarks on the planetary hours, 251 

The reason planetary hours have not been 

more generally made use of, 252 

The hours of good planets and the hours of 
evil planets may vary in their influence 
in certain horoscopes, 253 

Tables of planetary hours, and the reason 

why they vary in length, 254 

Perpetual table of planetary hours from sun- 
rise, until 2 hours after sunset, 255 

Tabie of planetary hours from sunrise until 
2 hours after sunset on every alternate 
Wednesday of any year, 282 

The difference between clock or mean and 

solar time, 285 

Perpetual Table of Equation of Time, 286 

Different methods of measuring time by the 

Heavenly Bodies, 286 

Elections or choosing a fortunate time to 
commence new business, removal or 
remarkable changes, 287 

Election for laying the first stone, 288 

Elections for buying or renting a house, 

lands or tenements, etc., 288 

Elections for removal from one house to 

another 288 

Election for entering into new business, 

office or employment, 288 

Election for commencing a trade or profes- 
sion, . . 289 

Election for Marriage, 289 

Election for proposing Marriage, 290 

Election for introduction to Ladies and 

Gentlemen, 290 

Election for going on a Journey, 291 

Election for Navigation or going on a 

Voyage, 291 

Election for Collecting a Debt or Money that 

is owing ' 292 

Elections to make friendship to brothers, 

sisters, kindred, neighbors, etc, 292 

Elections for hiring servants or employees,. 292 

Some choice rules or aphorisms for election 

relating to several undertakings, 292 

Elections for duels and lawsuits, 293 

Remarks on the time that some persons 
that we know of have got married and 
the result, especially that of Mr. and 
Mrs. Langtry . 294 

Horoscope of Hon. William McKinley, 295 

Chart of the Heavens for the time of' birth 

of Ho.,. William McKinley, 296 

What the Stars Say, from the " Baltimore 

American,". 297 

Hon. William J. Bryan's Horoscope, .... '. 298 

Chart of the Heavens for Hon. W. J. 



Bryan's time of birth, 



299 

The two Conventions, 300 

Further remarks on the Horoscopes of 
President McKinley, and Hon. William 
J. Bryan, and their nominations 300 

Chart of the Heavens when Hon. William 

McKinley was nominated foi President, 301 

Chart of the Heavens for the time of the 
nomination for President of Hon. 
William J. Bryan, 301 

Horoscope for the sailing of the German 

Fleet for China, 305 

Chart of the Heavens for the time of mar- 
riage of Mr. and Mrs. Langtry, 307 



Page 

Picture of Mr. and Mrs. Lillian Langtry,.. 308 
Horoscope of Victoria, Queen of Great 
Britain and Ireland, and Empress of 

India, ... . 310 

Remarks on reading Queen Victoria's Horo- 
scope at a public lecture, 311 

Remarks on the Horoscope of Prince Albert, 312 

The picture of Prince Albert, 3*3 

The portrait of Queen Victoria at 20 years 

of age,. 314 

Picture of Queen Victoria at the age of 79, 3 X 5 
The Revolutionary Chart of Queen Victoria 

from May 24th, 1898. to May 24th, 1899, 316 
Remarks on the Revolutionary and Second- 
ary Directions of Queen Victoria, 316 

Queen Victoria's Secondary Directions from 

May 24th, 1898, to May 24th, 1899, 317 

Horoscope of Lillian Russell, 319 

Chart of the Heavens for the time of birth 

of Lillian Russell, 319 

Pictures of Lillian Russell's first and second 

husbands, 320 

Picture of Lillian Russsll and her third 

husband, 321 

Picture of Lillian Russell and reported 

fourth husband, 322 

Horoscope of Lord George Gordon Byron, 324 
Chart of the Heavens for Lord Byron's birth, 324 

Picture of Lord George Gordon Byron, 325 

Marriage of Lord Byron 326 

" Byron's Farewell to England,'' 330 

Horoscope of the Young King of Spain,.... 332 
Chart of the Heavens for the time of birth 

of the Young King of Spain, 332 

Picture of Alphonso XIII., King of Spain, 

his Mother, and his two Sisters...... .. 333 

Heredity and Planetary Influence, 334 

Horoscope of the multi-millionaire, Jay 

Gould 336 

Portrait of Jay Gould, 337 

Seven concise reasons why everyone should 

have a reading of their lives, 339 

Horoscope of Charles Dickens 340 

Chart of the Heavens for the time of birth 

of Charles Dickens, 340 

Portrait of Charles Dickens, 341 

Horoscope of Gen. Ulysses Simpson Grant, 343 

Picture of Gen. Grant, .. . . 344 

Chart of the Heavens for Gen. Giant's birth, 345 
Horoscope of President George Washington, 346 
Chart of the Heavens for the time of Gen. 

George Washington's birth, 346 

Picture of Gen. George Washington, 347 

Prof. Draper on William Lillv's Astrology, 349 
Sickness and Allopathic treatment of Gen. 

George Washington 349 

The physician's report of Gen. Washington's 

last illness.. 350 

Modern medication, or the Allopathic treat- 
ment of Mr. Maybrick, 351 

Dr. Brown-Sequard's Elixir of Life, 351 

Dr. Koch's remedy for Consumption, 351 

Mr. Pasteur and Prof. Verneuil's remarks 

on Dr. Koch's remedy for Consumption, 352 

A cure for the bite of a rattlesnake, 352 

" Who are the regulars and who are the 



quav 



352 



The ingredients and prescriptions sent by 
Allopathic doctors to Samuel Boyer for 
the cure of dyspepsia, 353 

Dr. Trumbull W. Cleveland's prescription 

for Mrs. James L. Carhart's babv, 354 

The second prescription of Dr. Cleveland 

and his treatment of Mrs. Carhart's baby, 355 

Persecution of Homeopathic and Botanic 
Practitioners, 356 



CONTENTS. 



Page 
Allopathic physicians endeavoring to sup- 
press patent medicines by having laws 

enacted against their manufacture, 357 

The objections to the science of Astrology 

answered, 358 

The planet Neptune, 362 

Neptune in the 1 2 houses, 363 

The aspects of Neptune, 364 

Horoscope of President Cleveland and |of 

Ex-President Harrison, 365 

Horoscope of Grover Cleveland, 366 

Horoscope of Benjamin Harrison, 367 

Chart of President Harrison's birth, 368 

Further remarks on the horoscopes of Ex- 
President Harrison, 369 

A few remarks on the horoscope of Presi- 
dent Cleveland, 370 

Esther Cleveland's nativity, 371 

The Baby's horoscope, 373 

The horoscope of Emperor William III of 

Germany, 375 

The horoscope of the third French Republic, 377 

Why I am an Astrologer, 378 

Preface, 379 

Introductory remarks, 380 

Sentence of Mr. Rotnain to 18 months im- 
prisonment by Judge Gordon, of Phila- 
delphia, Pa.,... 380 

1 — Why I undertook to write this pamphlet, 381 
2— The object I wish to accomplish by the 

present publication, 383 

A letter to the editor of the New York 

World, by the Author 384 

An introduction to the Reader, 387 

A letter of introduction, 388 

The Author's extensive acquaintance, . . .. 388 
Remarks on Chailes A. Dana's periodical 

fits of insanity, 391 

How the innocent suffer by corrupt laws, 392 
If Charles A. Dana had lived 300 years ago 
he would have advocated laws to pre- 
vent people from reading the Bible,.. .. 393 
The Author's persecution at 814 Broadway, 394 

Astrological Society, 395 

How Israel Holdsworth came to republish 

White's Ephemeris, 395 

The reason Mr. Chaney republished White's 

Ephemeris in the United States, 396 

Why I came to have the planet Neptune's 

longitude calculated, 397 

The scarcity of Astrologers and Astrological 

Ephemerides in the United States, 397 

An account of both my grand fathers, . . . 398 
Why I came to lecture on Astrology at 814 

Broadway, 400 

l*"-tVssor Richard A. Proctor, on Astrology, 401 

The H umbug of Astrology 401 

The New York World refused to publish 

my answer to Richard A. Proctor, 404 

Reply to Mr. Proctor which the New York 

World refused to publish 405 

The Author's criticism on Mr. Proctor and 

the New York World 407 

Riots in London caused by the repeal of 

tyrannical laws in 1778, 408 

Astrology and Astronomy in ancient times, 409 
The diseases of the body supposed to be 

caused by evil spirits or devils, 410 

Comparing Astrology with Music, 411 

The persecutions by the Catholic Church 

and the burning of John Huss,. 412 

The assumptions of Richard A. Proctor,.. 413 

Fn>t: — The christian religion, 413 

Second: — Reformation and witchcraft, 415 

A miracle is Legitimate witchcraft, and 

witchcraft is an Illegitimate miracle, 416 



Page 

Bayard Taylor's comparison of Christianity 

and Mohamniedism,.. . 417 

Third: — The change from the Ptolemaic to 

the Copernican system of Astronomy, . 418 
The reason I have not produced any J facts 
in regard to Astrology, is that Richard 

A . Proctor ignored them, 419 

Every science is gradually built up from 
facts which are gathered from observa- 
tion and experiment, 420 

Dr. Caldwell's remarks on Dr Salmon,.. 420 
Had Mr. Proctor been acquainted with any 
Astrologers, it no doubt would have 
changed his opinion on Astrology,.. . 421 

Dr. Cox and Homeopathy 421 

Mr. Proctor convicts himself, after being his 

own judge and jury, 422 

The influence of planets on the stature and 

build of individuals, 423 

The influence of the planets on happy and 

unhappy marriages, 423 

The change of opinion in regard to Astrology 
by the editors and persons connected 
with the New York World, since they 
published Proctor's " Humbug of As- 
trology," 424 

Herbert Spencer's epitaph on Proctor's 

tomb, 425 

To the Reader, 427 

Discussions in favor of Astrology and 

assertions against it, 429 

First: — arguments in favor of Astrology,. .. 4-9 

The Pastoral Letter, 431 

Second: — Assertions of those who oppose 

Astrology, 

Chambers in their ^Information for the 

People on Phrenology, 433 

Third: — Chambers's Encyclopedia on As- 
trology, 433 

John Partridge's Almanac published by the 

Missionary Society of London 433 

Changing of the opinion in regard to William 

Lilly and Astrology, in Encyclopedias,. 434 
Thomas Dickon the Absurdity of Astrology, 435 
Rev. Thomas Dick puffing Astrology...... 436 

Astrologers in Rome and their persecution, 438 
Penny Magazine's Refutation of Astrolagy, 439 
The ridiculous conclusions of the Penny 

Magazine, 44 1 

Quotations from a number of Astrological 

books proving it, 441 

The Author of the Penny Magazine and 

their Refutation of Astrology, 443 

The minister of the Gospel— remarks on the 

wickedness of Astrology, 444 

All the writings against Astrology are gen- 
erally shallow and nonsensical, 444 

Extracts from Francis Moore's almanac,. . 445 

The eclipses for 1768, 44° 

The impostor Dr. Roeback of Philadelphia, 452 
Death ot Amee Smith in the Hotel Victor, 

New York, 45? 

"Unparalleled outrages" against Astrology 

and Astrologers. W. H. Chaney 454 

" The Gospel of the Stars or the Wonders 

of Astrologv," Mr. James Hingston,.. 462 
Laying the corner stone of the School ot 

Theosophy, 4^4 

Rules for laying corner stones, 4°° 

Theosophists all Awrv, 467 

Picture of the Tower of Babel. 4^8 

Description of the Tower of Babel, 4°9 

Scientists all agree that Astrologv is a de- 
basing superstion, but they all disagree 

among themselves. 47° 

" Azrael " on the harmonv of all Astrologers, 471 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. XXV 



A GLOSSARY' OF ASTROLOGICAL TERMS. 

Affliction. A planet, or the cusp of a house, being in evil aspect to any planet, or in Con- 
lunction with a malefic. 

Airy Signs. Gemini, Libra and Aquarius. 

Ambient. The whole canopy of the heavens, when spoken of m a general way. 
Angles. The ist, 4th, 7th and ioth houses. . 

Application— to apply. These terms mean the approach of any planet to the body or aspect 
of another, or the cusp of any house. 

Atcewtial Difference. (A. D.) This, added to its right ascension (A. R.) if it have south 
declination but subtracted therefrom if it lias north declination, gives its oblique ascension. 

' Ascendant. The eastern horizon, or the cusp of that house which represents the party; as 
the cusp of the 5th is the ascendai t for a child of the querent. 

Ascending, a term denoting any planet or sign, which are between the 4th and ioth houses, 
more especiallv'when rising above the eastern horizon. 

Aspect The being placed at certain distances from a planet, or the cusp of a house, as, it 
Jupiter be 60 degrees from the Moon, then they are both said to be in sextile aspect to each other. 
Barren Signs. Gemini, Leo and Virgo. 

Bene/ics The two planets Jupiter and Venus, and sometimes Herschel. 
Bestial Signs. Aries, Taurus, Leo, Sagittarius, (the first half excepted) and Capricorn. 
Besieged h when a planet, fortunate bv nature, is situated between two malevolent planets 
as Venus "in 12 degrees of Cancer, Saturn in 15 degrees, and Herschel in 10 degrees of the same 
si<m • where she is in a state of "siege," and highly unfortunate. He whose significator it was 
would be denoted thereby to be in "a great strait," and particularly "hemmed in" or surrounded 
with ill fortune. 

Birorporeal Signs. Gemini, Sagittar.us and Pisces. 

Cadent. So called, because they are fallen from the angles. These are the weakest of all the 
houses. 

Cardinal Signs. Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn. _ 

CazimL The heart of the Sun, or being within 17 minutes of the exact longitude of the bun ; 
which is considered a strong position, but, we think, erroneously. 

Circle of Position. An astronomical term used in calculating the polar elevation of any 
planet. They are small circles bearing the same relation to a meridian circle which the paralells of 
latitude do to the equator . 

Collection of Light. In Horary questions when a planet receives the aspects of any two 
others which are not themselves in aspect. It denotes that the affair will be forwarded by a third 
person, described by that planet ; but not unless they both receive him in some of their dignities. 

Combustion, is when a planet is posited within 8 degrees 30 minutes of the Sun, either before 
or after the Sun's body. In horary questions, unless the Sun is chief significator, this is deemed 
unfortunate. The Moon is singularly weak when so elongated. 
Common Signs. Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces. 

Conjunction. Two planets being in the same longitude. If they be exactly in the same 
degree and minute, it is a partile conjunction, and very powerful ; if within the half of the sum of 
the ; r two orbs, it is a platic conjunction, and less powerful. 

Converse Motion. Is that which is caused by the diurnal rotation of the Earth on its axis, 
which makes the Sun, Moon, etc, appear to rise, approach the meridian, set, etc. It applies 
particularly to the Sun and Moon, when they are carried towards the promittors or their aspects. 
Culminate. To arrive at the midheaven, or the cusp of the ioth house. 

Cusp. The beginning of any house, and the cusp extends 5 degrees on each side of the line. 
Debilities. A pianet in a weak and afflicted position, as fall, detriment, etc. 
Declination. The distance any heavenly body is from the equator. 

Decreasing in Light. When any planet is past the opposition of the Sun, decreases in light ; 
this is a testimony of weakness. 

Decumibture. A lying down ; the figure erected for the time of any person being first taken 
ill, and taking to their bed. 

Degree The 30th part of a sign in the Zodiac ; or the 360th part of any circle. 
Descendant. The 7th house, or that space from the western horizon to one-third of the dis- 
tance towards the meridian above the earth. 

Descension. The going down of any body from the meridian above the Earth to that below 
it ; for though the Sun is lost sight of at sunset, he still descends till he reaches the anti-meridian 
at midnight. 

Detriment. The sign opposite the house of any planet : as Venus in Aries is in her detri- 
ment. In horary questions it is a sign of weakness, distress, etc. 

Direct. As applied to planets denotes their moving in the true order of the celestial signs, as 
from Aries to Taurus, etc. 

Direction- The measuring the space between the bodies of any two planets, or that between 
any two parts of the heavens, to ascertain at what period of life the promised effect will appear. 
Their distance is a certain number of degrees of the A R. of the Sun, which, when he has passed 
over the direction is complete It is called the Arc of Direction. 

Direction, Secondary The aspects formed by the Moon in the days immediately succeeding 
the birth. Each day between the birth and the time the aspect is formed is equal to one exact year 
of life; thus, if the Moon form a good aspect with Jupiter, exactly 21 days to the hour and minute 
after birth, the native will feel its effects about his 21st birthday. 

Direct Motion. This is in reality converse motion, but is so called to distinguish the case of 
the promittors being carried towards the bodies or aspects of the Sun or Moon, which directions 
are considered somewhat less powerful than those by converse motion. 



: unexpected. 

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also called a 



XXVI ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 

Diurnal Arc. Is the length of time that part of the heavens in which any planet is at birth 
above the Earth ; and it is usually measured by degrees. 

Dispose, Dispositor. A planet disposes of any other which may be found in its essential dig- 
nities. Tims, if the Sun is in Aries, the house of Mars, then Mars disposes of the Sun, and is 
said to rule, receive, or govern him. In horary questions when the dispositor of the planet signi- 
fying the thing asked after is himself disposed by the lord of the ascendant, it is a good sign. To 
dispose by house is the most powerful testimony ; then by exaltation, then triplicity, then term, and 
lastly, face, which is a very weak reception. 

Double-bodied Signs. Gemini, Sagittarius and Pisces. 

Dragon 's Head. Is the north node of the Moon, or when she crosses the ecliptic into north 
latitude. It is always a good symbol, denoting success, a good disposition, etc. 

Dragon's Tail. Is where the Moon crosses the ecliptic into south latitude, or her south node. 
It is very evil, and in all things the reverse of Dragon's Head ; it diminshes the power of good, 
and increases that of evil planets. 

Earthy Signs. Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn which form the earthy triplicity. 
Ephemeris. An almanac of the planets' places. The best is Raphael's Ephemeris. 
Equinoctial Signs. Aries and Libra. * 

Exaltation. An essential dignity, next in power to that of house. 
Face. The third part of a sign, or ten degrees deconate. 

Fall. A planet has its fall in the opposite sign to that in which it has its exaltation. In 

horary questions, a planet in its fall denotes a person unfortunate, despised, degenerated, inean, 

insolvent or helpless ; and the thing signified by it is in a helpless state, except some good aspect 

by application, or some translation of light happen, which wi'.l relieve it quite unexpected. 

Familiarity. Any kind of aspect or reception. 

Femi7iine Signs. Taurus, Cancer, Virgo, Libra, Capricorn and Pisces. 
Fiery Signs, or Fiery Triplicity. Aries, Leo and Sagittarius. 

Figure. The diagram which represents the heavens at any time ; it is also called a scheme 
or horoscope. 

Fortitudes. Influences of the planets made stronger by being well posited. 
Fortunes. Jupiter and Venus and the Sun ; Moon and Mercury, if aspecting them, and not 
afflicted, are considered fortunate planets. 

Fixed Signs- Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius. 
Fruitful Signs. Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces. 

Frustration. The cutting off, or preventing anything shown by one aspect by means of 
another. Thus, if Venus, lady of the ascendant, were hastening to the trine of Mars, lord of the 
7th in a question of marriage, it might denote that the marriage would take place ; but if Mercury 
were to form an opposition to Mars before Venus reached her trine of that planet, it would be a 
frustration, and would show that the hopes of the querent would be cut off; if Mercury were 
lord of the 12th it might denote that it would be done by a secret enemy, if of the 3d by means of 
a relation, etc. 

Geuiture. The moment of time an infant is brought into the world. 

Horary Question. So named t from the Latin word liora, an hour, because the time of their 
being asked is noted, and the chart of the heavens for that time is taken to judge of the result. 

Horoscope. The ascendant is sometimes so called ; but it is more generally a term for the 
figure of the heavens used by Astrologers for predicting by nativities, mundane Astrology, and 
horary questions. 

Houses. The twelve divisions or compartments into which the circle of the heavens is divided ; 
also the signs in which any planet is said to have most influence. 

Hutna/ftSigus. Gemini, Virgo, Aquarius, and the first half of Sagittarius. Any person's 
significator therein shows them to be of a human disposition. 
Hyleg. Sun, Moon or the ascendant is the giver of life. 

Hylegiacal Places. The 1st house, from 5 degrees above to 25 degrees below its cusp ; 7th 
house, from 5 degrees below to 25 degrees above its cusp; the 9th house, from 5 degrees outside 
its cusp to 25 degrees below the nth house. If the Sun is in any of those places it is "hyleg ; '' if 
not, then if the Moon is injany of these places it is" hyleg," if it is not, then the ascendant is "hyleg." 
Impedited. This signifies being afflicted by evil planets. The Moon is impedited in the highest 
degree when in conjunction with the Sun. 

Ingress. A planet's transit over a place, the Sun, Moon, mid-heaven or ascendant, or has 
arrived at any point in the Zodiac. , • , . 

Increase in Light. When any planet is leaving the Sun, and is not yet arrived at the oppo- 
sition ; after which it decreases in fight- The former is a good, the latter an evil testimony, 
especially as regards the Moon. 

Increasing in Motion. When any planet moves faster than it did on the preceding day. 
Inferior Planets. Venus, Mercury, and the Moon ; so called because their orbit is inferior 
to that" of the Enrth. 

Infort. ?. Uranus, Saturn and Mars ; also Mercury when he is much afflicted. 
Intercepted. A sign which is found between the cusps of two houses, and not on either ot 
them. 

Joined to. Being in any aspect. . 

Latitude. The distance any star, etc., is north or south of the ecliptic 1 he Sun never has 
any latitude. Latitude on the earth is the distance any place is north or south of the equator. 
Lights. The Sun and Moon. 

Light of Time. The Sun by day and the Moon by night. 

Longitude. On the Earth is the distance from any place east or west of Greenwich, England; 
in the heavens, it is the distance of any body from the first point of the Zodiac, Aries, o degrees 
o minutes, measured on the ecliptic. 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. XXVII 

Lords Planets which have the most influence or powerful effects in particular signs. Thus, 
if Aries ascend in any chart, Mars, which rules that sign, is the lord of the ascendant. 

Lunation. The conjunction, square or opposition of the Sun and Moon, also the length of 
time in which the Moon appears to move around the Earth ; the time from new Moon to new Moon. 

Malefics. Uranus, Saturn and Mars. . . 

Malefic Aspects are the Semisquare, Square, Sesquisquare, Opposition and Conjunction of 
evil planets. When planets are found at the distances which constitute these aspects, they act 
very evil for the native. % 

Masculine and Feminine. Saturn. Jupiter, Mars and Sun are masculine, and Venus and 
Moon are feminine. Mercury is masculine or feminine according as he aspects the former or the 

Masculine Signs. Aries, Gemini, Leo, Libra, Sagittary and Aquarius. The others are 
feminine- . , . .,.,,., ^ 

Matutine. Appearing in the morning ; that is, those stars or planets winch rise before the San. 
' Mean Motion. That of Saturn is 2 minutes ; Jupiter, 4 minutes 59 seconds ; Mars, 33 min- 
utes 28 seconds; the Sun, 59 minutes 8 seconds; and Moon 13 degrees 10 minutes. 
Mundane Parallels are equal distances from the meridian. 

Nativity. The birth of any one. It is the instant that the infant first draws breadth. It also 
signifies the map of the heavens at that instant. 

Nebulce. Clusters of stars that look like clouds. 
Neomenium. The new Moon or change of the Moon. 

Nocturnal Arc. The space through which any body in the heavens passes while under the 
horizon. 

Northern Signs. Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo and Virgo. 

Oblique Ascension. A part of the equator that rises in an oblique sphere, when one pole is 
elevated and the other depressed. . 

Oblique Sphere. One in which all circles parallel to the equator are oblique to the horizon, 
and form acute angles with it. 
Occidental. Western. 

Orb of a Planet. The distance within which a planet continues to operate. The orbs are 
Saturn 9 degrees, Jupiter 12 degrees, Mars 7 degrees 30 minutes, Sun 17 degrees, Venus 8 degrees, 
Mercury 7 degrees, the Moon 12 degrees. The orb of the fixed signs is 5 degrees. The angles also 
are effected bv any star or planet within 5 degrees of the cusp. 

Oriental- Eastern. If a star is to the east of the M. C., it is oriental ; if otherwise, it is 
occidental. But the Sun is said to be oriental only when he is applying to or approaching the 
meridian, and occidental when leaving it. 

Parallels. The zodiacal parallel signifies having the same declination or distance from the 
equator, north or south. This is a very potent familiarity. 

Parents. The Sun and Saturn signify the father. The Moon and Venus signify the mother. 
Their condition is shown by the strength and condition of these in the native's nativity. 
Partile. An exact or perfect aspect agreeing to the very minute. 

Part of Fortune. The point in the heavens which is equally distant from the ascendant as 
the Moon is from the Sun in longitude. 

Perigee. The part of a planet's orbit where it is nearest to the Earth. 

Peregrine- A peregrine planet is one having no kind of essential dignity. He usually signi- 
fies a thief in all questions of theft. 

Periodical Lunation. The time required by the Moon to return to her own place, viz., 27 
' days 7 hours and 41 minutes. 

Planets- These are Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury Moon and Uranus. We 
may now say Neptune also. The asteroids we do not consider. 

Planetary Hours. Hours ruled by the planets. These hours are counted from lhe outward 
planet Saturn inward to the Moon. The hours of the day are counted from sunrise to sunset and 
of the night from sunset to sunrise. 

Platic. This means wide It is used to signify some aspect within half the sum of the orbs 
of the two bodies or planets. 

Promissor. The planet which promises to produce the event. The planet applying to the 
significator, or to which the latter applies. In nativities that planet to which the Sun, Moon, 
M C-, or the ascendant applies is the promissor, they being significators. 

Proper Motion. That which is direct through the Zodiac, in contradiction to the mundane 
motion, or that caused by the daily rotation of the earth on its axis. 
Prorogator. The planet which upholds life. 

Quartile. The square aspect of 90 degrees in the Zodiac; and of three houses in the map or 
figure of the heavens. 

Querent. The person who enquires or asks a horary question. 
Quesited. The thing or person enquired about. 
Quintile. An aspect of 72 degrees, not very potent. 
Radical. That which belongs to the radix or figure of the birth. 

Radical Elections. Times chosen or elected for commencing undertakings. They chiefly 
depend on the aspects then forming to the Sun, Moon, M. C. or ascendant at birth. Thus if 
Jupiter is on the ascendant, or in trine thereto, it is a good time to elect for any change to restore 
health. 

Rapt Motion. The daily motion of the heaven6 from east to west. 

Rapt Parallels. Equal distances from the meridian formed by rapt motion and measured by 
the semi-arcs of the bodies moved. 

Rays. Beams of influence, constituting aspects. 

Reception. The disposing of one planet by another, in consequence of receiv'ng it into its 
dignities. 



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Rectification. The discovery of the true moment of the birth by comparing the periods of 
events in iife with the aspects chat produce them. 

Refranation. Is when two planets are approaching an aspect, one of them falls retrograde 
before the aspect is complete. This shows that the event promised by the aspect will come to 
nothing. 

Retrograde. When a planet appears to move backward, or contrary to the regular order of the 
signs, it shows that nothing promised by that planet can be relied upon. In nativities it shows that 
the planet will do very little or no good by his aspects, unless he is otherwise extremely well dig- 
nified, etc. 

Revolutions. The return of the Sun to its place at birth. The aspects then formed, especially 
those to the radical places, denote the general influences during the year. 

Right Ascension. An arc of the equator, reckoned from the first point of Aries. 
Right Distance. The distance of any point from another, measured by right ascension. 
Right Sphere. One in which all the circles are parallel to the equator form right angles with 
the horizon. 

Satellites. Minor bodies which move about others; as the Moon above the Earth. 
Scheme. A map of the heavens. 
Semi-arc. Haifa diurnal or nocturnal arc. 

Semi-quartile- A half a square, or half of 90 degrees ; viz., 45 degrees. It is an evil aspect. 
Separation, When two planets having been in partile aspect to each other begin to move 
away therefrom. If all the significators are separating in a question of marriage, it shows that no 
marriage will occur. So in other things. 

Sesqui-square. A square and a half, or 135 degrees. It is evil, but less potent than a square. 
Siguificaior. The planet ruling the ascendant is always the significator of the querent. 
Signs of Long Ascension. Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio and Sagittary. 
Signs of Short Ascension. Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces, Aries, Taurus, Gemini. 
Southern Signs. Libra, Scorpio, Sagittary, Capricorn and Pisces; they being to the south of 
the equator. 

Speculum. A table comprising the chief data from which directions are to be worked or cal- 
culated in a nativity. It contains the latitude, declination, ri^ht ascension, meridian distance (in 
right ascension) and semi arc of each planet. 

Stationary. When a planet appears to stand still in the heavens in consequence of the earth's 
motion being different from the planet's motion. 

Succedent. Those houses which follow the angles. They are the second, fifth, eighth and 
eleventh. 

Superior Planets. Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars. 

Sympathy. Where the significator in one nativity, is in the same place in the Zodiac that it 
is in another nativity, then there is a mutual sympathy found between those persons. The 
strongest is where the Sun in one nativity is on the place of the Moon in another; if the Moon 
is found in the same position in each nativity, it causes love between the sexes, and a feeling of 
sympathy between those of the same sex. If the two ascendants are opposed, or if an evil pianei 
in one nativity is on the place of the Sun or Moon 111 another, there is no sympathy and possibly 
antipathy or hatred. If all the planets agree or are in good aspect in two nativities, there is a very 
strong sympathy, which generally lasts until death ; and in the case of a male and female causes 
" Love at first sight." 

Table 0/ Houses. A table giving the longitude of the signs for each house. 
Term. An essential dignity, less potent than any other except the face. 

Testimony. Any aspect, or position of a significator in a horary question, bearing on the* 
matter K -' li^'iiff in coiifivi'vation with some other significator. In nativities, tlie positions of the 
the Sun, Moon, M.C., and ascendant, are testimonies ot good or evil to 
the n 

The passa.-es of the planets over the places of the Sun, Moon, M.C., or ascendant, 

• 

Tru. When one planet separates from the conjunction or aspect of another, 

nction or aspect with a third, he is said to translate the light of the one 

he leave: he approaches. It denotes aid or assistance in bringing some mattei 

to a concl lescribed by the planet so translating the light. 

Travelling. The luminaries, or Mars, falling away from the angles, chiefly if into the ninth 
house, cause travelling. This will be more so if the Moon aspect Mercury, and they are in move- 
able signs. 

Trigons. ai ! 'ie four triplicities, viz.: Fiery, Aries, Leo. Sagittary ; Earthy, Taurus, 

'■'rgo. Capri mini. Libra, Aquarius; Watery, Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces. 

Triplicity. See 7 - '• 
^"■^■ftirnl Signs. Cai x and Capricorn. 

Underthe Sunbeams. Within 17 degrees of the Sun. A planet so situated is weak, but 
more so if coml • within 8 degrees 30 minutes. 

Void When planets form no aspect before they leave the sign. It is noticed 

chiefly Mot 1 in horary questions. It usually shows that nothing will come of the 

mattei n. It oftei shows that the question is not radical. 

Zenith. The point exactly over head. 

Zodiac. The belt of the heavens, in which the Sun and all the old planets move. 
Zodiacal Aspects. 1 se aspects, or angles, in the heavens, measured by the degrees of the 
Zodiac See Aspects. 

Zodiacal Paralell' ic parallels of declination, or points in the heavens at equal distances 

iie equator. These h-;ve great and lasting power in nativities, especially when formed at the 
birth. 



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INTRODUCTION. 



Astrology is taken from the two Greek words, Astron, a star, or con- 
stellation of stars, and Logus, a discourse; meaning a discourse on 
the influence of the stars. 

Astronomy is from Astron, a star or constellation of stars, and Nomos, 
law, meaning the knowledge or science of the laws of the stars. In for- 
mer ages astrology and astronomy were twin sciences and astronomy was 
studied solely for astrologers to make astrological predictions. Indeed, 
the priest, physician, the astronomer and the astrologer were generally 
one and the same person, and the priest and the physician spent as much 
time in studying astrology and astronomy, as they did in studying 
theology and the science of medicine. [Further on I expect to prove 
that both theology and medicine are offsprings of astrology.] 

But as science and learning advanced, it gradually became too labo- 

for any one man to be proficient in all the four sciences or professions, 

n the course of ages they became separated, and one man studied 

trology, another astronomy, another medicine, and another studied to 

a priest, and as it often happens that when neighbors or relations fall 

they become the bitterest enemies, and as the astrologers were 

j, in olden times, at the head of these professions, or " the power 

b 'id the tn.rone," and controlled or guided the kings, emperors 

Pharoahs, the other three professions became jealous and com- 

i against the astrologer, and have done everything possible to 

■ him and destroy his science and profession. 

at the present day the students of medicine in some parts of 
the world, such as Thibet and other countries, spend nine years in 
the study of medicine, the last three they spend altogether in the 
study of astrology as they deem that the most important or essential 
part of medicine, hence they study it the last, after having mastered or 
hrough studying the elementary branches, such as anatomy, physi- 
ology, chemistry, materia medica, etc. 

Dr. Lambert of London, England, has lately published a book 
tHe practke of medicine, and in it attempts to prove the great 
advancement that science has made within the last 200 years, and gives 
illustration,, that formerly when a student came up for his final 
examii ation previous to getting his diploma, he was generally asked the 
fc ing question : " If you are called to the bedside of a sick person, 
where would you lock for the disease ? " The student is made to answer: 
11 In the sixth kouse." in the latter part of this Elements of Astrol- 



6 ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 

ogy, I shall treat more especially on the science of medicine and 
astrology, and shall often have occasion to refer to the sixth house. 

It may be news to the reader to learn that Doctor Saunder, of 
London, England, published a large volume on the " sixth house," and 
William Lilly, the celebrated Astrologer, wrote the introduction to it. 

I shall endeavor to prove that the old school physicians,or what are called 
the allopaths, on account of not giving attention to the sixth house, and 
by their method of treating diseases, actually destroy over 100,000 people 
every year in the United States alone. But more on this subject after- 
wards. 

It is just about fifty years since my special attention was drawn to 
the science of astrology, and I made up my mind to study that science, 
cost what it would in labor or time. 

I may here state that I was brought up in the atmosphere of astrol- 
ogy and kindred sciences, as my father, grandfather and relations for 
several generations had all given attention to these subjects, and were 
adepts in tkem. 

My father did not practice astrology for a living, but he had a num 
ber of friends who came to consult him and ask his advice. I v 
in the room when he was giving such advice, and was very much in- 
terested in what was going on, and in the manner he read the horoscopes. 
My eldest brother studied astology, and had a large practice, and be- 
came an expert. 

For reasons which I need not mention, my brother when he was 
about three weeks old was removed to my father's sister's, and he never 
afterwards lived at home, consequently he knew little of m; 
life. 

One time on a visit to my aunt's my brother offered to read my 
horoscope, and after giving him my time of birth he made a map 
heavens and read it off in such a manner and with such accuracy of 
detail, that, to put it mildly, I was astonished. From that tirm I made 
up my mind that I would study the science at any cost. 

The system of astrology that I shall call the reader's attend 
the Egyptian system, which was taught and practiced by ( laudiul 
Ptolemy (the great Egyptian astrologer and astronomer), in I s work 
called " Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos " or Four Books of A strology. Claud- 
ius Ptolemy lived about 2,000 years ago. He collected and published 
all that was then known on that science. He also published a book on 
astronomy called "The Ptolemaic Astronomy," which system has, 
since the invention of the telescope, been exploded, and the 
can system of astronomy now prevails at the present day. psmy's 

two books, the one on astrology, and the other on astronomy 1 e often 
bound in one volume. In those days and long before navigation had 
become a science, those two sciences (astronomv and astrolc 
alwavs closelv associated, and but few persons studied ^ astrononn except 
those who studied astrologv, with the sole view of m iking predictions. 

When Ptolemv's system of astronomy was exploded it wa - en for 
granted by ignorant persons that his system of asl ologj also ex- 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. J 

ploded, which idea is altogether erroneous. Ptolemy also published a 
Geography, but it was not exploded any more than his system of as- 
trology, and both his geography and astrology are studied even to the 
present day. 

Besides Ptolemy's system of astrology there is also an Arabian sys- 
tem which I have given some attention to, and the Chinese astrology, 
which I have not been able to investigate, as it has not been translated 
into the English language, that I am aware of. 

Ptolemy's Four Books on Astrology are to the European and American 
student what the Bible is to the student of Christian Theology, conse- 
quently we have had a great number of translations of " Ptolemy's 
Tetrabiblos." I have some six or eight translations myself; for instance, 
Sibley's, Whalley's, Wilson's, Ashmand's, Coopers's, Worsdale's, and 
a few others that I cannot bring to mind. In short, when a person suc- 
ceeded in studying astrology, and also had a knowledge of the Greek 
language, he must needs commence the translation of " Ptolemy's Tetra- 
biblos," similar to a person who is excelling as a painter, in order to 
become celebrated, he must paint a Madonna ; also a person ex- 
celling in the Greek and Hebrew language, if he is a devout Christian, 
thinks he must commence translating the Bible, hence, there -are many 
translations of the Bible and many Madonnas. Ashmand's translation of 
Ptolemy is counted the most perfect by English astrologers, and I think I 
cannot do better than give a short extract from his preface to the trans- 
lation of Ptolemy. Ashmand says on page 5 : — 

" Of all sciences which have at any time engaged the attention of man, 
there is not one, the real or assumed principles of which are less generally 
known in the present age, than those of astrology. Out of a thousand per- 
sons who now treat the mention of this ancient science with supercilious 
ridicule, there is scarcely one who knows distinctly what it is he laughs at. 
Such contented ignorance, in persons, too, sufficiently informed in other 
respects, is the more extraordinary, since astrology has maintained a most 
conspicuous part throughout the history of the world, even until compara- 
tively recent days. In the East, where it first arose, at a period of very re- 
mote antiquity, it still even now holds sway. In Europe and in every part of 
the world, where learning had impressed the human soil, astrology reigned 
supreme until the middle of the seventeenth century. It entered into the 
councils of princes, it guided the policy of nations, it ruled the daily actions 
of individuals, and physicians who were not well versed in this science were 
not deemed competent to practice their profession. All this is attested by the 
records of every nation which has a history." 

In the brief history of astrology which I present to the reader, I have 
endeavored to be as impartial and as unbiassed as possible. He will 
find extracts from both the works of the enemies of astrology and as- 
trologers, and also extracts from those authors who have written favorably 
on that subject. 

Solomon in his Proverbs, says : u Let thy neighbor praise thee, yea, 
a stranger, and not thine own self." This advice of Solomon, I think, 
is without sense or reason, because a stranger could have very little 
knowledge of the party he intended to praise, and in so praising, it 
could only be called flattery or appealing to one's vanity. If Solomon 



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had said : " Let thy neighbor praise thee, yea, thine enemy and not 
thine ownself," he would have spoken to the point, and more sensible 
than in the above Proverb. When an enemy praises either a science or 
an individual, ic is evident that there must be some good or truth in that 
science or that person. 

I shall commence by naming the authors who have written the most 
savagely against astrology. They are the Rev. Thomas Dick, of Eng- 
land, and the late Richard A. Proctor, also of England, and William and 
Robert Chambers, of Scotland. I shall quote from each of these au- 
thors as they are printed in their works. I might here state that it 
would have been much pleasanter for me, not to have had to refer to 
the enemies of astrology in any form or manner, but only to have 
written a book explaining its principles, and the best and easiest method 
of learning and practising that science. But astrologers have been so 
persecuted and imprisoned, and often put to death, in all Christian 
countries, that I think it is nothing but right that I should draw the 
reader's attention to the fact that astrology still continues to exist as 
a science, in spite of all those persecutions and imprisonments of its 
professors, whieh proves beyond a question, that there is truth in the 
science. Had any other profession met with the same amount of perse- 
cution, the professors who practised it would have been crushed or 
exterminated ages ago ; although there might have been some little truth 
in those so-called sciences which those professors practised or followed. 

Whenever the time arrives when the science of astrology shall be- 
come well known and understood, similar to arithmetic and astronomy, 
then all the persecutors will disappear, or at least they will be so ashamed 
of themselves, that they will be afraid to open their mouths, for fear of be- 
ing held up to public scorn and ridicule, similar to what we should 
regard a person at the present day who can neither read nor write, and 
cannot tell the time of day when looking at the hands on the face of a 
clock or watch that keep correct time. If these ignorant persons should 
commence to persecute and imprison all those who can read and write, 
or can tell the hour and minute of the day by looking at the face of a 
clock they would then place themselves in the same position as the per- 
secutors of astrology, and those persecutors being at the same time igno- 
rant of that science. 

A BRIEF HISTORY OF ASTROLOGY, BY ITS FRIENDS 
OR ADVOCATES. 

In tracing the antiquity of astrology, we are directed back to the re- 
motest periods on record. The Jewish historian, Josephus, who wrote 
nearly two thousand years ago, asserts that the Antediluvians were ac- 
quainted with astrology, and the same author states that it was understood 
bv Seth, who was taught the science by Adam, his father; so that by taking 
this authority, we are carried back for the commencement of this knowl- 
edge to our first parents. Josephus further states that Seth, foreseeing 
the flood, in order to preserve a knowledge of this science to posterity, 
engraved the rudiments thereof upon two permanent pillars of stone, 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 9 

which endured through many generations, and were not entirely effaced 
till some time after the deluge. We are also told by the same au- 
thority, that the science w?s taught by Enos and Noah, who preserved 
it to the days of Abrahan, who extended the knowledge of it by divine 
aid, teaching it to the Chaldeans and Egyptians. Joseph also patronized 
and taught it in Egypt ; and Origen, Diodorus Siculus, and other ancient 
historians, supposed him to have been the author of an astrological work 
called: " The Aphorisms of Hermes the Egyptian." 

The prophets and seers acquired a knowledge of this science from 
Moses, and it was afterwards taught among the tribe of Issachar, who are 
on that account, called in Scripture, " Men who had understanding in 
the times," and were expert in resolving all questions concerning futu- 
rity, and as this tribe were neither priests nor Levites, nor endowed with 
the spirit of prophecy, it follows that their understanding in the times, 
and the ability in foretelling future events, arose entirely from an ac- 
quired knowledge of the signs and influences of the heavenly bodies. 
The Persian astrologers were called Magi, or wise men, who were skilled 
in the times ; and the Chaldeans termed their astrologers men skilled in 
wisdom and cunning sciences, who learned the learning of the Chaldeans. 
And after their method of studying their science of astrology, Daniel, Shad- 
rach, Meshech and Abednego were instructed, by their tutor, Melzer, 
and became ten times more learned in all matters of wisdom and under- 
standing than all the astrologers of the realm, in consideration of which, 
they were elected members of the public schools of Babylon, which were 
founded for the study of this science ; and Daniel was made by the 
king's decree master over all the Chaldean astrologers. 

It was a common custom in the days of Samuel, to go to the seers 
or men of understanding in the times, to be informed concerning future 
contingencies and other matters, and we find Saul consenting to the 
proposal of his servant, to go to the seer and inquire respecting the 
strayed asses of Kish, Saul's father, which they were sent out in search of. 
Also we find that David when in Keilah, having heard that Saul was 
coming to beseech him, was desirous of knowing the truth of the matter 
and if he were coming as reported ; and whether the men of Keilah 
would be true to him, or would betray him, and being informed they 
would betray him into the hands of the enemy, who were seeking 
his life, he fled into the wilderness of Kiph, and escaped the danger 
impending over him. 

Space will not permit detailing minutely the progress of astrology 
in Egypt, Babylon, Persia, Greece, Arabia, China, India and the 
nations of Europe ; we must therefore content ourselves with a few 
particulars. The first Egyptian astrologer of importance was Hermes, 
who lived at a period anterior to Moses. Dr. Cudworth observes that 
beyond doubt there was among the Egvptians such a man as Thoth, 
Theuth or Tauth, who was called the first Hermes, who together with 
letters, was the inventor of arts and sciences, as arithmetic, geometrv, 
astronomy, and of the hieroglyphic learning. The Egyptians also had 
among them another eminent advancer or restorer of learning who was 



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called the second Hermes, who composed books on several arts and 
sciences, which books were said to be carefully preserved by the priests 
in the inmost recesses of the temples. The same author observes that 
in the religious processions of the Egyptians the precentor goes first, 
carrying two of the books of Hermes with him. After him follows the 
Horoscopus, who is particularly instructed in astrological books, which 
are four. These four books might have been the Tetrabiblos of Clau- 
dius Ptolemy, before mentioned, and which are studied at the present 
day. 

Diodorus informs us that the " Chaldeans in Babylon, were a colony 
of the Egyptians, and they became famous for astrology, having learned 
it from the priests of Egypt." 

In Persia, the names of Zoroaster and Gjamasp stand on record as 
eminent astrologers; the former lived about 520 years before Christ, 
and the latter in the reign of King Gushtasp. 

In Greece flourished the famous astrologer, Anaximander, who was 
born 610 years before Christ; also Anaxagoras, Thales, Euripides, 
Socrates and Pericles ; after these, followed Pythagoras, Plato, Porphyry, 
Aristotle, Proclus, Conon, Democritus, Hippocrates and other famous 
astrologers too numerous to particularize here. 

In Rome, we find Virgil, Cicero, Prepertius, Macrobius, Horace and 
Gellius, as devoting themselves to the study of astrology; also Manillas, 
whose astrological treatise is still extant. The " Universal History" 
also mentions some learned men among the Arabians, who studied and 
wrote on this science. Among Europeans, may be mentioned Cornelius 
Agrippa, Jerom, Cardan, and Placidus de Titus. In the fifteenth cen- 
tury, Regiomontanus published his " Ephemerides " for astrological 
purposes, containing the planets, longitudes, aspects, etc., for thirty 
years, and so eager were persons of all nations to obtain this work, that 
all the copies were soon bought up at the price of twelve Hungarian 
pieces of gold each. 

In the English nation, if we go back to the learned men of former 
days, we find them all consenting to the belief in planetary influence. 
We may commence with the noted astrologer, Oliver, of Malmsbury, in 
the year 1060 ; and near to him, Herbert, of Lorraine, 1095 ; John, of 
Hexam and Simeon, of Durham; Aegidius of St. Albans, Roger Bacon, 
Robert Grouthead, John Holyhood, Michael Scot, Duns Scotus, Wil- 
liam Grizaunt, Clinton Langley, John Killingsworth, Geoffrey Chaucer, 
John Waller, the Duke of Gloucester, Robert Recorde, and many 
others. 

In the seventeenth century, may be noticed the names of Dr. Mead, 
Blagrave, Flamstead, Ramsey, Dr. Goad, Partridge, Elias Ashmole, 
William Lilly, John Gadbury, Richard Ball, Dr. Saunders, Dr. Dee the 
physician to gueen Elizabeth, and numbers of others who were famous 
for their learning and knowledge of astrologv. During this period the 
science of the stars shone forth in the refulgent splendor of a noonday 
sun, and again its grandeur declined before the baneful influence of 
prejudice, and scepticism which caused cruel and unjust laws to be 



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enacted to suppress it, which laws have continued their effect till the latter 
part of the present century. But the discerning public are now beginning 
to reason on the subject, and say that these learned, great, and good 
men, whom we have here enumerated, could not have all been deluded, 
but that they must have had sufficient grounds to have supported their 
belief, and which the writings, calculations and experiences of astrologers 
of the present period daily prove. 

No other science that I am aware of has such an honorable and 
ancient record as that of astrology. Even if we except that part of the 
history of the Jews, by Josephus, where he says that God taught Adam 
astrology by inspiration, and Adam taught his son, Seth, yet there is 
enough left of the history of the Jews and of astrology to show that 
the science originated at a very early period in the history of mankind ; 
not only that, but astrology has an honorable history in everv nation or 
race of people on the face of the earth that has attained any degree 
of civilization. Even the enemies of astrology cannot deny that fact. 
In the above short sketch of the history of astrology, I have only given 
the account of that science as published by persons who were not 
prejudiced against it, but even in giving the history of astrology as pub- 
lished by its most bitter enemies, the reader will be astonished at the 
amount of praise given to it, although they have tried to say everything 
they could against it and its professors ; yet in spite of their enmity, it 
has been impossible for them to speak the truth and not praise it ; 
and really their praise is more worthy of notice than the unbiassed his- 
tory of the science that we have from the astrologers themselves, or its 
historians who have lived in almost all ages and in every nation, since 
civilization began. If our enemies praise us, there must be some truth 
in their praise, or they would not bestow it. 

In the remainder of this history of that science, I shall quote only 
from persons who have written against it, and who have done every- 
thing possible to crush it, either by fair means or foul. I shall now let 
the enemies of astrology speak for themselves on this subject. 

The first author I shall refer to, is the late Richard A. Proctor, of 
England, who became quite noted on account of his popular lectures on 
astronomy. Probably no author has been so bitter against astrology, or 
appeared to be more afflicted with that peculiar disease which might be 
termed astrophobia. Once I heard him lecture on astronomy in Chicker- 
ing Hall, New York. He there stated, that even if we could predict 
epidemics of diseases, plagues, earthquakes, etc., bv the aid of astronomy, 
it would degrade that science to do so. For my part, I cannot under- 
stand how a science or human beings can be degraded by being useful 
in warding off or in any way mitigating those fatal epidemics or 
calamities which often afflict the human race. 

After the New York World had succeeded in having John De 
Leon, an astrologer, sent to Sing Sing for fifteen years, in order to jus- 
tify itself in the eyes of the public, it employed Richard A. 
Proctor to write an article on the " Humbug of Astrology," which 
was published in the New York World, on Sunday, Feb. 6, 1887. 
In that article he gives a 



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and says : 

"Can it be (many have said tome), that all the wise men of past ages, those 
to whom we attribute so many of the beliefs that to this day we hold sacred, 
can in this matter of astrology have been wholly decived ? Not only among 
all the leading races of antiquity, and in all the chief civilized nations, but 
during periods of time such as no other faith can boast of having swayed, 
men held firmly to the belief that the stars in their courses foretell, nay rule 
the fortunes of men. The cuneiform inscriptions of Assyria, the hieroglyphs 
of Egypt, the most ancient records of Persia, India and China agree 
in showing that of old, all men believed the sun and moon, the planets and 
the stars to be as 'Radiant Mercuries, carrying through ether in perpetual 
ound decrees and resolutions of the gods.' Nay, throughont the long 
period, to be measured by thousands of years, when all men held this belief, 
the most part held --what anciently had been the belief of all, that the 
sun and moon and all the host of heaven are not meiely the exponents of 
the will of the gods, but are actually as gods themselves. To this day, are 
not only all languages permeated by the expressions belonging to the old 
astrological teachings, but all the feasts and fasts of the religions of our age, 
purified though they have been from Sabaistic beliefs, attest in the clearest 
way, to the astronomer, their origin in Sabaistic observances. To this day 
Christians and Jews, Buddhists and Mahommedans, regulate their yearly 
ceremonials by the solstices and equinoctial passages of the sun, and the 
weekly renewals of religious observances were derived originally from the 
moon's motions, and were determined by the moon, 'when new' in her 
first quarter, 'full' in her third quarter, and 'new 1 again. Among 
the Jews and Mahommedans, indeed, the * new moon ' observances and 
those which formerly attended the rising and setting of the sun, are still re- 
tained. Astrology, the outcome of those Sabaistic beliefs which were once 
•universally prevalent, had a most respectable origin, and if common opinion 
could prove any doctrine just, astrology it seems should have been based on 
truth. Why then should it now be held only worthy of belief by the igno- 
rant and silly and be maintained as true only by rogues and charlatans?" 

If it be true, as Mr. Proctor states, and those statements can be 
verified by the history of nearly all civilized nations, in all past ages, 
that in ancient times all the learned men studied, and all were 
believers, in astrology — so much so, that even at the present day, all 
languages are permeated by old astrological teachings, — it appears to 
me a very bold assertion for Mr. Proctor to make, and without a par- 
ticle of proof, when he says that " belief in astrology now is only 
maintained by the ignorant and silly, and the rogues and charlatans." 

In the latter part of this volume, I shall bring enough facts to prove 
to any reasonable mind, that " it is only the ignorant and silly, the 
rogues and charlatans," who do not believe in astrology except 
in a few cases similar to Trilby before she met Svengali, and was hyp- 
notized, she being tune-deaf, and therefore could not enjoy harmony or 
music. There are also others who cannot enjoy the beauties of nature 
on account of being what is termed color-blind. But 1 shall refer to this 
subject in the latter part of this volume, and will only add here, that 
it is not good reasoning or good law for any person to say that because 
he is blind all others who can see ought to be sent to prison, or because 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. I3 

he is deaf that all who say they can hear are ignorant and silly, or rogues 
or charlatans, and yet this is Professor Proctor's logic and law, and I 
defy any one to prove the contrary. It is this kind of reasoning and 
law that has often caused our judges and juries to fill our prisons with 
convicts. 

I shall now illustrate what Mr. Proctor means when he says that 
throughout the long period, to be measured by thousands of years, when 
all men held this belief, that the most part held what anciently had been 
the belief of all, and which was not only proved by the cuneiform in- 
scriptions of Assyria, the hieroglyphs of Egypt, the most ancient records 
of Persia, India and China, all agreeing in showing that of old all men 
believed the Sun, Moon, the planets and stars "ruled the fortunes of men." 

In addition to the above statements, all of which are true to the let- 
ter, we have a remarkable illustration in the names of the days of the 
week, and the hours of the day, which have been adopted by almost 
every civilized nation. There are but few people at the present day 
who know how we came to call the days of the week by the names 
that are given them, and why they came to be so named, and why we 
have seven and not any other number, and why they run in the present 
order — Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 
and Saturday. Some people might think that if they had been named 
after the planets they would be named in the order that the planets 
run. That is, counting from the outer planet Saturn, then Jupiter, 
Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury and the Moon ; or, in other words, they 
would have run Saturday, Thursday, Tuesday, Sunday, Friday, Wed- 
nesday and Monday. 

In order to make the reader understand the principles of the arrange- 
ments of the days of the week, I will state that we have the twelve 
hours of the day and the twelve hours of the night from the twelve signs 
of the Zodiac; in short, twelve was reconized as a sacred number by 
the ancients ; even Christ had his twelve apostles. Formerly the hours 
were reconed from sunrise to sunset, instead of 12 o'clock midnight to 
12 o'clock midnight, but that was during the time when most of the 
civilized people dwelt near the equator, and the days and nights in those 
parts are nearly of equal length all the year round. But afterwards 
when people began to migrate to both the northern and southern lati- 
tudes and to settle there, they reckoned the hours from the middle of the 
day, or when the sun arrives in the midheaven or highest point to the 
middle of the night, or when the sun is at the lowest point, the days 
varying so in length in the higher latitudes that the people could not 
measure time so accurately by the rising or setting of the sun. The an- 
cients not only allotted a planet to rule or govern each day in the week, 
but a particular planet also ruled or was alloted to each hour of the day, 
and those hours were called planetary hours and were numbered or 
recorded from the outer planet Saturn, inward to Jupiter, Mars, Sun, 
Venus, Mercury and the Moon. 

What is termed the planetary hour is the unit by which the names 
of the days of the week are controlled or regulated, or, in other words, 



14 ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 

it is the unit which causes the first day to be Sunday, second Monday, 
third Mars' day, fourth Mercury's day, fifth Jupiter's day, sixth Venus' 
day, and the seventh Saturn's day. The ancients allotted or gave the 
first day to the Sun, and the hour that commenced that dav, count- 
ing from sunrise, was allotted to that luminary ; the second hour to 
the planet Venus, the third hour to Mercury, the fourth hour to the 
Moon, etc. It is not to be wondered at that in very ancient times, or 
rather in the prehistoric period, the people recognized the Sun as the 
cause of all earthly blessings, such as light, heat, and the cause of the 
growth of plants, fruit and grain of every kind which nourishes animals 
and man ; that those ancient people should have allotted the first day 
of the week to that most conspicuous of the heavenly bodies, and that 
the Sun's day should have the first hour of the day appropriated to it. 
Then Venus the second, and Mercury the third, Moon the fourth, 
Saturn the fifth, Jupiter the sixth, and Mars the seventh, counting from 
the farthest planet to the nearest. The Sun likewise governs the 8th, 
15th and 22d; Venus governs the 23d; Mercury the 24th, and the 
Moon governs the first hour of the next day ; therefore it is called 
Moon's day, and so on ; Saturn governs the second hour, Jupiter 3d, 
Mars 4th, Sun 5th, Venus 6th, Mercury 7th, Moon 8th. The Moon 
also governs the 15th and 22d, Saturn 23d, Jupiter 24th, and Mars the 
first hour of the following day, which is called Tuesday, and so on each 
day, commencing at sunrise, according to the following table : 







SUNDAY 












WEDNESDA\ 






Sun 


Ven. 


Mer. 


Moon 


Sat. 


J'JP- 


Mars 


Mer. 


Moon 


Sat. 


Jup- 


Mars 


. Sun 


Ven 


1 


2 


3 


4 


5 


6 


7 


1 


2 


3 


4 


5 


6 


7 


8 


9 


10 


1 1 


12 


13 


14 


8 


9 


IO 


1 1 


12 


J 3 


H 


»5 


l6 


17 


18 


19 


20 


2J 


l 5 


l6 


17 


18 


l 9 


20 


21 


22 


2 3 


24 










22 


2 3 


24 














MONDAY. 










THURSDAY. 






Moon 


Sat. 


J up. 


Mars 


Sun 


Ven. 


Mer. 


J-p. 


Mars 


Sun Ven. 


Mer. 


Moon 


Sat. 


1 


2 


3 


4 


5 


6 


7 


I 


2 


3 


4 


5 


6 


7 


8 


9 


IO 


1 1 


12 


*3 


14 


8 


9 


10 


1 1 


12 


*3 


H 


*5 


16 


17 


18 


>9 


20 


21 


15 


16 


17 


18 


19 


20 


21 


22 


2 3 


24 










22 


23 


24 














TUESDAY. 














FRIDAY. 






Mars 


Sun 


Ven. 


Mer. 


Moon 


Sat. 


Jup. 


Ven. 


Mer. 


Moon 


Sat. 


Jup. 


Mars 


Sun 


1 


2 


3 


4 


5 


6 


7 


1 


2 


3 


4 


5 


6 


7 


8 


9 


IO 


1 1 


12 


13 


14 


8 


9 


10 


1 1 


12 


13 


H 


»S 


16 


17 


18 


19 


20 


21 


15 


16 


17 


18 


19 


20 


2J 


22 


2 3 


24 










22 


2 3 


24 






















SATURDAY. 






















Sat. 


Jup. 


Mars 


Sun Ven 


Mer. 


Moon 
















1 


2 


3 


4 5 


6 


7 


















8 


9 


10 


11 12 


13 


H 


















*5 


16 


17 


18 19 


20 


21 


















22 


2 3 


24 

















ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 15 

In a number of languages, for instance, the French and the Latin, 
and some others, the people still retain the names of the planets for the 
names of the days in the week. But some four hundred years after Eng 
land had been conquered by the Romans, the English and other nations 
were left to take care of themselves; they were invaded or conquered by 
pagans called Goths, from Gothland, and the Norsemen from the North, 
who came from Norway and Sweden. Among those noted generals was 
one named Thor ; his wife's name was Frea. When he died, Jupi- 
ter's day, or Thursday, was named in honor or remembrance of Thor, 
and Frea, his wife, had Venus' day or Friday named in honor of her. 
Even at the present day travelers in Sweden have the tombs of Thor 
and Frea pointed out to them. Another noted general was named 
Woden, or the man of the woods, and when he died they named Wed- 
nesday or Mercury's day in honor of him. Another famous general was 
Twi, and when he died, Tuesday or Mars' day was named after him ; 
and no doubt if those wars had continued and the generals had gone on 
conquering the nations, each day of the week would have been 
named after some great commander of some noted army which came 
to invade England and other barbarous countries; as we have the 
eighth month of the vear named after the Roman Emperor Augus- 
tas, and the seventh month in honor of Julius Caesar. 

The Quakers and Shakers have done everything they could to 
Aange the names of the days of the week, as they had an impress- 
ion that they were all named after the pagan gods and thought it 
wicked to call days after those heathen deities, so they called Sunday 
the Lord's day or first day, Monday the second day, Tuesday the 
third day, and the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh days. 

During the French Revolution, the Revolutionists not only abolished 
all religion and worshipped the Goddess of Reason, but they began a 
new calendar and changed the names of the days of the week and 
broke up the weeks entirely, and made each week ten days long, 
and three weeks in a moon or month. * But this system of reckoning 



* THE REPUBLICAN CALENDAR OF FRANCE. 

In 1793 the National Convention of the First French Republic decreed that the old era 
should be abolished in all civil affairs and that a new era should commence from the foundation 
of the Republic. 

The commencement of the year was fixed at the autumnal equinox, which nearly coincided 
with the epoch of the foundation of the Republic. The names of the ancient months were abol- 
ished, and others substituted having reference to agricultural labors or the state of nature in dif- 
ferent seasons of the year. 

Beginning 22 September, 1792, the year was divided into 12 months of 30 days, each with 5 
complementary days at the end to be celebrated as festivals, and were dedicated to Virtue, 
Genius, Labor, Opinion, Reward. Every fourth or Olympic year was to have a sixth comple- 
mentary day to be called "revolution day," and every period of four years was to be called a 
Franciade. 

The first, second and third centurial years, viz , 100, 200, 300, were to be common years, the 
fourth centurial year, 400, was to be a leap year, and this was to continue till the fortieth cen- 
turial, 4000. which was to be a common year. The months were to be divided into three parts 
often days each, called decades. The names of the months and the days of the Gregorian Cal- 
endar, to which they corresponded were as follows ; 



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ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 



time was so artificial and contrary to all the laws of nature that it w& 
soon discontinued. The French people, like all other Christians, and 1 
might say all other civilized nations, call the names of the days of tht 
weeks after the names of the planets, which govern those days, and alsc 
have the seven days of the week similar to other nations. 

Indeed in every civilized or half civilized nation on the face of tht 
earth they have the names of the days of the week called aftei 
the planets and have them arranged according to the planetary hours, 
commencing the first hour after midnight with the name of the planet 
that rules that day. 

The planetary hours are not all of equal length, and they are reck- 
oned from sunrise to sunset, and not from 12 o'clock at night, when the 
day really commences, but at sunrise. in summer the planetary 
hour of the day is much longer than the planetary hour of the night. 
The way to calculate the length of the planetary hours for any particu- 
lar day in the year is to find out what time the Sun rises and what time 
it sets on that particular day, then add the number of hours together, 
afterwards reduce the number of hours from sunrise to sunset into min- 
utes by multiplying them by 60 and adding the odd minutes u that 
sum, and then dividing it by 12, which gives the length in hours and 
minutes of the planetary hour of that particular day. When the plane- 
tary hour is more than 60 minutes long in the day it is less than 60 
minutes lq the night, but near the 21st of March and the 21st of Sep- 
tember the planetary hour in all latitudes is the same length — that is, 
60 minutes for both night and day. 

I propose further on to prove that the planets still rule and always 
did rule the days of the week that they are named after, and also each 
hour of the day is ruled by its own particular planet, and in the order of 
their distance from the earth, commencing with the most distant planet, 
Saturn, then Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury and the Moon, 

Probably there is nothing more convincing of the general belief in 
Astrology throughout the whole civilized world in former ages than the 
names of the days of the week, and the planetary hours governing the 
same, and which we continue to make use of even < the present day. 



Vendemaire 

Hrumaire 

Krimaire 

Nivose 

Pluviose 

Ventose 

Germinal 

Floreal 

Prairial 

Messidor 

Thetmidor 

Fructidor 



Vintage 


Sept 


22 to Oct. 21. 


Foggy 


Oct 


21 to Nov. 20. 


Sleety 


Nov 


21 to Dec. 20. 


Snowy 


Dec. 


21 to Jan- iq. 


Rainy 


Ian. 


20 to Feb 18. 


Windv 


Feb. 


19 to Mar. 20. 


Budding 


Mar. 


21 to April 19. 


Flowery 


Apn 


20 to Mav 19. 


Pasture 


May 


20 to June 18. 


Harvest 


June 


19 to July 18. 


Heat 


lulv 


19 to Aug. 17. 


Fruit 


Aug. 


18 to Sept. 15. 



Floreal (the "flowery '') the eighth month in the Republican Calendar of France, which 
from Nov. 24. 179? to Sept. 9, 1805, was used in place of the Gregorian. Floreal began April 
19-22 anrl ended Mav 18-21. 

In Roman days the festival o( Flora, the Goddess of Flowers, was between 28th April and 
jd of Mav. 

By Napoleon's command this new system was abolished and the era of the Gregorian Calen 
dar resumed on Jan. 1, 1807. (See note on page 248.) 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY IJ 

It is an utter impossibility for those days to have been arranged in 
the order in which they are by chance, or without a knowledge of the 
planetary hours, therefore those learned men who first arranged the days 
in the week must have had a practical knowledge of Astrology, and such 
as but few learned men at the present day possess, and there must v ave 
been thousands of Astrologers in every nation and in all parts of the 
world which claimed to be at all civilized, to have had such an influ- 
ence on mankind as to have made the names of those days to become 
universal, or to be adopted by all civilized nations on the face of the 
e.irth. There is nothing to be compared to it, even in religion 
science, politics, or even fashion ; and as Professor Proctor says: , 

" Astrology had a most respectable origin, and if common opinion 
could prove any doctrine just, astrology must, it would seem, have been 
bised on truth." 

Professor Proctor goes on to say in his 

''HUMBUG OF ASTROLOGY": 

" Having thus decided on the special influence of the seven planets, the 
ancients readily formed a system bv which, as they supposed, the action of 
those influences on the fortunes of men and nations might be determined. 
When they had also learned how to calculate the position of the planets for 
any length of time in advance, they believed that they had obtained full 
power of predicting the fortunes of eacli man as soon as having calculated 
the aspects of the heavens at his nativity they had learned which planets 
were most potent in their influences of his fortune. 

"And with this power of prediction came some power of favoring good 
fortune and preventing evil ; in other words, in ruling as well as reading the 
pjanets.' 7 



I think that astrologers in all parts of the world ought to thank 
Professor Proctor for praising up Astrology as he has done, and for hav- 
ing laid the principles of that science on such a solid and firm founda- 
tion. 

When Mr. Proctor says: "The ancient Astrologers having thus 
decided on the special influence of the seven planets" and " their in- 
fluences on the fortunes of men and nations," etc., he does not tell 
his readers that the ancients had observed the influences in the horo- 
scopes of men and in the horoscopes of nations for thousands of 
years, and that those influences were unfailing in their effect, and 
that the effects of the planetary influences are observed in hundreds 
of thousands of horoscopes, even up to the present day, by astrolo- 
gers in all parts of the world. 

I have myself observed the effects of the planetary influence in 
over two hundred thousand horoscopes, and continued to observe their 
effects in some horoscopes over 40 years, and every man who studies 
and practices Astrology becomes convinced of the effects of the "seven 
planets on the fortunes of men and nations " and must agree with 
John Kepler, the greatest Astronomer that ever lived, when he says: 
"A most unfailing experience of the excitement of sublunary nature by 



lb ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 

the conjunction and aspects of the planets has instructed and compelled 
my unwilling belief." 

If Richard A. Proctor had spent some time in making calculations 
of the seven planets and observing their effect in horoscopes as the 
great Astronomer, John Kepler, had spent years in doing, it is pos- 
sible that instead of writing an article for the New York World helping 
the editors to justify their conduct in the eyes of the public for being 
the means of sending an innocent man to Sing Sing prison for fifteen 
years for the sole purpose of booming their paper, as the chief edi- 
tor afterwards wrote a letter, over his own signature, acknowlecgii £ 
such to be the case, — I say, if Mr. Proctor had followed il e 
example of John Kepler instead of calling all Astrologers "lying knaves, 
silly charlatans and unscrupulous rascals," etc., he might have been like 
Bishop Butler, who, after writing and doing all he could to expose 
Astrology, undertook to study it so that he could condemn the science 
with more effect, and wound up by writing and publishing one of the 
best text books on Astrology we now have. 

The next author who has written against Astrologv and to whom I 
shall call the reader's attention is the Rev. Thomas Dick, of England. 
In a work which he published there, and was republished by Harper 
Brothers, of New York City, and called the 

"IMPROVEMENT OF SOCIETY BY THE DIFFUSION OF 
KNOWLEDGE." 

It was republished about the year 1830 and went through a 
great many editions, both in England and this country. Mr. Dick 
says on page 32, when referring to Astrology: 

"This art has been practiced in every period of time. Among the 
Romans the people were so infatuated with it that the Astrologers, or, as 
they were then called, the mathematicians, maintained their ground in spite 
of all the edicts of the Emperors to expel them from the capital; and after 
they were at length expelled by a formal decree of the Senate, they 
found so much protection from the credulity of the people that thev 
still remained in Rome unmolested. Among the Chaldeans, the Assyri- 
ans, the Egyptians, the Greeks, and the Arabians, in ancient times, 
Astrology n.vas uniformly included in the list of sciences and used as one 
species of divination by which they attempted to pry into the secrets of 
futurity. The Brahmins of India at an early period introduced this art 
into that country, and by means of it have rendered themselves the arbiters 
of good and evil hours,* and of the fortunes of their fellow-men, and have 
thus raised themselves to great authority and influence among the illiterate.! 
of the multitude. They are consulted as oracles, and hke all other impos- 
ters, they have taken great care never to sell ther answers without a hand- 
some remuneration. In almost every country in the world this art is still 

* Or, in other words, the Brahmins calculated the times of the good and evil planetary hours 
for the people. 

t The Rev. Thomas Dick should not entirely have lost his head in the excitement 
of writing against Astrology; he infers that it was only the illiterate who believed in 
Astrology, and in a few lines further on he tells us that all the Kings, Queens, and the 
learned and scientific men of the world believed in Astrology at that period of the world's history. 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 19 

practiced, and only a short time has elapsed since the princes and legislators 
of Europe were directed in the most important concerns of the state by the 
advice or predictions of Astrologers. In the time of Queen Catharine De 
Medici, Astrology was so much in vogue that nothing, however trifling, 
was to be done without consulting the stars. The Astrologer Morin, in 
the seventeenth century, directed Cardinal Richeleu's motions in some of his 
journeys, and Louisa Marie de Gonzaga, Queen of Poland, gave 200 crowns 
to carry on an edition of his astrological Gallicoa ; and in the reign of 
Henry the Third and Henry the Fourth, of France, the predictions of 
Astrologers were the common theme of court conversation. Even in the 
present day and in the metropolis of the British Empire this fallacious art is 
practiced, and its professors are resorted to for judicial information, not only 
by the vulgar, but by many in the higher spheres of life.* The exten- 
sive annual sale of more than 200,000 copies of Moore's Almanac, which 
abounds in such predictions, and of similar publications, is a striking proof 
of the belief which is still attached to the doctrines of Astrology in our own 
age and country." 

In spite of the venom which the reverend gentleman has 
tried to heap on the science of Astrology and its professors, and 
probably no man has tried harder to crush that profession than the 
Rev. Thomas Dick, the reader can see for himself that it was 
impossible for him not to praise the science, and prove that it has been 
practiced in every age 2nd nation on the face of the earth, and believed 
in by the learned men, the nobility, and kings and queens. 

The next persons whom 1 shall refer to as having written and pub- 
lished works condemning Astrology are William and Robert Chambers, 
of Edinburgh, Scotland. 

In Chambers' Encyclopedia, published at Edinburgh, Scotland, and 
republished by J. B. Lippincott & Co., of Philadelphia, in 1872, under 
the word Astrology, the following is said : 

"Astrology meant originally much the same as--, Astronomy, the knowl- 
edge of the stars, and was at length restricted to the science of predicting 
future events, especially the fortunes of men from the position of heav- 
enly bodies. This <was considered the higher or real science, while the mere 
knowledge of the stars themselves, their places, and motions, or Astronomy, 
was, till a very recent period, cultivated mostly with a view to judicial 
Astrology. Astrology is one of the most ancient forms of superstition, and 
is found prevailing among the nations of the East, Egyptians, Chaldeans, 
Hindoos, Chinese at the very dawn of history. The Jews became much 
addicted to it after their captivity. It spread into the West and to Rome 
about the beginning of the Christain era. Astrologers played an important 
part at Rome, where they were called Chaldeans and Mathematicians, and 
though often banished by the Senate and Emperor under pain of 
death, and otherwise persecuted, they continued to hold their ground. 
The Roman poet, Manilus, author of an astronomical poem still extant, 
was addicted to Astrology, and even Ptolemy." [The writer here- refers 
to Claudius Ptolemy, the author of the Ptolemaic System of Astronomy and 
" Ptolemy Tetrabiblos," or Four Books on Astrology. These books have 

* In the Lives of Necromancer, by William Goodwin, on page 253, he says : "That Robert 
Dudley, Elizabeth's chief favorite was sent to consult Dr. Dee, a famous Astrologer, as to the 
aspects of the stars, that they might fix on an auspicious day for celebrating her coronation." 



20 ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 

stood the test of over 2,000 years, and are text-books on that science 
at the present day.] " The Astronomer did not escape the infection which 
in his time had become universal. It accorded well with the predestinarian 
doctrines of Mohammedanism, and was accordingly cultivated with great 
ardor by the Arabs from the 7th to the 13th century. For centuries the 
most learned men continued devoted to the delusive science. Regiomonta- 
nus, the famous mathematician ; Carda, even Tycho Brahe and Kepler, 
could not shake off the fascination of Astrology. Kepler could not deny a 
certain connection between the position of the planets and the qualities of 
those born under them." 

The Astrologers who lived in the era of the above scientific and 
learned men were certainly in very good company, to say the least, and 
the law makers and senators must certainly have been an ignorant and 
prejudiced class, similar to what they are at the present day. In all 
ages and nations, especially in Christian countries, it has been the cus- 
tom for legislators to enact laws to supprese everything that was not 
popular with the masses, as they say the rights of the few must give way 
to the majority. If it was religion, the professors were imprisoned or 
executed for being heretics ; if it was science, its advocates were im- 
prisoned or executed for being witches or wizards. If the intelligence 
of the people of any country were such that they rebelled against such 
fanatic laws, so that they could not be enacted, or if such laws were 
enacted and the legislatures were compelled to repeal them, yet in all such 
countries there has always been invented traps or snares to catch these 
persons advocating any new doctrine or science, or in some way com- 
pelling such persons to break or violate some law that had no relation to, 
and was never intended to oppose that science or new religion which the 
professors were teaching or advocating.* 

In the days of Christ we read in Matthew, 2zd chapter, from 15th 
to 23d verses, that the Pharisees took counsel to entrap Christ in his 
talk, and on a subject that had nothing whatever to do with the religion 
he was teaching, but related to the subject of tribute or taxes which the 
Jews had to pay. Judea previously having been conquered by the Ro- 
mans,, the people of that country were compelled to pay tribute to their 
conquerers ; and they knew if they could get Christ to say that the Jews 
were not to pay tribute, then the authorities would have Christ 
arrested, and if he said the Jews were to pay tribute then the 
Jews would condemn him. But Christ said, " Why tempt me, ve 
hypocrites? Show me the tribute money. And they brought unto him 
a penny, and he said, Whose is this image and superscription ? And they 
said unto him, Qesar's. Then said he unto them, Render unto Caesar 



* After the election and inauguration of Grover Cleveland in 1S93, business came almost to a 
standstill and banks were failing daily. Vast numbers of the unemployed commenced marching 
from Ohio to Washington, D. C. to urge Congress to do something to relieve i lie distress 
(>t the unemployed. They went by the name of Coxey's Army. That individual and his follow- 
ers having arrived in Washington, were marching up the Capitol grounds, and the crowd was 
such that Coxey could not pass, neither could he retreat, and in order to pass he stepped on the 
grass. The moment lie did so lie was arrested, although there were thousands of others walking 
on the grass. He was tried, not for any criminal act he had committed, but because he did no 
" keep off the grass." Of course the trial was a farce, yet I believe he had to suffer imprisonment 
for several weeks. 



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ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 21 

the things that are Caesar's and unto God the things that are God's." 
And Matthew goes on to say, " they went their way." 

" A KNOWLEDGE OF ASTROLOGY DOES NOT COUNT, EXCEPT SO FAR AS IT 
PROVES A PERSON INSANE OR AN IMBECILE." 

Chambers' Encyclopedia states that John Kepler was the greatest 
Astronomer of all ages. He was born near Stuttgart, Germany, Decem- 
ber 27, 1571. It was he who discovered what is known as the first 
three great laws in Astronomy. " The first law is that the planets 
move in elipses, with the Sun in one of the foci. The second, that 
the Radius-vector sweeps over equal areas in equal times. The third, 
that the square of the periodical time is proportional to the cube of 
the same distance." He made other great discoveries in Astronomy, 
and was also a noted mathematician. 

Kepler also made many discoveries in Astrology, among others 
what is called Kepler's Aspects ; these are the semi-sextile, the semi- 
square, the quintile, and the sesquiquadrate and the biquintile. 

Robert G. Ingersoll, in one of his popular lectures, praises John 
Keplar on account of his knowledge of Astronomy and states that 
the scientific world is indebted to that great man for wonderful dis- 
coveries in that science, but at the same time Ingersoll condemns 
Astrology and compares it to the superstitions of the Christian 
religion, and he entirely ignores John Kepler's discoveries in Astrol- 
ogy, or at least they do not count with that popular infidel. In 
some respects Robert G. Ingersoll may be compared to the people 
in England and other Christian nations. Some years ago, when Lord 
DufFerin was British Ambassador at Constantinople, he one day heard 
a number of cannons firing in the street or public square, and went 
out to make inquiries as to what was the cause of the celebration. 
One of the Turkish officers whom he asked told him that the gov- 
ernment had been making reforms for the Christians in the Turkish 
dominions, and said this was the day these reforms took effect. 
The officer also said : " By the way, we have also made reforms for 
the Mohammedans, and they also go into effect to-day, but vou 
know reforms for the Mohammedans do not count with you 
Christian people." It appears that discoveries in Astrology do net count 
with either Christians or infidels. 

" Strange such a difference there should be 
'Tvvixt tweedledum and tweedledee." 

Is it any wonder John Kepler " could not shake off* the fascination 
of Astrology ? " For in addition to proving the "connection between the 
position of the planets and the qualities of those born under them," he 
also states that he had had " an unfailing experience of the influence of 
the planets by the conjunction and aspects, which had instructed and 
compelled his unwilling belief. " 

In a small work called " The Uses of Biography," by Edwin Pax- 
ton Hood, London, England, published in 1853, in Chapter VII., the 



tt ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 

writer gives an account of the foibles and vices of great men, and on 
pages 1 1 6 and 117 we have the following sentences: 

" Cardinal Richelieu, the minister of a great Empire (France) believed 
in the calculation of nativities. Even Sir Isaac Newton gave credit to the 
idle nonsense of judicial Astrology 5 he who first calculated the distances 
of the stars and revealed the laws of motion by which the Supreme Being 
organizes and keeps in their orbits unnumbered worlds ; he who had 
revealed the mysteries of the stars themselves. Dryden, Sir Isaac Newton's 
contemporary, believed in the same absurdity." 

[Is it not strange that a man may excel in all the modern sciences, and even 
make wonderful discoveries in such as Astronomy and mathematics, and be 
counted sane and sensible, and even a very learned man, but the moment 
he touches Astrology, by some legerdemain, he is said instantly to become 
insane or a scoundrel ? There is no doubt but Sir Isaac Newton was an 
excellent Astrologer, and even calculated his own and probably most of his 
friend's horoscopes. Cardinal Richelieu no doubt understood Astrology, 
but probably he employed eminent Astrologers to do the most of the cal- 
culations for him in his judicial Astrology, as had Queen Elizabeth.] 

"It is published by William Congreve, an English actor, and the same 
was also published in the Encyclopedia Britanica, and a number of other 
publications) that John Dryden calculated his son Charles 1 horoscope, and 
the predictions were fulfilled to the letter. Mr. Congreve states 'that when 
Mrs. Dryden commenced in labor of her son Charles, Dryden left his watch 
in charge of one of the ladies in attendance with a strict injunction to notice 
the exact moment of the child's birth. In about a week after her confinement 
Mr. Dryden took the occasion to tell his wife that he had calculated the 
child's horoscope and observed w th grief that the child was born in an evil 
hour. That Jupiter,Venus and the Sun were all under the earth, and the Lord 
of the ascendant was afflicted with a hateful square of Saturn and Mars. He 
went on to tell her that if he lives to arrive at his 8th birthday he will come 
near a violent death, but if he escapes that, and I see but small hopes that 
he will, in his 23d year he will again be under the same evil direction, 
and if he escapes that also, the 33d and 34th years will, I fear — There he 
was interrupted by the grief of Lady Dryden, who could no longer hear one 
calamity after another prophesied for her new-born son.' 

" When young Dryden arrived near his oth year, it was arranged that 
Lady Dryden should spend the Summer vacation with her Uncle Mour- 
dant, and Mr. Dryden was invited to the country seat of the Earl of 
Berkshire, his brother-in-law, to spend his vacation." [It appears from 
the account published that Dryden had two sons, John and Charles ; 
it was arranged that each of them should take one of the boys. Lady 
Dryden wished her husband to take John, as she desired to have Charles 
with her, feeling that he would be safer under her maternal care than in 
his father's company, " but Dryden insisted on taking Charles, and they 
parted in anger." 

"On the child's Sth birthday it was arranged by the Earl of Berkshire 
that his guests should go hunting, and Dryden, to keep the child out of mis- 
chief, set him a double lesson in Latin, with a strict injunction that he 
should not go out of the house. Charles was performing his duty in obedi- 
ence to his father, but as ill-fate would have it the stag made towards the 
house, and the noise alarming the servants they hastened out to see the 
sport. One of the servants took young Dryden by the hand and ltd him 
out to see it also ; when just as they came to the gate, the stag being at bay 
with thedegs, made a bold push and leaped over the court wall, which was 



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low and very old, and the dogs following threw down a part of the wall ten 
yards in length, under which Charles Dryden lay buried. He was immedi- 
ately dug ont, and after six weeks languishing in a dangerous way he recov- 
ered. In the 23d year of his age, Charles fell from the top of an old tower 
belonging to the Vatican at Rome, occasioned by a dizziness with which he 
was seized, the heat of the day being excessive. He again recovered, but 
was ever after in a languishing, sickly state. In the 33d year of his age, 
being returned to England, he was unhappily drowned at Windsor. He 
had, with another gentleman, swam twice across the Thames, but 
returning a third time, it was supposed he was taken with a cramp, 
because he calle'd out for help, though too late. The father's calculation 
proved but too prophetical." 

Some persons will say, what is the use calculating horoscopes 
when the fate is inevitable and cannot be avoided, or in any way 
warded off, even when the nature of the accident and the time of the 
event has been predicted? But the reader ought to bear in mind that the 
aspects in this nativity are what are called marked. The mere expres- 
sion of Mr. Dry den's, that " the child was born in an evil hour (mean- 
ing an evil planetary hour) ; Venus, Jupiter and the Sun were 
all tender the earth, the ascendant being afflicted with a hate- 
ful square of Mars and Saturn," alone proves that he was 
an Astrologer, and also that the child had a marked horoscope 
and that it would die a violent death. It also shows that the 
ascendant was what is termed the " Giver of Life," and being so 
afflicted it was almost impossible for the native to die a natural death. 
Therefore in horoscopes of this kind, the stars are said to rule or gov- 
ern the native, and the native does not rule the stars, but he is con- 
trolled by them. 

Horoscopes, like that of Charles Dryden, are the exception 
and not the rule, but when we meet with them there is nothing more 
convincing of the truth of Astrology. Indeed, in this kind of nativities 
Astrology beco?nes a positive or exact science, and in such cases it is 
almost useless righting against fate. In the case of young Dryden, 
although he had wealthy, kind and indulgent parents, also servants to 
take special care of him, yet those servants went and led him into the 
very evil they were charged to guard him against. With such " unfail- 
ing experience " no wonder when such men as Sir Isaac Newton ( 
John Kepler, Cardinal Richelieu and John Dryden could see such con- 
vincing proofs of the truth of Astrology that they should look upon the 
science of Astronomy only as an elementary branch of the science of 
Astrology, as we look upon A, B, C, or the English alpha- 
bet, as merely the elements of language. But the real science of lan- 
guage only begins when we associate these let&ers into syllables and 
words, and associate meanings to words, and then associate words into 
sentences, and those sentences into paragraphs, etc. 

William and Robert Chambers, in their Encyclopedia, say that : 

" Astronomy or the knowledge of the stars was till a very recent 
period cultivated mostly with a view to judicial Astrology," and that " this 
(Astrology) was considered the higher or real science" and as Richard A, 



24 ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 

Proctor says : "That throughout the long period, to be measured by thou- 
sands of years, when all men held this belief, the most part held what 
anciently had been the belief of all," and "to this day are not all languages 
permeated by the expressions belonging to the old astrological teachings?" 

The reader ought to bear in mind that those men who held to this 
" belief" were at that time the most learned men on the face of the 
earth, and were all able to calculate nativities, and to prove the truth 
of their observations, and no doubt they were all similar to John Dry- 
den and John Kepler, who had had "a most unfailing experience of 
the excitement of sublunary nature by the conjunctions and aspects of 
the planets " in those horoscopes which they calculated. 

Thus far I wish the reader to understand that in this section I have 
only been giving the evidence of witnesses against Astrology. If I were 
a lawyer and were pleading the cause of Astrology before a judge and 
jury, I think I should be justified in requesting the judge to throw the case 
out of court if the opponents of that science had no further evidence to 
offer, as the proof against Astrology so far is not valid or proved beyond a 
reasonable doubt. But on the contrary the evidence has gone altogether 
in favor of the truth of that science. But as a vast number of authors 
who have written against Astrology during the past two hundred years 
have employed what they term arguments against the science, and which 
they deem very conclusive, I think I ought to give some, if not all, of 
those arguments, and then let the readers judge for themselves. If the 
reader has been surprised at the testimony already brought by the wit- 
nesses against Astrology, I think he will be much more surprised with 
their arguments ; as these arguments could not possibly stand a moment 
against any other science, no matter how ridiculous or nonsensical that 
science might be, and the only reason that I can account for these argu- 
ments having been brought against Astrology is that the people at large 
must be more or less insane and incapable of judging fairly in the mat- 
ter. Possibly I am like the man who was confined in an insane asylum. 
When his friends went to see him they inquired why such a sensible 
man as he was thus confined. He made answer by saying : "It was 
only a matter of opinion which caused my confinement ; I said that all 
the world was crazy, and they said I was crazy, and the majority 
ruled." 

THE SUPPOSED ARGUMENTS WHICH THE ENEMIES OF 
ASTROLOGY HAVE BROUGHT AGAINST THAT 
SCIENCE. 

One of the main arguments those professors always bring against 
Astrology is the law of gravitation. They argue that "as the Sun, 
Moon, planets and Stars are so far away from the earth, and man being 
such a small body, that the law of gravitation or attraction must have 
such a very insignificant effect on him that it is impossible to be felt or 
calculated, or that it can have any influence whatever." If it could be 
proven that the law of gravitation was the only law, force, or influence 
in the heavens above, or on the earth beneath, or in the water under 



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the earth, and that the planets and signs of the Zodiac or the Sun or 
Moon could not act on the earth and its inhabitants in any other man- 
ner, then that argument might have some weight, but until that is 
proven no person but one perfectly ignorant of the laws of nature would 
think of making use of such a plea ; yet I have known graduates 
and professors of colleges to bring it forward, deeming themselves 
very learned and wise in being able to urge such a weighty consid- 
eration against the science of Astrology, and in their wisdom they 
laughed at me for stating my belief in that science, and at my proofs 
of such belief. 

Any person having a knowledge of modern science, I think, must 
admit that there are other influences and laws at work in nature, besides 
the law of gravitation. Take, for instance, the science of electricity. 
There are laws and principles in that science that are altogether at 
variance with the laws of gravitation, so far as we understand them at the 
present day, or are ever likely to understand them. 

The rapid progress that is now being made in electrical science is 
simply astonishing. It looks at the present time that electricity is going 
to supersede steam and coal gas, and that before long our machinery, 
ships, railways and mills will be run by electricity, and that our houses 
will be lighted and warmed by that method. 

Only compare electricity at the present day with what it was a 
hundred years ago, and the reader must admit that it is simply marvel- 
ous. Even if the professors of colleges could have had proofs at that 
time that there was no other force or influence in existence but the 
law of gravitation, such proofs would have very little weight at the 
present day ; besides, there are other new forces constantly cropping 
out ; we need only to look at photography at the present day, and look 
at it fifty years ago and compare the difference. The discov- 
ery of the X-Ray is another remarkable proof of forces and laws existing 
in nature that were previously never thought or dreamed of. 

In the early part of the present century, Professor Faraday, of Eng- 
land, in studying the galvanic cells, discovered that two electric cur- 
rents are in motion, and he named one " Cathode," the other " Anode. " 
The first name was applied to the current entering the cell and the lat- 
ter to the one leaving. These currents when passing through glass tubes 
produce a spark or glow. Other electricians and chemists have made 
investigations in that direction until Professor Roentgen, of Germany, in 
the latter part of 1895, was able to photograph through a plank of wood 
a foot in thickness, and various other substances which formerly it was 
believed that light never entered. Aluminum is very susceptible of 
having light transmitted through it. This light is believed to be 
the quintescence that the old philosophers tried to discover and 
make use of for thousands of years. Professor Edison has improved 
on those experiments by the use of electric light, and what is termed 
the X-Ray; and there is no telling at the present day what may be 
accomplished in that direction at some future time in the arts and 
sciences. 



26 ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 

The ancient philosophers and Astrologers divided everything on the 
earth into four divisions, which they styled the elements or essences, 
and which four elements they named fire, earth, air and water; they 
also divided the heavenly bodies into those elements or essences, especi- 
ally the signs *of the Zodiac, and the planets, and the Sun and the 
Moon. The signs of the Zodiac were called the trigons or triplicities. 
The fiery signs were Aries, Leo, Sagittary; the earthy signs were Tau- 
rus, Virgo and Capricorn ; the airy signs were Gemini, Libra and Aqua- 
rius, and the watery signs were Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces. The signs 
of any particular triplicity are in trine aspect to each other. The fiery 
signs were termed hot and dry ; the earthy signs, cold and dry ; the 
airy signs were hot and moist, and the watery signs were cold and 
moist. They also divided the nature or qualities of planets into 
these four elements or essences. The planet Saturn is cold and dry ; 
Jupiter is hot and moist; Mars is hot and dry ; the Sun is called tem- 
perate ; that is, neither hot nor cold, and neither dry nor moist. Venus 
is cold and moist. Mercury is termed changeable, and it depends on 
what aspect it has to other planets, and is so controlled by their natures 
whether those planets are cold or moist, hot or dry, etc. The Moon 
is cold and moist. 

Besides these four elements or essences of nature, the ancients were 
confident that another essence existed, which they called the quint- 
essence, from the Latin quinti, five, and they believed that this quint- 
essence pervaded all nature by a peculiar ether, that penetrated all 
nature, both animate and inanimate, on the same principle that the X-Ray 
discovered by Professor Roentgen penetrates or is transmitted through 
all bodies, especially animal and vegetable. And the ancients also 
believed that it even extended from one planet to another, and from 
the Sun to the Moon and the earth. 

The ancients spent much time and labor in trying to get at and 
understand the quintessence by all kinds of chemical experiments and 
processes, and these philosophers were afterwards called alchemists. 
Hence we have the word chemistry derived from "alchemist." 

I have a number of large volumes that were written and published 
hundreds of years ago by those alchemists, which treat altogether on 
this quintessence ; they believed that in some way this influ- 
ence or quintessence of the planets acted on the earth and its inhabi- 
tants, and ruled, controlled or influenced the earth and its inhabi- 
tants. And those passages in the Bible referred to in a former 
part of this work referred to the Astrologers who were possessed of 
that belief. 

At the present day it is generally believed by most learned 
men that all light and sound and other phenomena of nature 
are produced in some way by this universal principle and all- 
pervading ether or quintessence. Mr. Keeley, of Philadelphia, 
has been working on this quintessence most of his life, and hopes to 
produce a substance that he thinks will revolutionize all motive power, 
as steam power superseded hand or manual labor, and which will 



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eventually do away with steam or electricity as a motor. But no matter 
how the planets act on the earth and its inhabitants, there is one 
thing that is certain and absolute, that is, that they do act in one way 
or another. Any person giving the subject a thorough investigation 
cannot deny that fact. The young student of Astrology may have to cal- 
culate and look through a number of horoscopes before he can bring 
one positive fact to bear in proving the science absolutely true, on account 
of the influence of the planets, one operating on and against 
another, and presenting conflicting testimony, as it is termed. 
As an illustration, the chemists may have to search through 
material nature a long time to find a piece of pure iron, or gold or silver, 
or of other substance not in combination with any other sub- 
stance or metal. But when he can find the pure article he knows it 
has certain qualities or properties which it always retains when in a pure 
state ; so when we can get any particularly clear aspect, or plane- 
tary influence, the effect is always certain, but the effects may not 
always be exactly the same. For instance, I will mention that the 
signs of the Zodiac, besides being divided into fiery, earthy, airy and 
watery signs, are also divided into what is termed " tall " and 
" slender " and "short" and " stout " signs, and " light " signs, and 
" dark " signs, and so are the planets also divided into " tall," " short," 
"dark," "light," "slender" or "stout" planets; persons born 
under them are tall, short, light' or dark, etc., and when we can find a 
tall light sign on the ascendant, and the planet which rules or governs 
that sign is in another tall light sign, or in the same tall or light sign in 
the ascendant, and the Moon is in a similar tall light sign, the person 
born at that time is always tall and light complexioned, and even if he 
is a negro he is much lighter complexioned than negroes generally are 
or either of his parents, and is also tall. When there is a short, stout sign 
on the ascendant, and the planet which has the most influence in the 
ascendant, or is lord of that sign, is in a short, stout sign, or in the same sign 
in the ascendant the Moon also in a short, stout sign, that person is always 
short and stout, no matter how tall and slender both his parents are. 
Also in marriage there are certain rules in Astrology which I might 
state never can be overcome, as they always have an effect. For 
instance, if he marries, he always marries a lady described 
by the planet* that the Moon first applies to by aspect, if he 
marries at all, and if the Moon makes an evil aspect of an evil planet, 
say, for instance, the square or opposition of Saturn or Mars, and par- 
ticularly if there are evil planets in the seventh house (the house of 
marriage) he is always unhappy in his married life. But if the Moon 
makes a good aspect of a good planet, and there are good planets in the 
seventh house, that person always lives happily in married life, no mat- 
ter how vile or vicious he may be himself, he gets a good, affection- 
ate wife, she almost worships him, and is very much affected at his 
death. Also in a woman's horoscope ; she marries a gentleman 
described by the planet that the Sun first applies to by aspect, and if the 
Sun makes an opposition or square of Saturn and Mars, and particularly 



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if there are evil planets in the seventh house, she always has a very 
unhappy married life, but if the Sun makes a good aspect of a good 
planet, and there are what are termed good planets in the seventh house, 
that woman invariably lives a happy married life, and her husband cannot 
see a fault in her. These facts are absolute, and the reader will readily 
see that it would be impossible for such influences to be produced by 
what are termed the laws of gravitation or attraction, or by the law Sir 
Isaac Newton is said to have discovered. There are similar rules or 
laws in Astrology in regard to scars, marks or moles. These marks 
or moles are governed by particular planets in the various signs which 
rule the human body. Also in regard to diseases or ailments of any 
particular part of the body, and the time of life they are likely to be 
affected by evil planets, when transiting through these signs or in evil 
aspect to planets in them. Whenever a person is sick these parts are 
always most affected. I shall treat more fully on this subject later on 
in this work. 

It the enemies of Astrology had been sincere in their endeavor to 
explode the science, they would have stated certain facts in particular 
horoscopes, especially of noted persons, contradicting the statements 
which I have made, instead of going off into generalities and talking 
about the laws of gravitation and centripetal and centrifugal forces, which 
have nothing to do with Astrology, and Astrologers have nothing to do 
with those laws. 

' The Rev. Thomas Dick, of Scotland (instead of disproving the 
facts which I have stated, and which may be found in text-books 
on Astrology), in his book called "Improvement of Society by 
the Diffusion of Knowledge," says on page 3 1 : 

"The planetary bodies, indeed, may in certain cases have some degree 
of physical influence on the earth by virtue of their attractive power, but 
that influence can never affect the operation of" moral causes or the qualities 
of the mind. Even although it were admitted that the heavenly bodies 
have an influence over the destinies of the human race, the principles and 
rules on which Astrologers proceed in constructing horoscopes and calcula- 
ting nativities are nothing else than mere assumptions, and their pretensions 
nothing short of criminal impositions upon the credulity of mankind." 

Did Mr. Dick write this sentence in pure ignorance, or was it a 
deliberate falsehood on his part? He must have known that there 
were thousands of astrological works published in England and in differ- 
ent parts of Europe, which gave the data and formula for making the 
calculations and predicting the fate of men. In other words, did he 
think that because he had never read and studied these books no one 
else had ever done so, and that every person was ignorant of the exist- 
ence of such books ? There are a great many persons in 
Europe and the United States who have read and studied these works if he 
has not ; and the " cuneiform inscriptions of Assyria, the hieorglyphs of 
Egypt, the most ancient records of Persia, India and China " prove 
beyond a question that the science of Astrology has been known, studied 
and practiced in all Eastern countries almost since Adam's time. 



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To afford an idea of the ridiculous arguments which the Rev. Thomas 
Dick, William and Robert Chambers and others have brought against 
Astrology, I will here give one or two special illustrations. 

Let us suppose that a man has been engaged all his life in 
studying and teaching the English grammar, his father and grand- 
father for hundreds of years having been thus engaged ; that this man and 
his forefathers and all their friends and relations have learned and taught 
it almost ever since the language has been spoken, and never discovered 
that this science had been exploded, but on the contrary their experience 
had gone to prove that English grammar is a true science and firmly 
based on the laws of language and that it could not be exploded so long 
as the laws of nature remained unchanged. On the other hand, 
suppose that all persons who did not know the first elements of 
English grammar, and had had no practical experience in teach- 
ing it, had been told and believed that that science had 
been exploded. Would those latter persons' arguments or evi- 
dence be sufficient proof to convince any sane person that 
the rules of English grammar were false, and its teachers and professors 
were frauds ; or to use Professor Proctor's words that " they were all 
ignorant and silly knaves or rogues or charlatans," simply because the 
former taught and practiced something which the latter had never 
learned ? 

To take another view of the case, let us suppose that another set 
of men and their forefathers had been engaged in learning, practicing and 
teaching arithmetic for hundreds of years, and that they had equal con- 
fidence in their science, but those persons learning, teaching and practic- 
ing arithmetic are not satisfied with bringing proofs and facts that their 
science is true and founded on the laws of nature, but must 
bring the rules of arithmetic to bear on English grammar. Let us 
suppose that they commenced by first stating their sums, and by adding 
a noun and a verb together to make an exclamation, or they tried to 
take a verb from an adverb and wanted a participle to remain, or they 
took a noun from a v pronoun and wanted a verb to remain, or they tried 
to state a sum by saying as a verb is to an adverb, so is a noun to a pro- 
noun, and so on. Or again, suppose the grammarian wanted to 
explode arithmetic by his science and commenced by trying to parse 
the multiplication table, and try to see what mood and tense any 
particular number or figure was in, or whether it was in the nominative, 
possessive or objective case, and so on to the end of the chapter. 
Any science or learning could be exploded by such a method, and yet 
these are the only kinds of arguments that have been brought against 
Astrology ; or, in other words, the only arguments I have ever 
seen published, except those from the Bible, and they so Herod 
out Herod that it is not worth while referring to them. 

There are other sciences or professions besides Astrologv that have 
been assailed in almost a similar manner, and by parties trying to explode 
or refute one science by another. We have a remarkable instance in 



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the science of homeopathy, and the allopathic physician trying to ex- 
plode that science by the allopathic practice of medicine. 

I must say that for a long time in my youths I was very much 
opposed to homeopathy and its principles, and thought it alto- 
gether contrary to common sense or the laws of chemistry or physi- 
ology. 1 was brought up to believe that the more we got any medicine 
or drug concentrated, the more wonderful its curative effects 
became ; or, in other words, the more we could get rid of the extraneous 
matter. of a drug, the stronger it became, and the more efficiently it acted 
on the complaint or diseased part. For instance, a chemist would dis- 
till and redistill any particular liquid or spirit, to get it as pure 
as possible. He would sublimate and resublimate any particular 
drug also to get it as concentrated as possible ; or, in other words, the 
doctor or chemist would try to get at what is termed the quintessence 
of the drug. The ancient chemist or alchemist thought that if they 
could once get the universal solvent they might discover the " Elixir of 
Life," and they would then have a remedy for all diseases, and the people 
would die only o f extreme old age. But the professors of the 
homeopathic practice of medicine have gone on the other tack ; they 
commence by diluting a medicine, and constantly diluting the pure 
drug or remedy, believing at the same time that the drug will become 
more potent or stronger by constant dilution, or by adding extraneous 
matter, such as sugar of milk, or water or alcohol to the original drug, and 
at the same time triturating or shaking it. 

The homeopathic physician claims that a drug or medical plant has 
two principles or actions when administered to a sick person ; that it has 
a primary action, and afterwards a secondary effect. For instance, a 
person may take a dose of castor oil. The first action is that of 
a cathartic ; its secondary action is as an astringent, and a 
person continuing to take the same drug, it will have a tendency 
to cause constipation. When the patient again takes the oil he has 
to increase the dose, and each time has to do so to produce the same 
effect ; or, in other words, the patient gradually becomes more and 
more constipated the more castor oil he takes. It is the same with any 
other cathartic medicine. The same principle applies in the liquor 
habit, also in the morphine, tobacco, or snuff habits. They have either 
to make the whiskey or drug stronger or increase the quantity from 
time to time to produce the same effect. 

For instance, I once read of a certain judge who had to take a whole 
box of cathartic pills every morning, in order that he might have an 
evacuation during the day. 

In my early years I remember a cousin of mine. Dr. William 
Broughton, who made great fun of the homeopathic practice of medi- 
cine. In short, it was a regular standing joke or butt with him, and yet 
every day he was practicing or doctoring on the homeopathic princi- 
ple, but did not know it. In giving an account of a case of 
diarrhoea which he had cured after all the other doctors had 
failed, he stated that his remedy was a very small quantity of castor 



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oil, only half a teaspoonful, every day, and the astringent property of 
the oil had entirely cured the diarrhoea. To make this matter a little 
plainer to the reader, I will state that the human constitution is so 
organized that when any extra action of any part of the body is pro- 
duced, nature not only repairs that loss or injury received, but adds a 
little more to it, or makes the parts stronger so as to be better prepared 
for the next over-exertion or special action. For instance, if a man 
who has very delicate or soft hands should commence working with a 
shovel or crowbar, his hands for the first day or so wiU'get very sore 
and tender, but afterwards, if he continues that work, nature makes the 
skin thicker and harder, and the more he uses or wears those parts of the 
hands, the harder, thicker and tougher the skin becomes. Therefore, 
the next time he commences shoveling or working with a crowbar, 
he can work longer before his hands become tender or sore. It is 
the same in the lining of the intestines. When a person takes a dose of 
castor oil or anything which produces a special action of those parts, 
nature not only repairs the damage done, but also adds to the thickness 
of the inner coating or lining of the intestines, so that the next dose of 
medicine will not have such an injurious effect as the first, and 
it is found by experience that the secondary action (as it is sometimes 
called) or the tendency of nature to more than repair the effect or 
damage done to the human system by any particular cause or drug is 
more to be relied upon in its curative effects than any primary action of 
a drug or remedy ; and the point to be aimed at is to get as small a pri- 
mary action as possible, and the secondary action is not reduced in its 
effect in proportion to the small primary action of a drug, but in many 
cases the secondary reaction is even stronger or movt potetit when the 
primary cause is reduced or weakened by trituration with sugar of milk, 
or any unmedicinal substance. It is certain that homeopathic doctors 
make a great many wonderful cures, and if we can judge by past experi- 
ence it appears that in the course of time homeopathy will be the main 
if not the only practice of medicine throughout the whole civilized 
world, and it is the only science of medicine that has yet been discov- 
ered which is governed by or in accord with nature's laws and is to be 
relied on in almost all cases. But still homeopathic doctors go a little 
too far in stating that there never has been and never can be a cure 
made of any disease or derangement of any part of the human system 
which has not been and is not cured on the homeopathic principle, or 
the law of " similia similibus curantur," or " like cures like." There 
is no doubt that there have been some cures made by assisting nature 
and using remedies that have acted on the principle of the primary effect 
of a drug, similar to the primary action of castor oil relieving consti- 
pation for the time being, even if it does not cure perma- 
nently. But generally the primary effect of a remedy or drug has a ten- 
dency to confirm or establish the disease and causes it to be incurable ; 
hence so many allopathic doctors' patients become confirmed invalids, 
and has a doctor all the time until death comes to their relief. 

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" similia similibus curantur," and its action in the human economy, 
and which principle had been overlooked or neglected, if not entirely 
ignored, by the doctors of the allopathic school. Thousands if not 
millions of lives of human beings have been saved by homeopathy, and 
the lives of those patients would have been destroyed by the old-school 
practice of medicine. Yet the allopathic doctors have done everything pos- 
sible to crush homeopathic and all other kinds of practitioners of medicine 
out of existence. They have been abused by the old-school physicians 
similar to the manner in which Richard A. Proctor abused Astrologers, 
by calling them all kinds of vile names, such as quacks, imposters, frauds, 
humbugs, etc. But the allopaths ought to bear in mind that abuse is 
the weakest of all arguments. I shall again refer to this subject further 
on in this volume. 

It is impossible to prove or disprove the science or practice of 
homeopathy by allopathy, or to prove or disprove allopathy by homeo- 
pathy. They each work or travel on different lines, and I might 
say in opposite directions, to accomplish the same result, and each must 
stand on its own merits, and prove its truth by its success in practice ; 
or, in other words, " The proof of the pudding must be in the eating of 
it." But the persecution and imprisonment of homeopathic physicians 
and calling them vile names does not prove the allopathic practice of 
medicine to be the only true and correct practice, neither does it dis- 
prove homeopathy. 

We have other remarkable illustrations of the folly of profes- 
sors of one science trying by their rules and laws to explode another 
science that is governed by altogether different principles and laws 
in the instances of electricity and mesmerism. During the time of 
Benjamin Franklin, over one hundred years ago, the science of elec- 
tricity was not in the developed condition that we find it in at the 
present day ; probably if it had been, the professors of that science would 
have attended to their own business, and would have left mesmerism 
alone to explode itself. But in those days the scientists must try 
their hand at exploding animal magnetism by the science of elec- 
tricity. So the French Academy of Science appointed a committee of 
savants, and among that committee was Benjamin Franklin, to examine 
into the theory and practice of Doctor Mesmer's animal magnetism, 
bat instead of investigating what was then termed mesmerism, and now 
called hypnotism, they brought what knowledge they had of the science 
of electricity to bear on the subject, and, of course, they could not help 
exploding it. Dr. Mesmer was declared to be a fraud and 
an impostor, and was driven out of Paris, and I believe out of 
France altogether — as the allopathic doctors drove Samuel Hahne- 
mtnn out of Germany. How much more the science of electricity 
might have been advanced at the present day had those learned men or 
savants given their whole attention to it and let mesmerism 
explode itself; in that case they might have discovered some method or 
law 6y which Benjamin Franklin's lightning rod would not have been 
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less in preventing buildings from being struck or set on fire by lightning. 
It did not require any committee of French savants to explode the 
lightning rod, as it exploded itself, and the Yankee peddlers no 
longer travel all over the Un'ted States and other countries boring and 
frightening almost to death the poor old farmers, and almost compel- 
ling them to have lightning rods put upon their stables, barns and 
houses : which expense is now saved, and the poor farmer is not 
swindled out of his earnings by swindlers called lightning-rod peddlers. 
In those days the general belief was that all tall buildings, as church 
steeples and other high structures, were more likely to be struck by 
lightning than low buildings. Therefore such buildings had to have 
lightning rods extending beyond the highest part of the structure or the 
owners could not get them insured; and yet we are having buildings put 
up at the present day from 20 to 30 stories high (called sky-scrapers), and 
none of the owners of these buildings ever dream of protecting them 
from lightning by Benjamin Franklin's lightning-rod. On the 
other hand, in spite of Franklin and the savants of France, mesmer- 
ism or hypnotism still lives and is growing, and is likely to grow 
and spread. 

Benjamin Franklin and the French savants were either deluded 
or mistaken in their investigation of mesmerism, or else the people of 
the present day are entirely mistaken in their notions on hypnotism. 
We have a remarkable instance of this in a murder trial in a Western 
State, where it was proved and admitted that a man murdered a 
young lady for the insurance money on her life, yet he was not executed 
but confined in prison as an accomplice. Another man, who had wit- 
nesses to prove an alibi, and also proved that it was impossible for him 
to have committed the deed, as he was miles away at the time of the 
murder, was brought in guilty by the jury, sentenced to death 
by the judge, and executed, because it was believed by the jury 
that he had mesmerized or hypnotized the man who had committed 
the murder. I refer to the case of Harry Hayward, who was hung 
at 2:10 a.m. on December nth, 1895, in Minneapolis, Minn.* 

"When the innocent is convicted, the judge is condemned." 

* STORY OF THE CRIME. 

The crime for which Harry Hayward was hanged was one of the most remarkable of tit is 
century. 

On the night of December 3, 1894, the body of Miss Catherine Ging was found in a tamarac 
swamp on the further shore of Lake Calhoun, a tew miles from Minneapolis, Minn. About the 
same time a horse, drawing an empty buggy, witli blood besmeared over the cushions and sides, 
walked into Gossman's livery stable, where it had been hired early in the evening by Miss 
Ging 

Rigid and searching inquiry was at once instituted by the authorities. It developed that 
Miss Ging had her life insured for $10,000, the policies being made payable to Harry Hayward. 

This directed suspicion toward him, and after being under surveillance for a lew days, he was, 
together with his brother Adry, taken in custody. 

As Hayward was at the theatre on the night of the murder, it was shown conclusively that he 
did not d the actual killing. 

Then Adry told a remarkable storv. He said that Harrv had plotted to kill Miss Ging for 
the life insurance money and wanted his assistance, which was refused. Some days before the 
murder Adry had told the story to L. M. Stewart, an old and respected citizen and long-time 
friend of the family. 

Mr. Stewart dismissed it as an idle yarn and onlv recalled it when the dead body of Miss 
Ging was found in the lonely tamarac swamp. Further investigation by the police developed the 



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How much more creditable it would have been to Dr. Franklin and 
how much higher he would now stand in the estimation of the learned 
world if he never had been colleagued with those French savants in 
exploding mesmerism it is very difficult to say, but being interested 
with them in assailing what is now a very interesting science 
under the name of hypnotism, he proved himself a dupe, even if his 
lightning-rod had not been a failure. 

His biographers who wrote his life nearly one hundred years a^o, 
take particular notice of his being interested with the French savants, 
and state particularly the great amount of good he did to the community 
by exposing Dr. Mesmer and his system of treating or curing disease. 
But at the present day Franklin's biographers, like Mr. Parton and 
others, whose works I have read of late, have all skipped 
over that part of Benjamin Franklin's life and do not even mention it, 
as they know it was a dishonor to Franklin and the savants of France 
to have been mixed up in any such disgraceful proceeding. 

I might go on giving hundreds of other illustrations of the folly of 
the professors of one science trying to explode another science by rules 
and laws which do not belong to the latter, similar to the pro- 
fessors of the science of Astronomy attempting to explode the science 
of Astrology by principles and laws which have no reasonable applica- 
tion. 

But Astronomers ought to bear in mind that Astrology is not a 
new science similar to Mesmerism or Phrenology, etc., but has been 
taught and practiced in all ages, as well as the present day. 

Outside of Europe and the United States there are more than three- 
fourths of the inhabitants of the globe who are firm believers in 
Astrology, and the more intelligent people who are living in those 
parts, such, as Turkey, the East Indies, China, Japan, and other 
nations, apply it in their everyday business, and in those countries 
the Astrologers are as they were in ancient times, mentioned in the 
Bible and other ancient histories, where the Kings, Emperors and 
Pharoahs consulted them in all important matters. In like manner to-day 
the Eastern Kings, Emperors and rulers never think of going to war or 
undertaking any business of importance without first consulting the 
Astrologers ; not only that, but no marriage of wealthy or noted 

fact that Hayward met Miss Ging that night and drove out as far as Thirteenth Street, where he 
was met by Clans Blixt, the janitor in the employ of his father. Blixt drove Miss Ging out Cal- 
houn road and shot her. He then came into town on foot, going to several places where he was 
known for the purpose of establishing an alibi. 

Hayward after leaving Miss Ging hurriedly retraced his steps and took a young society lady 
to the theatre, sitting through the performance apparently unconscious of the tragedy which was 
tli mi being enacted. Blixt was afterwards arrested and confessed to the actual killing. He was 
given a life sentence in the Stillwater Penitentiary. In telling his story lie claimed that 
Hay ward had him. in his power, exercising an influence over hint that it was impossible to 
resist. Hayward himseif was placed on trial, and despite the best legal talent that money couid 
buy, was found guilty of murder in the first degree and sentenced to death. The usual appeal to 
the higher courts was made and overruled 

A petition for clemency or commutation of the death sentence was denied by the chief execu- 
tive of the State Medical experts agree that the man was abnormal and totally devoid of all 
moral sense and signed the petition simply upon that point. 

The condemned refused all spiritual advice during his stay in jail and spent most of his time 
reviling and cursing his brother and others whom he charged with being responsible for his con- 
viction. — Copied from the New York Morning Journal, December n, 1895. 
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persons is ever celebrated or consummated without consulting an 
Astrologer, who by comparing their horoscopes determines whether the 
parties to be married will agree or live happily ; in other words, 
if it will be a fortunate marriage. Those who write on the 
subject of marriage in India and China, and who make use 
of Astrology in relation to marriage, and emigrants who come 
to this and other western countries, especially to Europe to 
lecture on these subjects, state that there is not one in a 
thousand of such marriages which is not successful and happy. 
In contrast to those marriages in India, China and Persia, I 
will simply give one instance or illustration, it is that of the 
Rev. Mr. Peters, who preached two sermons in a prominent church 
in New York City in the latter part of 1895. In the forenoon he 
preached on the evils and miseries that attended war, and pictured 
very vividly the distress and suffering which war caused. In the evening 
he preached on marriage and stated that the next thing to war in causing 
misery in this life was unhappy marriages. He stated that he had married 
over one thousand couples and scarcely one of that thousand were really 
happy marriages. He advised women not to get married, but devote 
themselves to charity and church duties instead. 

The New York Sun in an editorial made fun of the Rev. Mr. 
Peters by stating that a great many women who get divorces get them 
for no other purpose but the pleasure of getting married again, and they 
generally marry a second husband shortly after getting rid of the first. 

To give one proof of the importance that the Chinese place on the 
position of the planets at the time of birth in a child's horoscope, I will 
state that on the 25th of July, 1895, at 1 a.m., there was born at No. 26 
West 9th Street, New York City, a male child, the son of the Chinese 
Consul to New York ; the event and the time of the birth was of 
so much importance that the Consul went to the expense of cabling the 
news to China, to be sent at once to an Astrologer for its horoscope to 
be calculated. He did not wait for the news to travel by the fast 
mail. There is no doubt the Consul paid about $2.50 a word 
for the cablegram, which would appear a large sum in China. After 
the horoscope had been calculated the friends and relatives of the child 
living in China would take the horoscope to a number of their friends 
who had a girl born near or within a few years of the boy's time of 
birth, and they would compare the position of the planets in each of 
the horoscopes to see whether if they got married they would 
agree and be happy, or if it would turn out what is termed a happy 
marriage. For instance, the first thing they would look at in 
the male's horoscope would be to observe what aspect the Moon 
first made after the time of the child's birth, and they would see in this 
case it first made a conjunction of Venus in the sign Virgo, which is 
what we call a fortunate aspect for marriage. Then they would find 
what aspect the Sun made in the female's horoscope, whom they 
wish to negotiate with in regard to marriage. If the Sun made a good 
aspect of a good planet in a good house, that would be a favorable indi- 



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cation that she would live happy in her married life. They would also 
see whether the female would answer to the description of the planet 
Venus in the sign Virgo, which describes the future wife of that 
particular male's horoscope. For instance, the planet Venus in the sign 
Virgo would describe a rather tall, slender and slightly dark-complex- 
ioned person, with dark hair, oval face, round forehead and soft, 
expressive eyes ; she would be very refined, also intelligent, fond of 
music and the fine arts. In this manner they would go from on^ 
friend's house to another until they met with a female's horoscope near 
the same age that did agree in every particular with the one in hand, and 
when they did meet with a horoscope which agreed in almost every 
point they would then know that the couple would live happy when 
married, and in such cases it is generally decided in their infancy that 
they shall become man and wife when they come to their proper age or 
maturity. 

This line of study and investigation and consulting Astrologers on 
marriage has been practiced in China and in the East Indies and other 
countries for thousands of years, or from time immemorial, and with 
almost uniform success. In this work I shall insert the horoscope of the 
Chinese Consul's son and give the rules and principles which the people of 
China and the East adopt in arranging these marriages. 

These laws and rules are more thoroughly understood in those 
countries than even the principles and laws of breeding animals are 
understood in the United States and Europe at the present day, and the 
people there have continued this method of arranging mar- 
riages by the principles and rules of Astrology for a much longer 
period than the Western world has continued the breeding of domestic 
animals, such as horses, cows, sheep, dogs, etc. The people of Europe 
and America have by such methods of breeding and training brought 
these animals almost to perfection in their various departments of ani- 
mal culture within the last two or three hundred years. What an evo- 
lution in horses, both in the speed of running and trotting, and in their 
perfect form, and also in their^handsome appearance can be noticed in 
the thoroughbred horse, to say nothing about improvement in the breed 
of cows, sheep, dogs, pigeons, poultry, etc. I question whether the 
people in China and parts of Africa and the- East Indies would treat 
the method that we employ in breeding and training and bringing to 
such perfection the various animals that are used in America and 
Europe with the same contempt that the Western world treats 
Astrology and Astrologers at the present day. 

To give an illustration to prove this remark, I need only refer to an 
article which appeared in the New York Times on March 9th, 1895, 
as follows : 
" To the Editor of New York Times : 

" Dear Sir: — Please cast my daughter's horoscope; she was born at 8:35 
a.m. on July 2d, 1884, in New York City, and oblige 

Yours respt., Mrs. Maud S. 

" This letter is an exact copy of one that came to the Times office a few 
days ago ; it gives some idea of what strange problems are constantly and 



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confidently propounded for the journalist's solution. There is no reason to 
suspect that Mrs. Maud S. wrote otherwise than in perfect good faith, or 
that she does not really believe the data submitted to be sufficient basis for 
calculations of practical value. It would be easy to concoct a 'horoscope' 
more or less humorous and to connect it with the day and year she gives, 
but it would be rather dreary fooling at best. The letter makes so plain 
the mournful incompleteness of modern civilization, it betrays so clearly the 
persistent survival here and to-day of debasing superstitions, and it makes so 
terribly manifest the immeasurable harmful influences to which not a few 
children are subjected by well-meaning parents in the metropolis of an 
enlightened nation, that comment other than serious seems wholly out of 
place." 

From the tenor of the above letter it is evident that the editor of the 
New York Times is not a first-class Astrologer ; if he had been he 
would have either calculated the girl's horoscope or said nothing about 
it, therefore he is not qualified to give an opinion on the science. Had 
he lived in Babylon during the reign of Nebuchadnezzar he cer- 
tainly would not have been elected member of the public schools of 
that nation for being '-' ten times better than all the magicians 
and Astrologers in the realm." Neither would he have " been made 
master of all the magicians and Astrologers for his wisdom and under- 
standing of Astrology " (see Daniel, Chapter I., verse 20, and 5th 
chapter, verse 11). But on the contrary, his "debasing superstition" 
and his "immeasurable, harmful influence" would have caused him to 
be put at the foot of the class in those schools, or con- 
fined in a dungeon, if he had not had the sense to keep silent. 
"Therefore, it depends on the time and place, or on history and 
geography " whether any science or learning is a " debasing superstition " 
and subjects its advocates to persecution and imprisonment, or its 
professors are elevated to the highest positions in the realm, immedi- 
ately under the king or emperor. 

How different the editors of a newspaper in any part of India 
or China, or in any other Eastern country would have treated the letter 
of Mrs. Maud S. if the time of birth had been sent to them to have the 
horoscope calculated. As an instance of the importance the Chinese 
attach to the horoscope of a child and to the time of birth, I need only 
refer to the Chinese Consul, living at No. 26 West 9th Street, New 
York City, referred to on page 35. 

Had the editor understood Astrology, instead of exposing his igno- 
rance as he did, he might have inserted the horoscope of Mrs. Maud 
S.'s daughter and given the mother some very good advice, what line of 
business or what profession she was best adapted for, or any special tal- 
ents she possessed, and he might have warned the mother of certain con- 
tingencies or misfortunes which would befall the child, and which she 
might have guarded the child against if the mother could have obtained 
such information. 

As an illustration of what I mean I will here insert the horoscope of 
the above time of birth, which is written similar to thousands which I 
have published in daily and weekly newspapers, — The New York 



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Sunday News, The Illustrated American, Pittsburg (Pa.) Dispatch, 
Cincinnati Enquirer t Sunny South, Harrisburg Telegram, Louisville 
Courier- Journal, Manchester (N. H.) Mirror, etc. 

It is likely Mrs. Maud S. intended writing to the Sunday News, 
a paper I had been writing for about two years. 

Mrs. Maud S. 's daughter was born July 2d, 1884, at 8:35 a.m., 
N. Y. According to the time given above this young girl was born 
under the Sun in the sign Cancer, with Leo on the ascendant, Jupiter, 
Sun and Venus rising, and Saturn, Mercury and Neptune in the mid- 
heaven. 

When she comes to her full growth she will be near the medium 
height, rather slender when young, but will gradually become quite full 
built, and will at the age of 40 weigh 180 pounds; rather light com- 
plexion, light brown or almost flaxen hair (her hair will have a slight 
yellowish tinge when a child), slightly full face, round forehead, full, 
expressive eyes, rather prominent nose, have a straight, proud walk, 
fond of dress and decoration, and always have a yery neat, tidy appear- 
ance. The rules of Astrology say that she will be harmless, cheer- 
ful, pleasant, but at times indolent and not fond of employment or hard 
work, but inclined to dancing and recreation, and very fond of the com- 
pany of the opposite sex. 

On the whole she has a rather fortunate horoscope, and will never 
come to very low circumstances, or poverty, but will often be annoyed 
by treachery from secret enemies or near neighbors. 

She will generally enjoy fair health, and there is every probability of 
her living to be quite old. She will at times be troubled with some 
weakness of the back, kidneys and bladder, and palpitation of the heart, 
and danger of indigestion and tightness of the chest. She will have to 
avoid strong tea, coffee and stimulants and high-seasoned food; if not, 
she will suffer from nervousness, indigestion or weakness of the stomach, 
and liver. 

She is a person of very good intellect, will learn rapidly and be fond 
of the fine arts; also will excel in mathematics or anything that requires 
deep thought ; also be fond of Astrology, spiritualism, mesmerism, etc : 
She will have a fluent tongue and would succeed either as a public 
speaker or writer for newspapers or magazines. She will find it very 
difficult to retain money ; it will easily get out of her fingers, and 
she will be unfortunate in regard to lending or assisting friends with monev. 
She will marry to rather good advantage, but will not live over-happv ; 
she will keep company with a gentleman for a length of time who will 
be near or above the medium height, well built, rather light complexion, 
oval face, high forehead, hair receding from the temples, rather promi- 
nent nose and full expressive eyes ; great danger of disgrace or unhappi- 
ness caused by that gentleman, and it is impossible for her to marry him. 
Her husband will be above the medium height, rather slenderly built, 
will never become stout, thin face, high forehead, sharp nose, quick, 
penetrating eyes, dark complexion, with dark brown or black hair, 
will have a particularly straight or proud walk, be fond of dress and deco- 



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ration, but likely to soon becomejealous and cause her much unhappiness 
on that account, yet it is not probable they will separate, but he will not 
be long lived. 

She marries a second time and is much more fortunate. Her sec- 
ond husband will be near the medium height, slightly full built, rather 
pale complexion, roundish face and forehead, soft brown hair, rather 
sharp nose and soft expressive eyes, very gentle in his manners, and 
agreeable, fond of music and the fine arts. She will only have a small 
family of children, not more than three or four, chiefly boys, and they 
will often have poor health and not be much good to her. 

She has already had several evil aspects to pass by, which caused 
her health to suffer; one of those times was when she was a little over 
one year old, likely to have had a fever. Another at two years of age, 
but that was more likely to have been an accident or another fever, or 
some derangement of the stomach and intestines. Evil again at four^ 
seven and eight. Had an evil time in November and December, '92, 
and during February, March, May, June, July, August and September, 
'93— very likely sickness for herself or unhappiness in her family. 
Another marked evil time commenced in January, '95, and continued 
to April. Unfortunate again in October and November, '95. Then 
more fortunate to January 1st, '98, then marked evil to July 1st, '98; 
likely to have severe sicknesses or meet with some accident. Evil again 
in October, November and December, '98; a particularly evil time 
from February 1st to the end of December, '99 ; then fortunate to June 
1st, 1900 ; then evil to September 1st, 1900. The year 1903 will be 
evil, but more fortunate then until she is 21. She will be keeping 
company and may possibly marry, but doubtful at 21, but more likely 
to have the unhappiness connected with the light complexioned, full 
built gentleman at that time and not marry until she is near or a little 
over 23. 

Further on I will insert the map of the heavens at the time of 
birth of Mrs. Maud S.'s daughter and give the rules and principles that 
govern in calculating this and other nativities ; then the reader will be 
able to see what the principles of Astrology are and judge " how 
plain the mournful incompleteness of modern civilization" is and which 
fl betrays so clearly the persistent survival here and to-day of the debas- 
ing superstition, and how terribly manifest the immeasurable, harmful 
influence, to which not a few children are subjected by well-meaning 
parents in the metropolis of an enlightened nation." 

When the reader comes to study the science of Astrology, which I 
hope to make very plain and easy to learn in this volume, he will be 
equally astonished at the ignorance and debasing superstition of the edi- 
tors of the New York Times. If these editors are so ignorant and 
superstitious, what must be the condition of their readers ? It must be 
deplorable in the extreme. " The stream never rises higher than its 
source." If these newspaper editors went no further than calling the 
Astrologer and his science improper names and only wrote about the 
debasing superstition of the science of Astrology, I might let the matter 



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pass, but every Astrologer knows by dear bought experience the amount 
of persecution he has had to go through on account of the ignorance 
and superstition of newspaper editors, but more especially the ignorance 
and superstition of editors of religious periodicals and ministers of the 
Gospel. The Astrologer in nearly all Western countries is not only con- 
signed to everlasting torment in another world, but he has to go 
through all kinds of persecution and imprisonment in this world, and 
nearly all those countries have laws enacted for the special purpose of 
suppressing Astrology. I will here give a few facts as illustrations of the 
above statement. When my father died, about the year 1847, I was 
then a little over 18 years old. The minister of the church we attended, 
as soon as he learned of the death of my father, came to the house to 
talk to my oldest brother ; he spent a whole afternoon trying to 
convince my brother of the wickedness of the practice of Astrology, 
and even stated that my father's soul was burning in hell fire at that 
moment for the wicked act of having practiced that science, and that my 
brother would have to suffer the same torments if he did not reform and 
be converted.* A few years after the death of my father my sister 
being in poor health, went as a patient to Leeds Infirmary. [The insti- 
tution referred to in the note below.] While there she became acquainted 
with a young girl who had formerly lived as a servant with William 
Seed, an old friend of my fathers, and who had published an astrologi- 
cal almanac for many years in Leeds, England, f When the servant 
knew that ray sister was acquainted with Mr. Seed, and that he had 
often visited our house, they became very good friends. 

One of the ladies who visited the infirmary to pray with and con- 
vert the patients, in some way found out that the servant had lived at 
the house of William Seed, and the lady spoke to the girl in this man- 
ner : " How was it that you lived with such a wicked man as that ? " 
The girl made answer by saying: "Mr. Seed was a very good man, 
and he read his Bible and said his prayers every night and morn- 
ing." The lady made answer by saying: "If he did pray, he prayed 
to the devil." I might give a number of other illustrations similar to 
the above of the ignorance, prejudice and superstition of religious com- 
munities and of newspaper editors, but will only mention a few instances 
of my own persecutions. 

In 1866 I rented an entire floor for a lecture hall and resi- 
dence at 814 Broadway, opposite nth Street, New York; there 
I gave lectures four or five times a week on Astrology, Phre- 
nology, etc., and on Sunday afternoons and evenings I lec- 

* I ought to state here that my father did not practice Astrology publicly, but simply did it 
for his friends and acquaintances, and solely for their benefit and without pay. In his early 
years he had studied Astrology and medicine with his father, and was of much assistance to his 
neighbors and friends in giving them advice in case of sickness and trouble. He was for several 
years an assistant house physician in Leeds Infirmary with his eldest brother, but later left that 
institution. His elder brother practiced medicine afterwards and continued in that profession all 
his life and was remarkably successful, while my father went into the manufacturing business of 
linen and woolen cloth, he having a dye house and dyed his own goods. 

t My eldest brother also published an astrological almanac similar to that of Mr. William 
Seed, and of Raphael's of London, also for many years he published a monthly periodical called 
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turecT on Natural Theology and other sciences, and also on 
moral or religious subjects. While giving these lectures I met with all 
kinds of persecution which the enemies of Astrology could possibly 
invent ; not only were the people who came to the meetings insulted in 
the passage way, but all other kinds of annoyances that could possibly 
interfere with the meetings were practiced. They even turned off 
the water, so that we had to get a supply from the neighbors. 
While I was lecturing, rowdies who were hired for that purpose, 
would go into the room above and raise heavy benches as high as 
they could and let them drop on the floor right over our heads, so as to 
confuse me in my lecture, and every other kind of disturbance they 
could think of or invent was practiced. This was continued for nearly 
two years. Finally, on account of my wife's delicate health, she being 
near confinement, I was compelled to move out of the building to save 
her life; the child died within three days after her confinement in simi- 
lar spasms that she suffered from while the noise and disturbance was 
going on. My wife often became unconscious and flighty on 
account of the noise over our heads. One night it was all I could do 
to prevent her from tearing the hair out of her head and committing 
other violence. She never fully recovered from the suffering and dis- 
tress which she endured in that building, and was never herself again 
afterwards. On the night above referred to, the police came from the 
street on account of hearing such Qoise and disturbance and asked me 
what was all that noise about. I told them I did not know, so they 
went up to the room and arrested the whole party on their own responsi- 
bility and took them to the Police Court. My wife being very ill, it 
was impossible for me to leave her, therefore I requested Mr. W. H. 
Chaney, who was at that time assisting me in my lectures, to go and make 
complaint of the misconduct of the rowdies in the room above. 
The rowdies were discharged the next morning, and a day or two 
afterwards Mr. Chaney was arrested for false imprisonment* and he lay 

* It was James McDermott, a son-in-law of the landlord, Alexander Eagleson, mentioned 
above, who got the order of arrest for Mr. Chaney, and James McDermott accompanied 
the officers and Mr. Chaney to Ludlow Street jail, tantalizing him all the way. While 
Mr. Chaney was in jail he was tried by a judge and jury who awarded James Mc- 
Dermott $100 damages. Mr. Chaney 01 his lawyer knew nothing about the trial or judgment 
until long afterwards. When Mr. Chaney was discharged from jail he made application to the 
Court to have the case reopened. After his lawyer had made the plea for a new 
trial, he stated that Mr. Chaney also wished to say a few words. The judge said he 
"hoped he would make them very short, as he knew all about the case.'' Mr. Chaney put 
this question to the judge, '' Did you know when you impanelled the jury and had the witnesses 
sworn in this case that the complainant had me locked up in jail and I knew nothing about the 
trial?" The judge made answer by saying that he did not know. It is evident that the judge 
told a deliberate falsehood on the bench, as he just stated before that "lie knew all about the 
case.'' There is no doubt that a vast number of other trials conducted as that of Mr. Chaney's has 
occurred in New York and other cities. Mr. Chaney could never get a new trial and a judgment of 
$100 stands against him to-day. 

Previous to the disturbances above related, Mr. Chaney made the remark to me that while he 
was district attorney in Bangor, Maine, also in Iowa, and when he owned and edited daily 
papers, *hat he often had prayed to be sent to prison and yet be innocent. This was a case 
in which sprayer was answered. Mr. Chaney went to make the complaint at my request, and 
did so solely to oblige me. 

I never could find out whether that was a trap set by the police, they going into the room 
and arresting the rowdies on their own responsibility, then afterwards getting us to make charges 
against them, so that those rowdies could have us arrested for false imprisonment. The 
attention of the police was attracted by the large crowd in the street, which the noise on the 
floor above us had been the means of collecting. See appendix page 453. 



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in Ludlow Street jail over six months. I was also arrested for publish- 
ing an account of the outrage, which the lawyers construed into a 
libel and sued me for $10,000 damages. After a great deal of worry 
and anxiety, and one delay after another, the trial at last came off after 
several years, and the landlord who sued me and whose name was Alex- 
ander Eagleson, got six cents damages. I might here state that all the 
parties who attended the meetings were very well pleased and satisfied 
with the lectures, and they could not understand why the persecution 
was continued against me, but it was the religious community, chiefly 
the Catholics, who no doubt believed that if it became known that the 
events of life were governed by fixed laws, it would in some way 
interfere with their answers to prayer and divine providence and their 
religious services. On account of the misrepresentations of the New 
York Herald's reporter, one Sunday night, the Sergeant of the Police 
Station in Mercer Street came with a large number of police officers in 
citizens' clothes, to arrest all parties who attended the meeting, along 
with the lecturer, and take them to the Mercer Street Station. 
That night Mr. Charles Stewart, of Newark, New Jersey, was 
lecturing on Natural Theology, chiefly in its relations to the heav- 
enly bodies and the goodness of God. After the meeting the Sergeant 
told me the reason they came was that they were sent by the 
authorities of the city to arrest all parties in the hall, but as the lecture 
was such a good one, and its moral influence was also so good, they had 
their journey for nothing, and that he would do all he could to influ- 
ence the authorities to prevent us from being disturbed in the future. 
He stated that he wished there were hundreds of lectures of that kind in 
the city every Sunday night ; it would be a good thing for the people. 

Detectives were employed for years to follow me ; they even 
followed me into the houses when I visited my patients under the pre- 
tense of asking the lady of the house questions, but with all their skill, 
ingenuity and perseverance they were never able to get any charges 
against me. Some years afterwards I loaned some furniture to a person 
on Long Island ; that furniture was seized for debt incurred by the 
party to whom it was loaned. When I went to obtain it the 
sheriff told me I could not have the furniture unless I replevined it, and 
that it would cost me as much as it was worth. But after looking at me a 
short time he said, " I know vou ; did you not once live at 8 14 Broadway, 
New York ?" I told him I did. He then went with me to the man who 
had seized the furniture and said, " I know this man ; he is all right." 
They gave up the goods without another word, and even carted the 
furniture to the railroad station. This sheriff told me he had been 
employed for a long time to follow my steps when he was a detective in 
New York, and he said he knew me well and had been in my house 
numbers of times. 

Not only was I persecuted as above related, but my mail was inter- 
cepted and opened by those detectives to try and get evidence against 
me, and the money in letters sent to me was extracted and the letters 
destroyed, and when it was only a few dollars they quietly put the 



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money into their pockets and thus destroyed my business and my repu- 
tation. 

A gentleman whom I became acquainted with while I was living in 
Philadelphia, an old patient of mine, who resided in New Jersey, and had 
read mv publications a number of years, sent me a letter containing a 
$50 bill to pay for some goods I had purchased for him and sent 
him. The letter was opened and destroyed and the money taken out 
and returned to the writer with the following letter, written in back- 
hand, so as to disguise the handwriting: 

" New York, March 31, 1866. 

" Sir : — There is an old saying that a fool and his money are soon 
parted. 

" Fortunately the $50 sent by you to Dr. Broughton fell into the hands 
of an honest man, who now returns it to you with the advice that you 
will keep your money and not send it to any Quack of an Astrologist, who 
can no more nor as well tell you what will happen to you, as you can guess 
at it yourself. If you don't need the money give it to some one that does, 
and not to any 'Star Gazer' or 'Planet Reader' who makes his money by 
gulling ignorant people out of their hard earnings. No humbug of a for- 
tune teller can do yon five cents' worth of good, nor tell you anything 
except what he may guess or invent. Your letter was sent to me by mis- 
take or your $50 would have been thrown to the dogs. See if you can't put 
the money to a better use. A Friend." 

The writer of the above letter said the $50 was sent to him by mis- 
take. That person told a deliberate falsehood ; it was sent to my 
address, and had it not been intercepted like other letters it would have 
reached me, as it was directed plainly to Dr. L. D. Broughton, 8 1 4 
Broadway, New York City, and at that time there was not another Dr. 
L. D. Broughton in New York, or for that matter, in the whole 
United States. The man who had sent me the money re-inclosed the 
$50 in another envelope, and also the letter of the man who had inter- 
cepted my mail, but who was " too honest a Friend " to put his 
name and address to the letter, so as to let my correspondent know who 
that " Friend " was, so that he might write to him and thank him 
for his kindness and the interest he had taken in his welfare. 

If the letter had only contained two or three dollars this " Friend" 
would have put the money in his pocket and not said a word about it, 
the same as he had done with scores of other letters, but he thought there 
might possibly be some inquiry about the $50 and he might get into 
trouble if he was found out, or the $50 bill was traced to the thief. 
Besides the " Friend " evidently knew all about me and my business and 
knew exactly where I lived, and could have forwarded the letter to me 
if so disposed. But no doubt this friend had authority from the New 
York Post Office and the police authorities in the city to intercept all 
my mail so as to get evidence to convict me of some crime and thus 
send me to prison if it was possible. 

For many years, both before and after 1866, I received letters from 
parties scolding me and using all kinds of rough language, stating 
that they had sent money to me ; but as 1 had not received their 



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former letters or the money, of course I could not write their horoscopes 
or answer their questions or send them instructions. I always wrote to 
the parties to that effect. My letters being stolen in the post office was 
a great damage and loss to me in my business. 

Even as late as May, 1895, when I was writing horoscopes for the 
Louisville Courier- Journal to be published free in that paper, for 
any person who would send time and place of birth to the editor, 
the Courier- Journal had to discontinue publishing horoscopes. The 
managing editor, Chas. B. Pierce, wrote to me May 16, 1895, the 
following : 

"The postal authorities gave us very decided notice that if we accepted 
any remuneration for the service, either by way of furnishing private horo- 
scopes or advancing their publication, they would stop the transit of our 
paper in the mail. We did not care to make an issue of the question with 
the postal authorities, so discontinued publishing the horoscopes." 

In the United States we are said to live in a free country, where we 
have free speech, free discussion and liberty of the press, and yet news- 
papers like the Louisville Courier- Journal are not allowed to publish 
horoscopes free to their readers without having their paper stopped from 
going through the mail. Is it not time that the subject of Astrology 
was investigated by the light of reason and science, and the people per- 
mitted to find out whether the science is true or false ? For years when- 
ever I went to the post office to lay a complaint of my mail being 
intercepted and the money taken out, I got nothing but insults from the 
postmasters or those I spoke to, and I was told that no such letter had 
ever been sent to me. In Philadelphia, before I moved to New York, 
my letters were rifled, the money taken out, and when I went to the 
post office and stated the facts, I got nothing but rebuffs. Shortly 
after I moved to New York the letter carrier in that district was 
arrested for opening other parties' letters and taking money from them ; 
as he had acquired the habit of opening my mail and taking the money 
out, he continued the habit and opened other persons' mails. He was 
arrested, prosecuted and sent to prison for ten years. 

Possibly there is not a country in the world where Astrologers 
have been more persecuted than they have been in England, especially 
within the last hundred years. If a person went to consult an Astrolo- 
ger and paid him a sixpence or a shilling, which was marked so that he 
could swear to it, he could have the Astrologer's house broken into and 
searched, and have him arrested with no other evidence than the 
marked sixpence or shilling found on the Astrologer, just the same as if 
the Astrologer had stolen the shilling from the party. In short, they 
hunted Astrologers down as we read in history they formerly hunted 
witches and wizards. There were detectives and police especially 
employed to prosecute them. A gentleman, an Astrologer, whom my 
eldest brother knew well, and who resided in Manchester, England, was 
arrested and sent to prison on no evidence than the fact that there were 
several respectable ladies who were waiting for their turn to see him in 
his parlor. But of late years the tide is turning and it looks as if 



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Astrology is going to be as respectable, if not more so, than any other 
profession, and similar to what it was in ancient times, as we read in 
history and the Bible, especially in Daniel. -■■■ 

I copy the following from the Arena of January, 1893, published 
by B. O. Flower, Boston, Mass., and it tells the story about the change 
going on in London, England. I will here state that the Arena is the 
most liberal and fair-minded periodical that I know of in the United 
States, and I would advise all my readers to subscribe for it, and they 
will find it to their advantage by so doing : 

ASTROLOGY IN LONDON. 
By Edgar Lee. 

" As a proof that in Enlgand there is some disposition being shown to 
deal in a more broad-minded way with those who practice Astrology, I will 
instance the following: At the beginning of the past year the somewhat 
popular and largely circulated organ, Society, began to devote a certain por- 
tion of its space every week to Astrology. Articles appeared not always by 
the same hand, but under the same nom de guerre of 'Jupiter,' and in a 
short time the paper was simply overwhelmed with correspondence from 
every part of the three kingdoms. A contemporary of undeniable clever- 
ness, which has, like most of the so-called 'smart ' journals of the epoch of 
no very ancient pedigree, attacked Society, and particularly 'Jupiter,' and 
called seriously upon the public prosecutor to enforce the law upon this per- 
son ,• and when that functionary was perverse enough to be imperturable to 
the somewhat ferociously worded advice, it followed up the attack by fierce 
personalities, more suggestive of editorial amenties in California twenty years 
ago than Fleet Street and the Strand in 1892. Well, the criminal 
authority at Queen Victoria's treasury remained passive, and the reason 
is not far to seek. Public opinion on the subject of Astrology in 
England has undergone a startling change ; and a prosecution by the 
State at the present juncture, and more especially immediately before the 
elections, would have been a trifle too daring for the most reckless govern- 
ment to indulge in. The professors of Astrology in England are legion 
and they include an immense number of charlatans ; indeed, it may be 
broadly stated that the charlatans outnumber the genuine Astrologers in the 
proportion of three to one; hence it is so desirable that some authoritative 
organ which could write on astrologic topics without fear of making itself 
amenable to the law should be established, if only for the purpose of acting 
as a finger-post to those who are seeking the truths of astral lore. 

"Among the genuine Astrologers one must again distinguish between 
those who maybe termed intuitive and those who base their predictions on 
absolute mathematics. The latter are the more numerous section and to 
the reasonable mind the more reliable 5 the former, on the other hand, 
probably possess a larger following, since their deductions are far more 
rapid and alwavs more startling than their slower brethren. 

"Among the intuitive Astrologers I rank in the first flight the seer of the 
Charing Cross Road, whose predictions for the past forty years approach the 
marvellous.* This man practically of independent means, is the scion of an 
illustrious name in the annals of London's civic history, and is the son and 
grandson of two men who both practiced as Astrologers back into the last 
century, and were accounted as the leaders of the cult. This old gentle- 
man has been consulted by peer and peasant} the late Prince Consort bore 

* Henry J. Dukes, who has since died. 



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witness to his skill 5 the first Lord Lytton, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, 
and the late Lord Beaconsfield, when Mr. Disraeli, frequently interviewed 
him, and to this day his house is visited by many of our leading ladies and 
gentlemen in society, while more than one of our commercial magnates and 
stock exchange speculators seek his advice on personal matters, 

" Then again, in the Caledonian Road, close to King's Cross, is to be 
found another 'intuitional. 1 * One of our chief lady novelists, whose works 
are well-known to the American public — I refer to Florence Marryat — can 
bear witness to the astonishing power of prognostication possessed by this 
hoary wizard whose fame extends far beyond the metropolis of England. 

" In the month of June, 1887, another famous Astrologer within sound 
of Bow Bells was consulted by a journalist on a subject of considerable 
import to himself. Queen Victoria's jubilee ceremony was to take place 
the following day, and the journalist had received instructions from his edi- 
tor to be present in Westminster Abbey to describe the event at length. In 
view of the enormous number of tickets issued by the Lord Chamberlain to 
view the splendid spectacle, hundreds of workmen had been employed for 
several days in rigging up seats in the interior of the sacred edifice, and the 
vast quantity of timber employed suggested to the anarchists a ready means 
of bringing about a perfect holocaust of victims. The threats of these gen- 
try to destroy at one fell blow the heirs apparent of several European dynas- 
ties were overheard in a low Soho cabaret by the detectives who are ever 
lurking about that notorious quarter. The whole conspiracy soon got wind 
and found its way into the newspapers, with the result that certain feeble 
folks who had obtained tickets became alarmed, and the press loudly 
demanded extra police precautions, so that a horrible catastrophe might be 
averted. The particular journalist of whom I speak was among the alarmed 
ones, and his wife, a believer in Astrology, insisted on his consulting with 
the ' intuitional ' of her choice. The oracle replied (the minute of interro- 
gation was his guide) : * There is not the slightest fear of anything happen- 
ing to-morrow. Jupiter, who rules Her Majesty, is in his full dignity, and 
nothing sinister could possibly occur. There is, however, likely to be an 
accident to some one, who, though not royal, is in some way connected 
with the royal house, and it would appear as though it were a horse acci- 
dent.'' It will be remembered by many that on the morning of the cere- 
mony the Marquis of Lome, while in the park en route to join the proces- 
sion, was thrown from his charger and sufficiently injured to prevent his 
taking part in the proceedings. 

" That same night while the journalist was making this inquiry, two 
other querents applied to the Astrologer, both asking a question as to the 
safety of the Abbey on the morrow. The reply given by the Astrologer was 
naturally a repetition of his previous answer, whereupon the younger of the 
two visitors, who spoke English imperfectly, asked for a forecast of his own 
career. After ascertaining minutely the hour of birth and the latitude and 
longitude of the birthplace, the Astrologer inquired if he were by profession 
a soldier, and the reply was that he held rank in a foreign army. ' Your end 
will be sudden and by lead, 1 said the Astrologer, 'and, so far as I can see, 
the end is so near that it is not worth while casting the nativity.' The 

* Thos. Wilson, a watchmaker of London, was called upon by Princess Victoria, accom- 
panied by her guardian — her aunt — and requested him to erect and read her horoscope, which he 
did to her satisfaction Mr. Wilson came to New York some years ago and did business at 28th 
.Street and Third Avenue, but returned to London the latter part of 1866, and died only a few 
years ago. Some six or seven years ago Mr. Wilson was arrested in London for practicing 
Astrology. He told the judge that he had been in practice over fifty years and this was the first 
time lie was ever molested. The judge said that " if you are ever Drought before me again I shall 
have to hold you ; " then discharged him. Mr. Wilson was at that time nearly eighty years 
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young man laughed at the time, but it afterwards transpired that he was the 
Archduke Rudolf of Austria, whose melancholy and tragic demise will be 
still fresh in the memory of the reader. 

"I could record many other instances of the abnormal development of 
the intuitive faculty in the astrologic seers, but I will now come to an exam- 
ple of what purely mathematical Astrology can accomplish. An Astrolo- 
ger, long resident in London, and who was alive until very recently, 
belonged to that section which regards prediction by astral calculation as 
an exact science. He received a mysterious visit from a stranger in 
September of 1869, who asked him whether, in view of the complications 
then arising in Central Europe, he could fix on a date when Prussia might 
advantageously quarrel with France. At this timethe Luxemberg Sucession 
had assumed a perilous aspect, while the aspirations of the Hohenzollern 
family to the Spanish crown had already been the subject of serious diplo- 
matic uneasiness to more than one foreign minister. * I must first,' said the 
Astrologer, be placed in possession of the actual birth moments of King Wil- 
liam of Prussia, Count Bismarck, Count von Moltke, the Emperor of the 
French and his consort and Marshal Leboeuf. It would be as well, too, 
that I should have the dates of the coronation of the first King of Prussia, 
of the Hohenzollern dynasty, and the coronation day of Napoleon I.' 

" ' And supposing,' returned the stranger, 'that these are supplied you, 
how long will it be before you arrive at a decision ?' 

"'It may possibly take me a week or more,'' rejoined the other, and the 
inquirer on this left him abruptly. In due course the necessary particulars 
were supplied, and after an immense amount of labor the Astrologer 
reported that the best moment for the Prussian King to flount France would 
be some hour in the afternoon, as nearly as possible midway between the 
9th and 14th of July, 1870. The stranger paid nothing for this advice at 
the time, but preserving his incognito, disappeared from the Astrologer's 
ken. Who does not know the exact date when France heard with indigna- 
tion that William had turned on his heel in Unter den Linden when 
approached by M. Benedetti, the emissary of the Tuilleries ? Is not the 
nth and 12th of July graven on every Germany memory ? While as for the 
result of the alleged snub, do not millions of Frenchmen remember to their 
cost the result of this strangely astral calculation ? In the February of 1871, 
when the iron-girt city of Paris was in its last throes, the Astrologer 
receive a letter passed through the German military lines containing Berlin 
billets de banque to the amount of two hundred pounds sterling, with the 
simple words on a plain sheet of paper, ' With thanks of Germany.' 

"From J879 to 1888 palmistry was the dominant occult attraction of 
the majority of our West End ' At Homes.' No hostess could be deemed 
to have filled up her evenings satisfactorily unless a cheiromant of the first 
quality formed part of the entertainment. Heron Allen's books on the 
fascinating study had obtained a somewhat wide circulation, and the ama- 
teur cheirosophist was everywhere en evidence. Sometimes these interest- 
ing reunions would be diversified by the appearance of a physiognomist who 
after a short lecture on the wonderful index to character which the features 
provide would entertain the assemblage by practical illustrative experiments 
on the subjects present, many of which, as may be imagined, were very 
amusing. Sometimes — but these occasions were rare — a calligraphist 
would appear on the scene — Madame Volski, for example, whose remarka- 
ble delineations of character from handwriting have excited the wonderment 
of more than one European crowned head. Lesser lights than Madame 
Volski would often try their more 'prentice hands in the same direction, but 
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demand for a science which shall hanje more of the elements of exactitude 
has become general. During the present London season I, myself, person- 
ally know one Astrologer numbering his votaries by the thousand, who has 
been invited to at least twenty social gatherings of the upper ten, and who 
has been offered large fees for his attendance. I need scarcely say the 
absurd act of Parliament, which prevents his taking money in the exercise 
of his astrologic vocation, has hindered his acceptance of these calls on his 
time, and as a consequence has resulted in a loss to him of considerable 
emolument. 

" Now as to works on Astrology, which are becoming rarer every year, 
it may astonish the reader to learn that there are at least one hundred and 
fifty authors of all sorts and conditions who have penned volumes during the 
last two centuries to be found in many a collection owned by the richer 
class of Englishmen. The prices now of most of these books are prohibi- 
tive, but there are certain well-established Astrologers to whom stocks of 
such cooks have been handed down by their forefathers, and who do a 
thriving trade by their sale. It may be noted as a singular fact — and I 
think that the celebrated society of * Odd Volumes,' as well as one of their 
principal members, M. Quaritich, the biggest book buyer in the world, will 
bear witness to the truth of my assertion — that at nearly all great book auc- 
tions, works on Astrology are conspicuous by their absence. The reason 
for this is that your astrologic enthusiast scarcely ever permits them to come 
into the market if he knows of their existence, and even as the whereabouts 
of the valuable picture or etching is known to the dealers, and is generally 
snapped up before coming under the hammer, so also is the whereabouts of 
most esoteric books, especially those appertaining to the movements of the 
planets in their relation to man. In connection with Astrology another 
point has lately cropped up; it is true that it is only a side issue, but it is so 
interesting to the world at large that I cannot close this paper without men- 
tioning it. There are first, sight repulsions between certain people for 
which there is no accounting by any fixed rule. A enters a ball-room or 
the coffee-room of a hotel for the first time and sees B. Neither had ever 
seen the other before ; neither knows anything of one another. They are 
both well-dressed, respectable-looking people, so that no repugnance can 
possibly spring up on either side on the score of appeal nee ; yet in both 
their minds has lodged a dislike for each other, which can sometimes 
never can be wholly eradicated. 

" The new Saturnian theory on this subject is a little abstruse, but it is 
equally remarkable. These people are positives and negatives, brought 
about through their being born under different conditions of Saturn's light, 
i. e., the positives will be born when the light is shining on the earth direct 
from the nucleus, the negatives when the light is shining through or being 
intercepted by the ring. Astronomers will raise their hands in pious horror 
at such superstitious teachings, but let the Astronomer shut himself up in 
his observatory and be for the nonce forgotten, while the reader tests the 
matter for himself. Imagine the dial plate of a clock and let the figures 
from one to twelve be taken to represent January to December. It is a 
cycle without beginning or end, i. e., November and January are not nine 
months away from one another, but only one month intervenes. This is 
the threshold of the theory. A is born in January, B in June; A and B 
will have a repugnance for one another, or if not an actual repugnance each 
will intentionally or unwittingly always injure the other. So will other 
months, February and July, October and April, July and December. To 
quote briefly from this singular and novel hypotheses after its creator had 
exhausted his scientific reasons for the light of Saturn, exercising so direct 



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an evil effect on mankind, goes on to say : " Men have talked on the 
theory of repulsion by electro-biology, magnetism, and tried to account for 
it in that way. It is something in the air, say others, but there is nothing 
satisfactory in these suggestions, and the fact that some people are without 
apparent reason distinctly repellent to other people exists and remains. The 
reason is purely and wholly Saturnian ; and although the demonstration 
until now is not very perfect, as it has only been discovered quite recently, 
it is sufficiently perfect to suggest patient inquiry to render it more so. You 
will always or nearly always find when this feeling of repulsion comes over 
you that the birthday of the object of your dislike is four, five or six months 
away from your own, and the farther away it is the more certain and intense 
the dislike. The year matters little unless it be seven, fourteen and a half, 
twenty-two or twenty-nine years from yours, these being the dates of Saturn's 
squares. Two individuals born in the same month, if they come together in 
business, get along swimmingly. In the case of husband and wife they are 
indeed too fond, and such a match frequently produces jealousy, but let the 
husband be born in May and the wife in November, and the result will be 
disastrous. Let any one who reads this and disbelieves it cast his or her 
memory back and try to remember the person who brought them the most 
harm, either with intention or by accident. They will be surprised at the 
corroborative evidence such inquiry will produce. Naturally there are 
exceptions, but these exceptions prove the rule, etc. 

"Later on the same writer quoted the divorce court in support of his 
theory and gives numerous instances from history of positives and negatives, 
who had destroyed one another, cites curious facts connected with the 
regard borne by the Queen for her various relations, and altogether fur- 
nishes a very pretty array of facts. The theory, however, requires a con- 
vention of Astrologers to sit on and analyze it before it can hope to be 
accepted, and meanwhile Ptolemy, pure and simple, with the addenda of 
Uranus and Neptune, to correct some of his unavoidable errors, with the 
sometimes vexed question of the influence of the asteroids — these will remain 
faith and gospel of the English student of Astrology for the present." 

If all writers who had written either for or against Astrology had 
been as liberal minded as Mr. Edgar Lee, I should not have had to 
write and publish this book, and Astrology would have been recognized 
throughout the Christian nations as one of the established sciences, but 
through some fatality which is. difficult to understand the people in all 
Christian countries have followed the injunctions of the Bible to the let- 
ter where it says, " Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live" and in their 
ignorance the people have included Astrologers in the class of witches 
and wizards, and they have been condemned unheard and convicted 
without trial and even without evidence. It is generally supposed, and 
it is even a theory in law, that a person is innocent until he is convicted ; 
but Astrologers do not come under that class. Even in the case of Mrs. 
Fleming, of New York City, who was indicted by the Grand Jury for the 
murder of her mother, a judge of the Supreme Court decided that she was 
an innocent woman until convicted, and that she had a perfect right to 
inherit a certain amount of property which was to come to her by will, 
through the death of her mother, and for the murder of whom she was 
just going to be tried. Should it ever come to be known throughout 
the whole civilized world that Astrology is as much a science and no 
more wicked than the practice of the science of arithmetic, the peoole 



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will then begin to open their eyes and wonder whether the whole com- 
munity in Christian countries are not practically insane, and the man 
that was confined in a lunatic asylum was more than half right in his 
answer when asked how it was that such a sensible man was confined in 
such an institution. When people come to think of the millions of dol- 
lars that have been wasted by the judiciary in hunting down and 
bringing to trial and convicting innocent people called Astrologers, 
also the money that has been spent in confining those innocent people 
in prisons, and often in hanging them and burning them alive — if all 
that money, time and effort had been spent in advancing civilization 
and human happiness, how much better it would have been for the 
whole people of those countries? xAnd when it comes to be found out 
that Astrology is the most useful of sciences, and of more reai practical 
benefit to humanity at large than any other science that was ever 
known, they will be ready to exclaim in the words of Shakespeare, 
" What fools these mortals be." 



It may be asked bv the reader, if I am a qualified person 
to write on the subject of Astrology, and understand that science 
sufficiently myself to be able to teach it to others. 1 will let 
the following correspondence speak for itself. 1 make it public with- 
out any scruples of conscience, as there was nothing in these letters 
understood to be private when written, and which passed through the 
mail to the different parties whose names are mentioned below. The 
first letter that I shall call the reader's attention to is one from Mr. O. 
D. Bragdon, Boston, Mass., which reads as follows: 

Boston, Mass., March 9th, 1894. 
Dr. L. D. Broughton, 

Dear Sir : — Some days since I received a copy of " Planetary Influ- 
ence, " published by yourself, with nothing to indicate positively from whom 
the publication came. I have taken the liberty of inferring that you were the 
sender, and take this opportunity of thanking you, and at the same time of 
assuring you of my high estimation and appreciation of the sentiments and 
opinions you therein set forth. I have for many years been an admirer of 
yours, particularly when I have been able to catch a glimpse of your " fine 
Italian hand " in some press contribution, or in perusing some of the older pro- 
ductions of yours of the war times. I trust that at sometime I may have 
the pleasure of meeting and thanking you personally. 

I am just in receipt of a letter (copy of which I inclose you) from a Mr. 
A. N. Doersch.uk, of Kansas City, Mo., dated February 2, which purports 
to have been addressed by Mr. T. E. Wilson, librarian to the New York 
World, making a peculiar kind of request, and I have taken the liberty of 
advising him that I have referred his letter to you, as being more properly 
one of th e best, if not the foremost man in the science in America. I do this 
because I believe your wide experience and evident long researches in our 
beloved science have best fitted you to become the American champion in 
such questions, provided this inquiry is made in good faith. Ifitisnot, 
your acquaintance with the constitution and pulse of the New York World 
makes you better able to treat the disease from which it suffers. Whatever 
your course in the matter may be, I feel fully assured it must be the best 
one that could be adopted, and if there is anything I can do to aid you for 



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best results to our science, you may command me. My recollection is that 
the New York World has avowed itself the enemy of Astrology, whether its 
writers are ignorant of or acquainted with the laws of the science I know 
not. Perhaps you are better able to judge of the genuineness or good faith of 
the request of Mr. Doerschuk. Certainly February 2d was a peculiar day 
from which to date or inaugurate such an investigation if it was really done 
in good faith. 

I shall be pleased to learn your conclusions as to the matter and stand 
ready to assist you in any way I can. 

Thanking you again for your courtesy in forwarding the little pamphlet, 
I am Very sincerely yours, 

O. D. Bragdon. 

P. S. — On second thought I inclose original letter of Mr. Doerschuk. 
Possibly the handwriting may be of consequence to you. See also copy of 
my letter to Mr. D, B. 

The following is Mr. A. N. Doerschuk's letter to Mr. O. D. Brag- 
don and forwarded to me, and which speaks for itself: 

Kansas City, Mo., Feb 2, '94. 
Dear Sir: — Through the kindness of Mr. T. E. Wilson, librarian to 
the New York World, I have the great pleasure of this informal introduc- 
tion to you. Mr. Wilson kindly addressed this letter for me, and its sub- 
ject can best be stated in a few words. Recently I, with several of my inti- 
mate friends, have been deeply interested in Astrology. To satisfy our 
friends and ourselves of the actual science in the matter, we have decided if 
possible to have three distinct horoscopes cast by one of the foremost men 
in the science. Any actual expense connected with this matter will be 
gladly refunded by us. Hoping that you will kindlv consent to accommo- 
date us, and that we shall have the pleasure of an early reply, I remain 

Very truly yours, 

A. N. Doerschuk. 

The next letter is Mr. Bragdon's letter to Mr. Doerschuk, of Kan- 
sas City, in reply to his first letter : 

Boston, Mass., March 10th, 1894. 
Mr. A. N. Doerschuk, 

Dear Sir: — Your favor of February 2d, addressed to me by Mr. T. E. 
Wilson, has just been received, and its contents considered. 

I appreciate the compliment that Mr. Wilson pays me but fear he has 
overlooked better talent nearer home, and in the belief that I may be better 
furthering your desires to have satisfactory evidence of the genuineness of 
the science, I have taken the liberty of forwarding your letter to Dr. L. D. 
Broughton, of No. 68 South Washington Square, New York City. This 
gentleman has wide experience in the science and his judgment and opin- 
ion will perhaps go as far to convince you of the actual science as could 
those of any man outside of yourselves. I would suggest that perhaps you 
might better convince yourselves of the truth of Astrology by each investi- 
gating his own nativity by the light of the rules of Astrology, which are 
easily obtained by any one from published works on the subject rather than 
to make your belief dependent upon the success or failure of an v other 
human being in judging the details of your private lives. I judge you 
would not find it a very laborious task and think it would be far more satis- 
factory to you in the end. 



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Trusting I have acted for your best Interests, and have best served the 
honesty of your purpose by referring your note to Dr. Broughton, 
I remain, yours respectfully, 

O. D. Bragdon (Regulus). 

The following is the first letter of Mr. A. N. Doerschuk to me, in 
reply to a short note to him stating that I had received his letter directed 
to Mr. O. D. Bragdon, of Boston, and that I wished further informa- 
tion about the horoscopes in question, and whether they were for 
individuals, or to be published in some newspaper or periodical. 1 also 
stated that I had sent him two or three pamphlets, etc. 

Kansas City, Mo., March 13, ''94. 
Dr. L. D. Broughton, 

Dear Sir : — Your favor of the 12th inst. inclosing the pamphlets on 
" Planetarv Influence 11 and " Why I am an Astrologer 11 are at hand, also 
a letter from Mr. O. D. Bragdon, of the Regulus, of Boston, Mass., stating 
that our letter forwarded to him had been forwarded to you, in hope of 
obtaining better satisfaction of our desires. 

We beg to thank you for your kindness as above mentioned and hope that 
we may have the extreme pleasure of your assistance in furthering to our satis- 
faction our knowledge of astrological matters, in which you are so well versed. 

We desire to know what consideration must be offered to induce you to 
cast for us three separate and distinct horoscopes, giving a full description of 
the three persons, their past and present lives and their future possibilities} 
also what would be in your judgment the proper vocation of each indi- 
vidual ; in short, we desire a complete nativity of each person cast by your 
own hands. We are not prompted in this by any morbid curiosity since 
we firmly believe in the science of your profession. 

Our object has been to gain access to the most thoroughly learned 
authority on the subject, since we desire the riper judgment of others on 
matters concerning our own nativity. We sincerely hope that it may be 
within yonr province to be of service to us in this matter. We hope to 
receive an early reply stating what facts will be necessary and convenient in 
forwarding our ends. Hoping that we may have the benefit of your ripe 
knowledge and awaiting an early reply, we remain Truly yours, 

Represerted by A. N. Doerschuk. 

The following is my reply to Mr. Doerschuk : 

New York, March 20, 1894. 
Mr. A. N. Doerschuk, 

Dear Sir: — Yours of the 13th inst. came to hand on Saturday, but I 
have been too busy to answer it until to-day. I also received a letter from 
Mr. Bragdon, of Boston, stating that he had received one from you and 
that he had referred you to me. 

If you had stated in your letter whether you wanted those horoscopes 
for publication or for private individuals, I should have understood better 
what to do. To make a complete horoscope, such as yon desire, I will 
charge S20 each. But possibly you may get sufficient proof of the science 
of Astrology to satisfy yourself for five or ten dollars each. I shall require 
the name of the place where the party was born, so as to get the longitude 
and latitude of the place of birth, and also the exact time of birth, or as near the 
exact time as possible. That is, you must give the year, the month, day of 
month, hour and minute. If they do not know the minute, they had better 
send a short description of themselves, such as color of hair and eyes, 



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weight, height, complexion, etc, and if there are any special marks on their 
person I should like to know them. But if they are satisfied of the exact 
time and place of birth, all the other information is not necessary. 

If you want to convince yourself of the truth of Astrology the best plan 
is to take lessons in that science, the same as if you wanted to convince 
yourself of the truth of arithmetic. 

I have had a great many pupils in my time, so have my brothers, my 
father and grandfather ; and in all these years there has never been a pupil 
of any of our family that has discovered that Astrology was not a true 
science. Enclosed you will find a copy of a horoscope of Mr. David H. 
Reid, of 81 East 125th Street, New York.* 

This gentleman sent his time of birth to the New York Sunday Nevus, 
a paper that I have been writing for off and on for about 30 years, but I 
have contributed about three columns every Sunday for the last year and a 
quarter. You will also find inclosed three columns cut out of that paper of 
February 4th, 1894. In it you will find the horoscope marked and also find 
a copy of his letter. I have had hundreds of similar letters from persons 
who have had their horoscopes published in the Sunday Nevus. 

During last Summer Mr. Ruthiel, one of the editors of the Baltimore 
Nevus sent his time of birth to the New York Sunday Nevus, and in due 
course of time his horoscope was published. Afterwards my son, in writing 
to Mr. Ruthiel, asked him for his time of birth, and noticing that it was 
the same as had been published in the Nevus, my son cut it out and sent it 
to him. Mr. Ruthiel, in writing to my son in reference to his own horo- 
scope, made the following remarks : " The reputation of your father being 
the best in the country, if not in the world, I find is not misplaced. He 
has hit me exactly, the only difference is that I am fair; the time of mar- 
riage is exact (38 years); I do not see how he did it, and also the favorable 
and unfavorable periods mentioned are correct in every particular." 

Possibly Mr. Ruthiel would be a more suitable person than myself to 
satisfy you of the truth of Astrology, as he has been in practice as a writer 
for over twenty years, has published much on the science, especially in the 
Baltimore Daily Nevus, the Pittsburg Dispatch, and the Capitol at Wash- 
ington, and he also has a good knowledge of Astrology. 

Forty years ago I probably stood alone in this country as the champion 
of Astrology. Certainly I was the only one who was publishing anything 
advocating that science. I published Broughtons Monthly Planet Reader 
and Astrological Journal for many years, but since then it is astonishing how 
many people have given attention to that subject, and I think there must be 
scores in the country now that could convince you of the truth of that 
science, who have nearly all been taught by my father, my brothers, or my- 
self. Probably the fairest test to prove the truth or falsity of the science 
would be to let me choose a number of times and places of birth out 
of those that I think I could handle best, and would prefer those 
that a few minutes out of the exact time would not make much differ- 
erence. For instance, the inclosed horoscope will convey the best idea of 
what I mean. It is what we term a plain horoscope and one that can be 
easily read without making any mistakes. Now had I to choose twenty or 
thirty of them, and if the whole came out perfectly correct, the same as an 
example in arithmetic, I think that ought to convince any skeptic who was 
ever likely to be convinced. 

I am writing from six to ten columns each week for the Pittsburg Dis- 
patch, similar to what I am writing for the New York Sunday Nevus, and I 

* I intended publishing Mr. David H Reid's horoscope, but I find I had not space. 



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might as a test pick out eight or ten of those times of birth and let the peo- 
ple whose horoscopes have been published report to the editor whether they 
are correct or not, their answers to be printed in the following Sunday's 
Dispatch. Even that would not be a perfect test, as the persons sending 
their time of birth to the Dispatch might not be absolutely certain of their 
exact moment of birth. As an illustration I will here state that when I 
lectured in 1S66 and 1867 at 814 Broadway, New York, there was a gentle- 
man handed in his time of birth and gave it at three o'clock in the after- 
noon ; after I was through reading off his horoscope he stated that it was 
nearly all wrong. As soon as I saw the man standing up I told him he had 
not given me the correct time of birth, but he was absolutely certain that he 
had. He attended the lecture the following week and handed in his time 
of birth a second time. Remembering the date, I did not cast the map of 
the heavens, but made the remark at the close of the lecture that the gen- 
tleman whose horoscope was read last Tuesday night, had handed in his 
time of birth a second time and it is written three o'clock in the morning 
instead of three in the afternoon. I told the gentleman that he was still in 
error, that he could not have been born at three o'clock in the morning, but 
he might have been born at five o'clock a.m. He stated that he asked his 
parents and they had told him that the last statement was the correct 
time of birth. However he went home and told them what I said and they 
all hunted up the family Bible and it stated that he was born at five a.m., as 
I had informed him. He came to consult me on business and other mat- 
ters a number of times afterwards. I will give one more instance. A gen- 
tleman who was formerly one of the editors of the New York Herald, who 
does not wish his name to be made public, since I published " Planetary 
Influence," has taken quite an interest in Astrology and has commenced 
studying it, and wishing to have the horoscopes of all his friends, he asked 
Mr. H., a private secretary of Mr. C. D., and he gave his time of birth as 
nine o'clock in the morning; after the map of the heavens had been erected 
this friend called on Mr. H. and told him he could not have been born at 
nine a.m. as his personal appearance would not answer to a man born under 
Leo. Mr. H. stated that it was the time his mother had given him. This 
friend then set to work to find out the time of birth from Mr. H.'s per- 
sonal appearance and hit on 10:30 a.m. as answering- his description, he then 
wrote the horoscope and took it to Mr. H. On his entering the office Mr. 
H. stated that he had since seen his father who had told him that he was 
born at 10:30 a.m. When Mr. H. read the horoscope he was somewhat 
surprised. The gentleman who employed Mr. H. had also taken some 
interest in this science and has had Jjis horoscope cast, which has proved 
correct and is likely to be published shortly in some New York newspaper. 

Astrology would have been much further advanced if it had not been 
for the persecution it has met with in all Christian countries. The Astrol- 
ogers have been classed as witches and wizards and have been imprisoned 
and executed just the same as those "imaginary beings 5 as the Bible states, 
"Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live," and the authorities have tried their 
best to fulfill that injunction. 

Probably no science can be made as useful as Astrology if 
it is cultivated similar to Astronomy at the present day. It all 
boys and girls were taught the trades and professions that they are most 
suited for according to their horoscopes, as indicated by the science of 
Astrology, the amount of distress and misery that could be avoided would 
be astonishing. Often the unhappmess that married people suffer might be 
alleviated if not avoided by this science, if their horoscopes were compared 
previous to marriage. 



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It is published in books on marriage and stated by travellers from India 
that nearly one-half the people on the face of the earth at the present 
day are governed by this science in regard to choosing a partner for life. 
In India and China when a child is born they take the horoscope of that 
child and go to various friends and acquaintances to compare it with the 
horoscope of a child of the opposite sex, and keep on comparing until they 
meet with one that harmonizes with the horoscope then in hand. Then the 
friends or relations make arrangements for the marriage to take place when 
the parties become of a suitable age. 

There was a Hindoo who gave a lecture on the manners and customs of 
the Hindoos a short time ago at the Liberal Club in New York City, and 
he made the statement that there was not one marriage in a thousand but 
what were successful and happy by following this method of comparing 
horoscopes of the opposite sex before becoming engaged or getting mar- 
ried. They do not ask the question in those countries, "Is marriage a 
failure ? " 

I have made this letter longer than I had intended, only I thought 
from the tenor of your letter that you wished to become interested in 
the science of Astrology. Yours respectfully, 

L. D. Broughton. 

The above letter was the last of the correspondence I had with Mr. 
A. N. Doerschuk, of No. 1201 Grand Avenue, Kansas City, Mo. He 
never even wrote to let me know that he had received my letter. Why- 
he and his friends dropped the matter, I am unable to say ; I can only 
conjecture. One of the editors of the New York Herald, to whom I read 
this letter, told me that it was a trap which they had deliberately 
planne-d, and that they would send the wrong time of birth of some 
person so as to expose Astrology in the New York World and thus 
boom the circulation of that paper. I am sorry that newspaper 
editors have such a bad opinion of each other, but they know one 
another better than I do. I am aware that there is nothing too 
low, mean or contemptible for the editors of the New York World 
to stoop to in order to increase their circulation. I need only 
refer to the sensation that they made in having John De Leon, an 
Astrologer, living in East 4th Street, New York, sent to Sing Sing fifteen 
years for no other reason than to boom their paper, as the editor, Col. 
John Cockerill, afterwards stated over his own signature, and then after- 
wards getting Prof. Richard A. Proctor to write the article called " The 
Humbug of Astrology,'' in which he called all Astrologers li silly, 
ignorant charlatans, rascals and lying knaves." The ex-editor of the 
New York Herald stated that I had made the best move that I could 
possibly have made in referring Mr. A. N. Doerschuk to one of the 
editors of the Baltimore News. He said it was a very good bluff and 
that it would end the matter, because the New York World would 
never attempt to fight one of the editors of the Baltimore News, who 
had a newspaper to back him. 

I may be mistaken altogether in the above remarks, and it is possi- 
ble that Mr. Doerschuk and his friends may have reconsidered the mat- 
er in regard to getting proofs of the truth of the science of Astrology, 



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and did not care to go through the same kind of persecution that I and 
my family and friends have had to go through in advocating that 
science, and probably they may have thought that it would lower their 
standing in the community if it was found out that they were investi- 
gating the science of Astrology. 

I will here state and try to prove in the latter part of this book that 
Richard A. Proctor deliberately told a falsehood in that article called 
the " Humbug of Astrology." I shall also republish verbatim Mr. 
Proctor's article from the New York World in the latter part of this 
volume, with my comments on the same, which the New York World 
refused to publish. Probably no other man stooped so low as to vilify, 
for a few dollars, persons who were utter strangers to himself as Richard 
A. Proctor did in that article. 

I do not know whether the reader observed in Mr. O. D. Bragdon's 
letter, when speaking of myself, that he never even mentioned that I 
was silly, ignorant, a rascal, charlatan or lying knave. Possibly he does 
not know me as well as the New York World knows me. 

I will here state that there is no learning, science, profession, trade, 
or secret order that forms a fellowship so binding and lasting as the 
knowledge of Astrology. Go where he will, if he meets any persons 
who have a knowledge of that subject he is always welcome and receives 
the greatest attention ; at least that has always been so in my experi- 
ence and with those persons whom I have known. It is only those per- 
sons (and chiefly the religious communities) who have no knowledge of 
Astrology who are the Astrologers' bitterest enemies. One more point 
which the reader should bear in mind, and that is once an Astrologer 
always an Astrologer. I have never known, and I don't believe that 
any other person has ever known a man or woman who having 
studied Astrology has afterwards discarded it ; they may on account 
of the ignorance and prejudice of others around them not let it 
be known that they know anything about that science. In all other 
professions there are some back sliders, and who afterwards become 
skeptics or unbelievers. 

In the foregoing pages I have endeavored to give some very strong 
proofs of the influence of the planets, the Sun and Moon on the earth 
and its inhabitants. The planetary influences can be recognized and 
calculated by their revolutions, their perihelion and aphelion and in 
their aspects or relations to each other. 

Lord Bacon in his Organum, if I remember right, states that when 
any effect always follows any particular cause, and if that cause is 
increased the effect is also increased, and when the cause is decreased 
the effect is also reduced in proportion, and when the cause is entirely 
removed the effect also entirely ceases, then he says: " You may always 
attribute that particular effect as being produced by that particular 
cause." 

I have quoted a sufficient number 01 instances from both profane 
and sacred history, and also an equal number 1 agronomical calculi- 



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tions of the positions of the planets, their various aspects to each other, 
when transiting any particular sign of the Zodiac to warrant a further 
investigation of this subject by any intelligent reader. Also I have 
every reason to believe that similar calculations and observation*; have 
been made by Astrologers in nearly all civilized countries, and those cal- 
culations reach back to a very remote period, if we can believe his- 
tory and inscriptions on ancient buildings and the deductions of learned 
men. 

The Bible contains much Astrology, if properly interpreted, especi- 
ally in what is termed the Old Testament. 

Job, which is one of the oldest books now in existence, in Chapter 
38, verses 31, 33 says : " Canst thou bind the sweet influences of the 
Pleiades or loose the bands of Orion ? Knowest thou the ordinances 
of Heaven ? Canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth." Isaiah, 
4.7th Chap., 13th verse says : " Let now the Astrologers, the star-gazers, 
the monthly prognosticators stand up." And we also read in Daniel, 
5 th Chap. , 1 1 th verse, " That Daniel was made by the decree of Nebuch- 
adnezzar master of all the magicians, Astrologers and Chaldeans in Baby- 
lon." I might go on making extracts from the Bible, Josephus, and 
other ancient books to prove that the science of Astrology ante- 
dates all ancient written history, They certainly prove that Astrology 
is no recent upstart, and that it has been known, studied and practiced 
from time immemorial. 

All sciences are begun by accumulating facts and by observations and 
experiments ; afterwards these facts, observations and experiments are 
compared and arranged in regular order. Hence it is said that 
science is knowledge methodically arranged and classified ; it is 
then much easier to be learned, as the most simple part can be acquired 
first. Afterwards the more complicated parts can be learned, and so on. 
I hope I have succeeded in so arranging the various parts of the science of 
Astrology that any one who has acquired a common school education 
can study Astrology and prove its truth or falsity. 

Before commencing the u Elements of Astrology," the reader 
may desire to know whether we have any facts to prove that the planets 
the Sun and Moon have any influence on the earth and its inhabitants, 
as he may think that if we cannot furnish some proof before commenc- 
ing studying that science, it might be all a w r aste of time attempting to 
learn it ; also it may be advisable to give some proof that in all ages and 
in all countries Astrology has in some way been mixed up in people's 
minds with other things, and other so-called learning, such as dreams, 
witchcraft, etc., that have no connection whatever with it. We have a 
remarkable illustration in the Bible where Pharoahs and kings believed 
that dreams were in some way associated with Astrology, and that 
Astrologers had some supernatural knowledge of interpreting dreams 
and other occult powers. 

I give the following as proof of what I here state, and also proof of 
planetary influence on the earth and its inhabitants. 



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PHARAOH'S DREAM AND THE MAGICIANS OF EGYPT 
AND BABYLON.* 

Genesis xli, 8. — " And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was 
troubled, and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the 
wise men thereof, and Pharaoh told them his dream, but there was none that 
could interpret them unto Pharaoh." 

14, 16. " Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and Pharaoh said unto 
Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and there is none that can interpret 
it, and I have heard say of thee, that thou canst understand a dream and 
interpret it." 

According to the Bible it appears that Pharaoh was very much 
troubled about his dreams, and wished to have an interpretation of them, 
and no doubt he thought the Magicians and Wise Men were the most 
capable of interpreting them. 

We also read in Daniel, chapter 11, that Nebuchadnezzar had a 
dream which troubled him very much, but he did not remember it ; he 
not only wanted the wise men to interpret the dream, but to tell him 
what he had dreamt, as we read in verses 2, 5, and 10 : 

" Then the king commanded to call the Magicians and the Astrolo- 
gers and the Sorcerers and the Chaldeans, for to shew the king his dream ; 
so they came and stood before the king." 

"The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing [dream] 
has gone from me 5 if you will not make known unto me the dream and the 
interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be 
made a dunghill." 

"The Chaldeans answered before the king and said, There is not a man 
upon the earth that can show the king's matter ; therefore there is no king, 
lord, or ruler that asketh such a thing of any Magician, or Astrologer, or 
Chaldean." 

But Daniel made up a fine story, and told the king that he had been 
dreaming about a wonderful image, and gave the interpretation of the 
fictitious dream, which pleased the king. Had either Pharaoh or Neb- 
uchadnezzar known anything about Astrology, they would not have sent 
for the Astrologer to interpret dreams, as that science has nothing to do 
with such matters. Pharaoh might as well have called together his land 
surveyors, or the builders of the pyramids and catacombs of Egypt to 
interpret his dreams as to call the Astrologers for that purpose. 

Both in ancient and modern times people have had strong impres- 
sions or dreams when heavy calamities were hanging over them. The 
dreams of Pharaoh and Nebuchadnezzar are instances of ancient times, 

* In ancient times people believed that the Lord spoke to persons in dreams and told them 
what to do, as we read in Matthew, chapter 2, verse 13, The angel of the lord appeared to 
Joseph, in a dream saying, "Arise and take the younc; child and his mother, and flee into Egypt." 

We also read in Joel, 2d chapter, 28th verse : " Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, 
your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions." 

Some of these dreams seems to have been so plain as to interpret themselves, but other 
dreams required what was called an interpreter, and some persons became very noted on account 
of their special gift in interpreting dreams, and were often in great demand. 



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and I might instance Lizzie Borden and President Lincoln of modern 
times. In the trial of Lizzie Borden it came out that she had told a 
lady friend, on the evening previous to the murder of her father and 
mother, that she was afraid something was going to happen to her father. 
We have another instance in that of President Lincoln, who the night 
before his assassination was troubled with an unpleasant dream. On the 
following morning he was very much depressed, and while at the Cabinet 
meeting he told those present about it, and said that he had similar 
dreams before the battle of Bull Run and other disastrous events of the 
Union army, and he was afraid that some other unfortunate event was 
about to take place that would in some way affect the Government. I 
need not remind the reader that on the same evening President Lincoln 
was assassinated by Wilkes Booth in Ford's Theatre, Washington, and 
the whole Cabinet came near being murdered that night by a band of 
conspirators. 

In ancient times people paid more attention to dreams than they do 
now, and a good interpreter was in great demand. According to Bible 
history Joseph paid great attention to the interpretation of dreams. 
No doubt he had a particular gift for interpreting them, as is shown 
by the interpreting of the Butler's and Baker's dreams while they were 
in prison. In both cases the interpretation was true. 

Joseph's gift as an interpreter is no argument for or against Astrology ; 
yet I have heard scores of sermons on Pharaoh's dream and Joseph's 
successful interpretation, after the Magicians and Wise Men had failed, 
and it was noted as a forcible argument against the science of Astrology. 
The interpreters of dreams, clairvoyants, mind readers, Gypsies, fortune 
tellers, etc., although commonly classed under the name Astrologers, 
have no connection whatever with the science of Astrology. 

Astrology is purely a science of observation and inductive philoso- 
phy, which has been continued for thousands of years, and by people 
who have made it their special business to make these observations, 
even in spite of the opposition and persecution which the votaries of this 
science have had to endure. 

In ancient times all the civilized nations had their wise men and 
Astrologers on hand so as to be ready whenever the kings or Pharaohs 
wished to consult them, and, as Riciiard A. Proctor said, "The cuneiform 
inscriptions of Assyria, the hieroglyphs of Egypt, the most ancient rec- 
ords of Babylon, Persia, India, and China, agree in showing that of old 
all men believed the Sun and Moon, Planets and Stars in their course 
foretell, nay, rule the fortunes of men. " 

In ancient times, and even of late years, everything of a mysterious 
nature was classed under the head of Astrology, and even Astronomy 
came under the same class, as all the calculations in that science were 
made solely for the use of Astrologers, and to enable them to make their 
predictions, before the science of navigation came into general practice. 

Why Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, should have called the 
Astrologers to tell him his dream, is difficult to understand, as the most 
ancient books we have on Astrology in use at the present day, which 
were written more than two thousand years ago by one of the Pharaohs 



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of Egypt, called Claudius Ptolemy, the author of the Ptolemaic system 
of Astronomy, does not mention anything about interpreting dreams 
by Astrology in his Four Books on that science. 

MISREPRESENTATION OF ASTROLOGY. 

The reader can judge how much Astrology has to do with the inter- 
preting of dreams, clairvoyance, fortune-telling, etc., after he has read 
what follows, which I give as a sample of the observations which Astrologers 
have made of late years in that science, and also to prove for themselves 
whether or not Astrology has any foundation in the laws of nature. 

THEORIES OF ANCIENT ASTRONOMERS. 

how planets are supposed to affect the earth and its inhabitants 

Jupiter's perihelion coincident with the return of cholera. 

It is an axiom of modern philosophy that nothing occurs by chance ; 
every event is the effect of the action of some law. Often the occur- 
rence may be clouded so that its primary cause is not apparent, and some 
minds will consider it of the nature of a miracle, but investigation will 
always prove the existence of the motive power. 

The periodic visitation of epidemics of disease is one of the occur- 
rences to which many possible causes have been assigned, but medical men 
are far from giving a satisfactory explanation of their appearance. In some 
years cholera has started from its birthplace in India, and traveled over 
most of the world. In other years it has remained about its home, and 
we have heard little of it. It may be said that the circumstances which 
permit of its being carried to different places in the years of its greatest 
prevalence are the causes of its spreading ; but this is not entirely true. 
The methods of prevention are never relaxed, as the people always 
regard it as a public enemy which has to be kept at a distance. 

The passage of cholera from one place to another seems to be often 
more rapid than the means of communication by ordinary travel. That 
it is dependent upon and aided in its spread by atmospheric conditions 
is recognized ; but that its germination is also dependent upon a vitiation 
of our atmosphere has not been admitted by the medical faculty. 

It was the accepted theory of the old astronomers that the earth was 
influenced by the other planets of our solar system. Since the change 
from the Ptolemaic system of astronomy, which was based upon the 
theory that the earth was the centre and all the other planets revolved 
around it, the modern theories have accepted the sun only as the source 
of all power and life, and the influence of our sister planets upon mun- 
dane life has been denied. 

That the ancient astronomers could have followed their theories 
blindly for so long a time, without some basis in fact, seems hardly prob- 
able, and that the evidences upon which their theories were based were 
not altered by the discovery that the groundwork of their structure was 
wrong, leads a few men to-day to accept some of their teachings as true. 
It was their belief that certain positions of the planets so influenced our 
earth that epidemics, earthquakes, and often changes in our social rela 



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tions, were the result. That it has some basis in truth is evidenced by 
circumstances which may be easily verified. 

In our solar system the planets, including the earth, revolve around 
the sun in regular periods. The orbits, or paths, of the journeying 
spheres do not form a perfect circle, however, and each planet at some 
part of its path is nearer to the sun than in other portions of its orbit. 
The great Kepler proved that these orbits take the form of an ellipsis or 
oval, of which the sun forms the central point of one end. When a 
planet passes that portion of its circle where it is nearest to the sun it is 
technically considered in its perihelion, from the Greek peri, about or 
near, and helios, the sun. In the opposite segment of its circle it is said 
to be in aphelion. 




The periods when the superior planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and 
Neptune are in their perihelia seems to be coincident with the appear- 
ance of epidemics of disease, and particularly with the retutn of Jupiter 
and Saturn to that portion of their orbits does the earth and its inhabit- 
ants seem to suffer. 

Jupiter makes the circuit around the sun in a little less than twelve 
years. Owing to the ovoid form of his orbit, he is near the sun about 
one-quarter of the time, and away from the central orb three-quarters. 

Saturn makes his revolution in about twenty-nine and one-half years, 
and, therefore, is in perihelion several years. Two of these periods of 
Saturn occupy about fifty-nine years, and correspond to live of the periods 
of Jupiter ; and both planets reach their nearest point to the sun together 
every fifty-nine years, and are at that time many millions of miles nearer 
to the great central orb than they are in aphelion. 

The article on cholera in the August number of the New York Med- 
ical Journal for 1871 asserts that cholera had broken out in Hudwar, 
India, every twelfth year since 1783, and notably in 1867. This seems 



62 ELFMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 

to correspond with the perihelion epochs of Jupiter, and a study of a 
few of these epochs may be interesting. 

PERIHELION EPOCH OF JUPITER. 

The years 1892 and 1893 is one of the times when Jupiter is passing 
the central point of his perihelion. That the earth has felt some dis- 
turbing influence is easily proven. The prevalence of cholera, which 
threatened to invade this country, after making itself felt so disastrously 
in Hamburg and different parts of Germany, France, Russia, Spain, and 
Italy, and the great mortality which it produced in those countries, be- 
sides the large number of cases and deaths at New York Quarantine 
in the summer and fall of 1892 ; also the return of typhus fever to New 
York in the spring of that year, and the large number of cases and deaths 
from that disease. It is a remarkable coincidence that we have not had 
a single case of typhus fever either in New York or any part of the 
United States since the last perihelion of Jupiter in 1881, and typhus 
cases are likely to occur until Jupiter gets out of his perihelion. 

Regarding the prospects of cholera visiting the Unite States in the 
year (1893), t ^ ie following is from the New York Sunday News of July 
16th, 1893 : 

" Cholera Prospects. — What is the outlook for cholera ? asks a cor- 
respondent of the Philadelphia Times. Latest advices from United 
States consular and medical officers abroad are gloomy. The disease 
prevails all over France. It is at Nantes, Quimper, Narbonne, Mont- 
pelier, Niemes, Toulouse, and Cette. There are several cases at Mar- 
seilles, from which great port vessels are sailing every day for America. 
In the district of Lorient and Vannes the plague is widespread. Mean- 
while it is raging in Galicia, Austro-Hungary, and in several provinces 
of Southwest Russia. However, it is well-nigh impossible to get any 
definite information as to the progress of the complaint in the Czar's 
dominions, owing to a secretive official policy. Complaining of this, 
our Minister at St. Petersburg asks that a physician under the Marine 
Hospital Service be attached to the legation for the purpose of gather- 
ing medical news. 

" The plague has just broken out at Mecca with alarming virulence. 
The holy city is only two days' journey by caravan from the nearest Red 
Sea port. At the same time the United States Minister at Constanti- 
nople reports that the disease is spreading rapidly westward from Bagdad 
across Mesopotamia toward the Mediterranean. There is much com- 
merce directly between this country and the ports of the Mediterranean 
and Red Sea. When it is considered that such news is far from reassuring, 
it is some comfort to know that there is no cholera in Germany. At 
Hamburg, which no longer gets its water supply from the infected River 
Elbe, only one case has appeared since March 1." 

Great credit is due both to the authorities at Washington and the 
Board of Health of New York in preventing cholera from getting a foot- 
hold in this city in the fall of 1892 ; and if Jupiter were only further 
along in his perihelion, we might venture to hope that the same vigilance 
will prevent its access here in the summer and fall of 1893. 



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As one of the effects of the present perihelion of Jupiter, I might 
mention the visits of La Grippe, which has traveled twice around the 
world in the last few years, and carried off hundreds of thousands of its 
victims, and left its lasting effects on millions of others which it attacked, 
but which survived after a lingering illness. 

The large number of earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, cloudbursts, 
and floods, in all parts of the world, seems to give rise to a belief in the 
existence of some super-mundane cause. As Jupiter will be in his peri- 
helion for nearly two years yet, it is probable, judging from past events, 
that we shall suffer more or less during that time. 

Twelve years ago was the period of Jupiter's last passage around the 
sun, and for a couple of years previous, as well as in the years immedi- 
ately following, there were diseases in epidemic form. In the years 
1878, 1879, 1880, and 1881, yellow fever was epidemic part of 
the time in New Orleans, Memphis, and.Vicksburg; the black pest in 
Russia and Turkey, where diphtheria was also prevalent ; a severe 
epidemic of cholera existed in India, which spread to Egypt and invaded 
France, being epidemic in Marseilles and Toulon, carrying off thousands 
of the inhabitants of the two cities, and crossing into Italy. There were 
many cloudbursts, cyclones and earthquakes in those years. Typhus fever 
was prevalent in 1881 in New York, and there had not been any cases 
of that disease here for a number of years previous. 

In 1868 Jupiter was in perihelion, and as early as 1866 cases of cholera 
occurred in the United States, and the disease was prevalent from that 
time till 1873. Perhaps the most serious time was in the year 1866. 
In -1867 it was very violent in India. 

The next previous perihelion of Jupiter was in 1856. Saturn also 
reached his nearest point to the sun in that year, and diseases were 
prevalent for several years before and after that time. Cholera broke 
out in this country in 1851, and lasted several years. Yellow fever was 
more virulent than usual in the South ; in New Orleans in 1853, and 
again in 1856, and in Norfolk in 1855. During the French, English, 
and Russian war in 1854 and 1855, cholera and low fevers carried cff 
thousands of soldiers in the Crimea. The number of deaths was so 
great as to attract the attention of the whole civilized world. 

Jupiter made his next previous perihelion in 1845. In that year 
cholera commenced in India and traveled to every part of Europe, and 
notably severe in Russia. In England it was particularly virulent. In 
that part of England where I then resided there was scarcely a house 
in which cholera did not exist, and in some families every member died. 
The mortality was so great in some neighborhoods that one person out 
of every seventeen died of the disease; and the atmosphere there was so 
vitiated that perishable food became putrid in much less than the usual 
time. A piece of meat elevated on the tail of a kite became putrid in 
little over an hour. I remember in the summer and fall of 1848 
when walking out evenings, that the atmosphere was so heavy and op- 
pressive that at times it was very difficult to breathe, and it had a 
very oppressive effect on me. The cholera reached this co*untry in 
1848, and was epidemic in New York and Philadelphia. Mars was in 



64 ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 

his perigee in 1 847, and probably assisted in the vitiation of the atmos- 
phere. 

In 1833 Jupiter was once more near the sun. That year and the 
year previous are known in the history of the country as the cholera 
years. The disease commenced in India in 1829, and in 1830 spread 
over Europe with great virulence and rapidity. The disease made such 
great inroads into our population that it will probably be remembered 
for generations to come. Most of our oldest citizens refer back to that 
time as the cholera year. Mars was in perigee in 1832, and probably 
lent his influence to the destruction of life. Saturn was in perihelion in 
1826, and his deteriorating power was probably the starting of the epidemic 
so early in Europe. 

In 1797 Jupiter and Saturn reached their nearest point to the sun 
about the same time, and Uranus made the visit in 1798. Noah Web- 
ster, the compiler of the dictionary which bears his name, collected the 
data of epidemics in past centuries, in two volumes, and published them 
in 1799, un der the head of "A History of Pestilential Diseases." His 
account of the events of these years is startling. 

Yellow fever was prevalent in every seaport of the United States as 
far north as Portland, Me. In Philadelphia it was very severe, and the 
accounts written by Dr. Rush of his experience then may be read with 
interest by those who desire to investigate. Winters were very severe 
at that period, and the Delaware river was frozen over for months at 
a time ; and for this reason, as well as the unhealthy summers and the 
yellow fever in that city continuing until the frost set in, Philadelphia 
received its great fall and New York its rise. From that time the Penn- 
sylvania metropolis lost its prestige as a seaport, and New York was the 
gainer. 

Many theories have been advanced to account for the influence of 
planets in their perihelia. That immense bodies like Jupiter and Saturn 
are likely to affect the other planets of our solar system by their approach 
to the central power, is reasonable. The means by which this influence 
is transmitted to the earth is, of course, a matter for speculation. 

A very ingenius theory is, that the presence of these great orbs near 
the sun interferes with the operation of the law of gravitation upon the 
earth, the lessening of the sun's influence permitting the exudation of 
vapors, and reducing the vitality of the earth's inhabitants. That there 
are many eruptions cf volcanoes and earthquakes, cloudbursts and cy- 
clones at such times would seem to give force to the idea that some of 
the sustaining power is taken from the earth's crust. 

Noah Webster finally arrived at the theory that comets were the 
cause of the atmospheric disturbance which produced epidemics and pes- 
tilential diseases, and instances the cosmic visitor of 1797. 

Mr. Webster afterwards gave up that theory, and adopted another 
one, which was, that volcanoes and earthquakes were the causes of epi- 
demics, by permitting large quantities of noxious gases and impure or 
poisonous air to escape from the bowels of the earth during their opera- 
tion, and instances the effect of "the great volcanic eruption in Iceland in 
1783, by which the atmosphere was rendered pestilential by discharges 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 65 

of fire md lava from the earth, so much so that the rain which fell was 
acid and corrosive, destroying cattle and men, covering the bodies of 
cattle with pustules and sores, and excoriating the hands and faces of 
men when it fell on them. It also killed vegetables. The effects were 
felt not only in Iceland, but in Norway and other parts of Europe." 

Mr. Webster appears sometimes to get confused while writing his two 
volumes of " Epidemics and Pestilential Diseases," and is at a loss how 
to account for the causes of these diseases. Yet, as he says, it can be 
proven by history that one-fourth of the deaths have been caused by 
epidemics, and there must be some cause which produces them. His 
motive in writing the history of those epidemics was to try and find out 
what was their cause. His theory of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions 
being the cause, does not appear to meet the case. As he gives instances 
where people were driven out of cities by epidemics, and afterwards 
driven back by earthquakes that occurred in the country. Therefore, 
according to his theory, the effect came before the cause. 

Is it not possible that when a number of superior planets are in their 
perihelion at the same time, and those planets, which are a thousand 
times larger than the earth, and they at that time being millions of 
miles nearer the sun than when at their aphelion, that those planets 
when near the sun may so act on it, and that orb may react on our 
atmosphere, so as to produce earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and other 
disturbances of the atmosphre, such as cloudbursts, tornadoes, etc., which 
in their turn may cause pestilential diseases, and epidemics naturally to fol- 
low, or at least be more prevalent at those periods than at other times ? 
Sometimes very heavy floods spread over a large tract of low lands, 
carrying mud and vegetation with it ; the sun, acting on it, decomposing 
the vegetation and producing fermentation, will often produce chills and 
fever, bilious and, at times, typhoid fever. These fevers may so debili- 
tate the constitution of the inhabitants as to make them liable to contract 
other diseases, the germs of which may exist in the atmosphere. 

An extensive overflowing of the Nile in Egypt has been known to 
produce typhus fever and the plague, which has extended into other 
countries. 

Even famine has been known to produce epidemics, an instance of 
which is in Genesis xli, 54, when the Nile did not overflow for seven 
years. . 

ACTION AND REACTION OF ONE PLANET ON ANOTHER. 

That one planet has an effect on another I think cannot be questioned. 
We have a remarkable instance in the discovery of the planet Neptune 
by Mr. Leverrier in 1846. For a long time astronomers noticed that 
the planet Uranus did not always proceed at its uniform motion in its 
orbit, and they came to the conclusion that there must be an undiscovered 
planet whose orbit was outside that of Uranus. Mr. Leverrier, by his 
calculations, not only predicted in what part of the heavens Neptune 
must be at that time, but said that the planet must be equal to a star of 
the tenth magnitude to produce the disturbing effect in the motion of 
Uranus that had been noticed by himself and other astronomers. 

If two planets, Neptune and Uranus, which are a thousand. million 



66 ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 

miles a\hRT, have a perceptible effect on each other, that can be 
noticed by our astronomers with their telescopes, why may not some of 
the nearer planets to the earth, as Venus, Mars, and Jupiter, have a 
marked influence on the earth and its inhabitants which may be noticed 
without a telescope? 

The effect of the sun and moon on our tides is a convincing proof 
that one planet has an influence on another, to say nothing about the 
seasons of the year produced by the sun's rays striking the earth at differ- 
ents angles, which cause summer and winter.* 

THE EFFECT ON THE EARTH AND ITS INHABITANTS 
OF THE NEAR APPROACH OF MARS. 

Let us examine the effect of one of the nearest planets to our earth — 
Mars, termed a superior planet, as its orbit is outside that of the earth, 
and ascertain whether it has had any effect upon the earth's atmosphere 
and its inhabitants. 

Mars, when it makes one of its periodical visits near the earth, called 
its perigee, and when the earth is between the sun and Mars, the full 
disc of the God of War is presented to us as the moon is when at its 
full. Then Mars appears to us much larger than at other times. 

Very little knowledge of astronomy is necessary to understand the 
relation of this planet to our earth, and the reasons for the changes in its 
apparent size when viewed from mother earth. The rapidity of motion 
of the planets around the sun is in proportion to their distance from the 
sun. Although there is believed to be a small planet closer to the sun, 
the nearest that we recognize as of sufficient importance to name is the 
God of Messengers, Mercury, which makes a revolution around the celes- 
tial centre in about eighty-eight days. 

Next to Mercury is Venus, whose revolution is two hundred and 
twenty-four and two-thirds days. The planet in which we all have a 
vital interest, is next to Venus. The earth makes the journey around 
the sun in three hundred and sixty-five days, five hours, forty-eight 
minutes and forty-eight seconds, or one revolution in one year. Mars 
lies outside of trie earth's circle, and completes its circuit around the 
sun in one year, ten and one-half months. Jupiter is next in the 
group, and occupies nearly twelve years in the circuit. Saturn takes 
twenty-nine and a half years, Uranus, or Herschel, as the older astrono- 

* It has been observed by astronomers that when Jupiter is in his perihelion, that a Great 
number of spots appear upon the sun ; they are sometimes formed in a few hours, and are 
thousands of miles in diameter, and are even so large that our earth could be dropped into one of 
them without touching either side, also, cloudbursts, tornadoes, etc., are more frequent on the 
eartli during the time the sun spots are most numerous and larger than usual. The spots disap- 
pear when Jupiter is in his aphelion. This proves almost beyond question that the planets react 
on each other. Also, it has been noticed that the Aurora Boreahs, or Northern Lights, are 
brighter and more numerous when Jupiter is in his perihelion, and when there are spots on the 
sun. We have had no Northern Lights to speak of since Jupiter was last in his perihelion in 1881, 
until within the last two years. 

Is it not reasonable that when the sun's envelopment is so disturbed by electricity and magnet- 
ism that the electricity coming from the sun to our earth and other planets should so disturb the 
earth's electricity as to cause cloudbursts, cyclones, tornadoes, and other atmospheric disturbances 
and at times even so disarrange the gases of our atmosphere sufficient to produce epidemics aftid 
othtr diseases? B3T* See note, page 62. 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 67 

mers called him, eighty-four years and twenty-seven days, and Neptune, 
the most distant yet discovered, consumes one hundred and sixty-five 
years in his passage from any given point in his orbit around the sun and 
back to the same place. 




DIAGRAM OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM. 

The above diagram is a representation of the Solar System, with the sun in the center, and the 
planets revolving around it. The large dot on the outer circle, in the upper left hand, represents 
Neptune, which is calculated to be 2,850 million miles away from the sun. The dot on the next 
inner circle, opposite Neptune, is Uranus, which is 1,828 million miles from the sun. On the next 
inner circle, on the right upper side, or the dot with the ring around it, is the planet Saturn, which 
is 909 million miles from the sun. The large dot on the next inner circle, below Saturn, is Jupiter, 
which is 495 million miles from the sun. On the next inner circle, on the lower portion, is Mars, 
at the distance of 145 million miles from the sun. The next dot, just on the line toward the sun 
from Jupiter, is the planet we are all interested in, the Earth, and it revolves around the sun at 
the distance of 95 million miles. On the next inner circle, on the upper right hand side, iz the 
planet Venus, which revolves around the sun at the distance of 68 million miles. The little dot on 
the smallest circle, and opposite the planet Venus, is Mercury, which is 37 million miles from the 
sun. The ovals, with the dots and the long tails to them, are comets coming toward and receding 
from the sun. They always come toward the sun with the head or nucleus foremost, but when 
they get near that orb they commence to turn around, with their tails away from the sun, and back 
away tail foremost, with the head or nucleus still toward the sun. The comet on the lower portion 
is represented as approaching the sun, and the one on the upper part represents a comet receding 
or going away from the sun. The very small dots around the larger ones represent the moons of 
the planets, 

MARS IN OPPOSITION TO THE SUN. 

The approach of Mars to our earth was always viewed by the old 
astronomers as a period to be dreaded. They believed that wars, fam- 
ines, volcanic eruptions, and earthquakes would be the result, and certainly 
there were many curious coincidences to give coloring to their fears. That 
this position of Mars does affect our atmosphere cannot be disputed ; 
whether by an interference with the supply of vital fluid from the sun, 
the robbing of us by the attractive power of the visitor of our mag- 
netism from the sun, or simply by disturbing the equilibrium of our 



68 ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 

gases and changing the relations of the elements which form our atmos- 
phere, is not known. That some disturbance occurs is a fact. 

In the case of Mars, it is an easy matter to refer to the period 
when he approaches nearest to our earth, and, though he does so once 
in every revolution, yet the greatest occurrences are at the time when 
our earth lies between the sun and Mars, and Mars is in his perigee 
at the same time, which is once in about fifteen years. Mars is then 
said to be in perigee, and at the same time in opposition to the sun, 
as the old astronomers termed it, the earth in those days being con- 
sidered the centre of our planetary system. 

The planet Mars was, in August, 1892, in this unfavorable position, 
and whether his presence was the cause of the labor strikes in Penn- 
sylvania, Western New York, and Tennessee or not, it is strange that 
the two should occur together. Mars passes on, and as it began to 
pass its perigee the labor troubles at Carnegie's and other parts of the 
United States were gradually adjusted, and the excitement subsided. 
And we may thank the God of War for his departure and the peaceful 
settlement of the labor troubles. 

The last time that Mars paid the earth a similar visit was in 1877. 
It does not require a very good memory to recall the stirring incidents 
of that memorable year in the history of labor troubles. Pennsylvania 
has been much stirred by the Homestead troubles, but the Carnegie 
strike was nothing compared to the Pittsburg riots of that year. Busi- 
ness was stagnated, and the whole country was aroused by the scenes 
which transpired in 1877. And had it not been for Wm. H. Vanderbilt 
offering a premium to the employees of the New York Central and 
Hudson River Railroad, it is more than likely that there would have 
been a general strike of railroad employees throughout the United 
States. As it was, there was a large number of the militia called out to 
put down riots in different States. The moons of Mars were discovered 
at that time. 

THE PERIOD OF THE WAR. 

From 1877 it requires but slight thought to carry every citizen back 
anothor fifteen years. War and strife darkened our country in 1861— '65, 
and from the perils of that period we are only now recovering. That 
visit of Mars was intensified by another influence, which we will refer to 
further on. 

In 1847-8 the next previous approach of Mars to the earth brought 
war with Mexico and this country, also exciting political times in Europe, 
where every government felt some disturbing element. Louis Phillippe 
met his downfall in France, the Pope was forced to seek safety in flight 
from Rome, all were a strange series of coincidences. 

Fifteen years previous to that time carries us back to 1832. Few 
persons are alive to-day to tell of the scenes of the cholera epidemic. 
It was the greatest infliction this country ever suffered from the dread 
disease, and business was nearly at a standstill. 

In 1832 England was on the verge of a revolution, and only the 
passage of the Reform bill prevented serious disturbances and cruel war. 



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CRITICAL TIMES. 

It may be asserted that wars, riots, disease and other troubles have come 
when Mars was far from the earth, and it is not to be denied. But Mars 
is not the only planet whose visits have seemed to be coincident with 
mundane disturbances. All life insurance companies agree in the state- 
ment that the twenty-ninth year is the most critical period in the lives 
of individuals. More deaths occur at this age, or immediately preceding 
or following it, than at any other time, except in early infancy.^ This 
period corresponds exactly to the revolution of Saturn, whose journey 
around the sun is completed in twenty-nine and a-half years. The older 
astronomers paid more attention to that evil planet than our present 
students of astral science. 

The most remarkable coincidences, though, are to be found by a 
study of the revolutions of the distant orb Uranus. Most stirring scenes 
have followed his return to certain positions in the Zodiac, and though 
it cannot be explained why, or by what means these phenomena are 
brought about, yet they are easily seen to be quite nearly allied in time. 

According to the writings of ancient astronomers, such as Claudius 
Ptolemy and other ancient Astrologers, each country was said to be 
ruled by a particular sign of the Zodiac ; for instance, Aries was said to 
rule England, Taurus Ireland, and the celestial sign Gemini has been 
considered by students of astral science to be the constellation which rules 
the United States. The incidents which have led to the adoption of 
this theory are worthy of study; particularly those phenomena which 
have seemed to follow the advent of Uranus and other planets into this 
constellation. Uranus is at present in the sign of Scorpio. He remains 
in a sign seven years, traveling through the twelve signs of the Zodiac 
in his circuit around the sun in eighty-four years. Uranus entered the 
constellation of Gemini the last time in 1859, and occupied seven years, 
or until 1865, in transiting through it. 

A STIRRING PERIOD. 

This period, commencing with the Harper's Ferry incident, and 
followed by the firing on Fort Sumter, the bloody battles of an awful 
rebellion was one of the most trying times the Federation of our Union 
has ever passed through. 

In the January number of " The Monthly Planet Reader and Astro- 
logical Journal"* of 1861, published in Philadelphia at that time by the 
author, referring to the then anticipated Civil War, I said : — " Uranus 
does not pass out of Gemini until 1865, and I do not look for any peace 
for this country until that time." This period was also made critical 
by the perigee of Mars. I remember distinctly in reading the newspapers 
at the time the account of the capture of the arsenal at Harper's Ferry, 
Va., the arrest, trial and hanging of John Brown ; the bombardment and 
surrender to the rebels of Fort Sumter ; the secession of the Southern 

* The back numbers of the above named Journal, bound in one volume, containing a number 
of predictions relating to the Civil War, also horoscopes of the leading Generals in the United 
States at the time, mailed to any address for $1.00. _ 



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States ; the battles of Bull Run and Ball's Bluff; the surrender of New 
Orleans and Vicksburg and a number of Southern forts to the Union 
army; the battles of Chancellorsville and Petersburg; the battles in the 
Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and Cold Harbor ; also the battles of Shiloh, 
Lookout Mountain, and of Gettysburg, Sherman's march to the sea, and 
the surrender of General Lee to General Grant, at Appomattox Court 
House, on April 9th, 1865, just as the planet Uranus was approach- 
ing the end of the sign Gemini. Uranus entered the sign Cancer on the 
25th of June, when the war came to an end.* 

Let us go back to the next previous transit of the planet Uranus 
through Gemini, which carries us back eighty-four years, and we arrive 
at another exciting period when Uranus and war were coincident visitors. 
It is just eighty-four years from 1859 to 1775, and from that year till 
1782 our country passed through fire and devastation, or, as Thomas 
Paine said, "these were the times that tried men's souls." 

There is not a schoolboy who has not read about the " War of 
the Revolution," and knows all about the throwing of the tea into 
Boston harbor, the battles of Bunker Hill and Lexington, the retreat of 
Washington through New Jersey and his recrossing the Delaware, the 
trying winter months at Valley Forge, the battles of Bennington and 
Schuylerville, the treachery of Benedict Arnold, and the surrender of 
Lord Cornwallis to General Washington. 

Uranus entered the sign of Gemini in the spring of 1775, and left 
that sign in the spring of 1782. Hale's " History of the United States " 
says: "Early in the spring of 1782 pacific overtures were made to the 
American Government, and both nations desisted from hostile measures." 

IMPORTANT ERA IN HISTORY. 

Eighty-four years previous to the time of the American Revolution 
was not so serious a period for the country, but from 1691 to 1698 was 
sufficiently marked to be considered an important era in history. The 
Salem witchcraft horrors were during that period, and the semi-insanity 

* Some of my critical readers may be disposed to say that as the war came to an end before (be 
planet Uranus left the sign Gemini, therefore that planet had nothing to do with the war of the Re- 
bellion. At the time of Gen. Lee's surrender to Gen. Grant, April 9, 1865, Uranus had less than 
four degrees to travel to get out of the ruling sign of this country. Even then the excitement of 
the Rebellion was not quite over, as President Lincoln was shot after that time. And when the 
last of the Rebels surrendered on May 26th, Uranus was over twenty-eight degrees and eleven 
minutes in Gemini. All Astrologers agree in their writings that when a planet is over twentv- 
eight degrees in a sign, it then takes on the influence of the sign following. Therefore Uramis's 
influence over the United States was ended at the time when the war came to an end. 

When I predicted in the "Monthly Planet Reader" of January, 1861, "that until Uranus 
gets out of the sign Gemini," which would not be "until June, 1865, we do not look for anv 
peace for this country," the people of Philadelphia had many a good laugh at my expense, as 
nearly everybody came to the conclusion that the excitement would soon blow over ; and even 
Abraham Lincoln was of the same opinion, as he said in his speeches "that there was nobody 
hurt." In the April number of 1861 I said: " T look for warlike preparations during the middle 
of April, or some decided blow being struck either by the General Government or the seceding 
States." I need not remind the reader that the Rebels commenced firing on Fort Sumter on 
April 13th. Also, in the April number of 1S65 I made the following prediction: " Some noted 
General or a person in high office dies or is removed about the 17th or 18th. President Lincoln 
died on April 15th, after being shot by Wilkes Booth on the 14th. I mention these as remarkable 
coincidences made by the calculation of the motions of the planets and their influence on mundane 
affairs. 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. /I 

which seemed to till the minds of learned judges was enough in itself to 
indicate that the same disturbing influence was operating. Uranus entered 
Gemini in the spring of 169], and the first accusation of bewitching 
occurred in Salem in February, 1692, and the first trial for witchcraft in 
June of that year. Hale's History says "the war with the French and 
Indians, which began in 1690, was not yet terminated. For seven years 
were the frontier settlements harassed by savages, and the English em- 
ployed in expeditions against them. A history of these would consist 
only of repeated accounts of Indian cunning and barbarity, and of 
English enterprise and fortitude. Peace between England and France, 
which took place in 1697, was soon followed by peace with the 
savages." 

The next previous period of Uranus's visit to Gemini was during the 
seven years commencing in 1607. Captain John Smith with Captain 
Christopher Newport reached Chesapeake Bay, ascended the James 
River, and founded the village of Jamestown, the first permanent settle- 
ment in the country, in April, 1607, the time that Uranus entered the 
sign of Gemini. The unsettled conditions which followed are very easily 
remembered by students, and the troubles of the early settlers did not 
cease until 1614, when the immigrants made up their minds to embark 
from Jamestown, and distribute themselves among the fishermen on the 
banks of Newfoundland. With this intention they embarked, but just 
as they drew near the mouth of the James River Lord Delaware appeared 
with immigrants and supplies. Sir Thomas Dale, who ruled with vigor 
and wisdom, made several valuable changes in the laws of the colony. 

Uranus left the sign Gemini in 1614. Hale, in his "History of the 
United States," when describing the condition of the people at James- 
town from 1607 to 1614, says : " The latter part of this period of suffer- 
ing and gloom was long remembered with horror, and was distinguished 
by the name of ' the starving time.'* In six months at one time want, 
sickness, anarchy, and vice had reduced the number of the colony from 
490 to 60." 

I have given th °storical effect of one planet in the ruling sign of 
the United States, extending from 1607 to 1865. The events that took 
place in each of the seven years, or during the time that Uranus remained 
in the sign Gemini, may be said to be the epochs in the history of 
this country. In short, if the events that occurred in the seven years 
that Uranus remained in Gemini, in the four revolutions, were to be left 
out of the history of the United States, we should have a history of the 
country which would be similar in every respect to the play of Hamlet 
with Hamlet left out. 

In the foregoing pages I have pointed out the influences or the effects 
of the planets on mundane affairs, when acting separately, and proved 
from history the events which have occurred near the same time. To 
say the least, it must strike the reader as something very remarkable, and 
it is somewhat strange that the attention of the learned professions, 
especially astronomers, has not previously been drawn to those remark- 
. able coincidences. 

But these gentlemen have been so engaged in- ridiculing everything 



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that had any resemblance to investigating the laws of nature, that they 
have not been able to look any further than the end of their noses. 

Mr. B. G. Jenkins, of London, England, said in a paper read by him 
before the Dulwich College Geological Club, in the summer of 1888, on 

METEOROLOGY AND PLANETARY INFLUENCE: 

"From the lofty heights of modern science we have been accustomed 
to look down with pity and contempt upon the Astrologer of the Mid- 
dle Ages — the weak dabblers in science, who were foolish enough to 
believe that the stars had an influence upon man. An allusion to 
Astrology was always good to raise a laugh at a science meeting, and 
the Astrologers and Alchemists were classed together as either dreamers 
or charlatans. Of late years, however, a reaction has set in. The 
Astrologer is becoming habilitated very rapidly. The influence of the 
planets upon the earth is now admitted to be very distinct, and fresh 
proofs of their disturbing influences are constantly cropping out." 

If the planets Mars, Jupiter, and Uranus, the first in its perigee and 
in opposition to the sun, the second in perihelion, and the third while 
transiting through Gemini, the ruling sign of the United States, have 
produced such marvelous effects, both in this country and in other parts 
of the world, and their influences have been so conspicuous as to 
become almost landmarks in the history of those nations, is it not 
possible, reasoning from analogy, that the effect may be even more 
marked on the earth and its inhabitants when there are two or more 
planets operating at the same time? This can only be proved or dis- 
proved by making astronomical calculations and referring to pages of 
history for facts. 

Jupiter's perihelion occurs every eleven years and ten months ; Mars, 
when in opposition to the sun and in his perigee at the same time, occurs 
about every fifteen years. Sometimes these phenomena coincide or 
occur near the same time ; at other times they occur a number of years 
apart. 

We will only notice those periods when the perigee and perihelion 
of these planets occur near the same time, and refer to pages of history 
for corroboration of their influence. But before doing so let us refer 
to another remarkable coincidence. Is it not singular that the first 
time cholera broke out in its native home, Hudwar, India, and spread 
to other countries in 1783 ; also the time when the great volcanic 
eruption in Iceland, which caused such sad havoc to animal and vegeta- 
ble life, should both occur in the same year ? Noah Webster, in his 
first volume, was of the opinion that comets were the cause of epidemics, 
as he had noticed in history that either during or just previous to epi- 
demics, comets made their appearance, and that but few if any exceptions 
to this rule had ever occurred; but in his second volume, his attention 
having been called to the destructive effects to animal life of the great 
volcanic eruption in Iceland, and of volcanoes in other places, he came 
to the conclusion that volcanic eruptions and earthquakes were the causes 
of epidemics and pestilential diseases. 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 73 

The first perihelion of Jupiter which I shall call attention to occurred 
in 1785, or within two years of the great volcanic eruption in Iceland, 
and the first perigee of Mars, which occurred near that time, was in 1787, 
two years afterwards. In 1789 the French revolution broke out, which 
lasted many years, and which deluged the greater part of France in 
blood, and plunged the whole civilized world into war, and over one 
million soldiers were slain. 

In 1832 Mars was again in perigee, and Jupiter in perihelion in 1833. 
This planetary influence was intensified by the perihelion of Saturn in 
1826. Then occurred the greatest epidemic of cholera ever known; 
also there was a great commotion in England, which lasted several years, 
and came close to a civil war, as the people demanded and got the 
extention of the franchise. In 1845 was another perihelion of Jupiter, 
and in 1847 Mars was in his perigee, when cholera again spread over 
nearly the whole world. The United States was at war with Mexico, 
and all Europe was in political convulsions, which continued for several 
years. In August, 1892, Mars was again in his perigee, and in October 
Jupiter was in perihelion. I need only to refer to the epidemic of La 
Grippe. It has been estimated that over three hundred thousand persons 
died of that disease in the United States in its two visits of i889-'90. 
It is reported that other countries in Europe and Asia suffered more in 
proportion to their population than the United States did. In short, 
there is not a part of the earth where La Grippe did not visit in its two 
voyages around the world. To say nothing about the epidemic of 
cholera in Europe and Asia in the summer and fall of 1892 and during 
the present summer (1893); also yellow fever is prevalent this summer. 
In Brazil it was reported that three hundred a day were dying of the 
fever. Small pox in Norway is so epidemic that the Emperor of Ger- 
many did not touch at any of the ports on his voyage in the North Sea 
in July, 1893. 

There is no doubt but that these evil influences will produce -the 
most dire effects in France and Germany, and that both those countries 
will be deluged in blood. I shall dwell more on this subject in the latter 
part of this volume, in which I shall publish the horoscope of William 
II. of Germany and the horoscope of the time when the third Republic 
of France was formed. 

The effect of the perihelion of Jupiter and the perigee of Mars occur- 
ring within two months of each other in 1892, will certainly be more dis- 
astrous than that which occurred before the French Revolution, and will 
be more lasting, but not quite so disastrous in causing epidemics, on account 
of three superior planets, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, each getting out 
of his perihelion and going into aphelion. But there is no doubt but 
that before Jupiter gets out of his perihelion, which will not be before the 
end of 1894, we shall have enough cholera and other epidemics, both on 
this continent and in Europe and Asia, to satisfy any reasonable person. 

If the planet Uranus had entered the sign Gemini seven years later, 
or in 1783 instead of 1775, or if the perigee of Mars or the perihelion 
of Jupiter had occurred seven years earlier, the war of the Revolution 
would have been more destructive of human life than it was. Even as 



74 ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 

it was, the United States felt the disastrous effect of Jupiter and Saturn 
in their perihelion in 1797 and of Uranus in 1798, when yellow fever 
was epidemic from New Orlaans to Portland, Maine,during 1793, 1794 
and 1795. 

If there had been a perihelion of Jupiter near the time of the break- 
ing out of the war of the Rebellion, that war would have been more 
destructive to human life; but one of the perihelions of Jupiter occurred 
several years before the war broke out, the other several years after it 
was ended. Even as it was, the Union soldiers suffered greatly with 
fever while camping out in the Southern States, which J attribute to the 
perigee of Mars in 1862. 

Had the perigee of Mars occurred in i860 or 1861, when the planet 
Uranus was in the early degrees of Gemini, the war would have been 
more bitter and fierce than it was. Neither the North or the South 
appeared to get up sufficient steam or to be in real earnest about the war 
until Mars entered his perigee in the spring of 1862. After that the 
North and South were in earnest until the war ended. 

What made the Crimean war so destructive to the health and lives 
of the English and French soldiers in 1854 and 1855 was the perihelion 
of Jupiter in 1856, and what made the Franco-Prussian war so destruc- 
tive to the health and lives of the German and French soldiers, caused 
by an epidemic of small pox, in spite of vaccination and revaccination, 
was the perihelion of Jupiter in 1868-69. 

THE PLANET NEPTUNE IN GEMINI. 

In the foregoing pages attention has been called to the effect on this 
country of the planet Uranus in the sign of Gemini. I might have 
given a number of other times when planets were transiting through rhe 
sign Gemini, and noted their influence on this country ; but in doing so 
I was afraid the subject would become too cdmplicated for the general 
reader to follow. Perhaps it will not be uninteresting to notice the effect 
on this and other countries of another planet in Gemini, viz., Neptune, 

Neptune has only transited through Gemini once since Captain 
Christopher Newport and his followers entered the James River and 
founded the village of Jamestown. It takes Neptune one hundred and 
sixty-five years to go once around the sun, or to make one revolution, 
and fourteen years to go through one sign. 

Neptune entered Gemini in 1720 and left it in 1734. In 1720 
England was at war with Spain, and the American colonies suffered much 
on that account, especially in the Carolinas. The Spaniards in Florida 
incited the Indians against the inhabitants of the South, and harassed 
them for a number of years, until the Indians were conquered and they 
emigrated to New York, where they joined the Five Nations in 1722. 

South Carolina was in open rebellion, and refused to recognize the 
royal governor, and in 1720 they elected James Moore governor, who 
was afterwards recognized by England. 

In 1729 the King of England purchased for twenty-two thousand and 
five hundred pounds, seven of the eight proprietors. Carolina was after- 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 75 

wards divided and railed North and South Carolina, each receiving a 
royal governor. 

In 1727 the Count De Los Terres laid siege to Gibraltar, but all his 
efforts to plant the Spanish flag on that Rock were unavailing. Spain 
also fitted out a large fleet to invade England, but failed, partly on 
account of the storms at sea, which disabled and separated the war ships, 
two being captured in the Orkney Islands, Scotland. 

In England the South Sea Company had been formed with the object 
of trading on the Pacific coast of South America. Afterwards this com- 
pany bid against the Bank of England, and succeeded in buying up the 
British annuities, and National debt, they to collect certain taxes. These 
annuities could be changed into South Sea shares at the option of the 
holder. Within six days thousands of the annuitants had exchanged 
their certain income for the boundless imaginary riches of South America. 
The company circulated the report that the English and Spanish nations 
were going to trade Gibraltar for Peru, where there was reported to be 
so many gold and silver mines. The stock rose rapidly from one hun- 
dred pounds per share to one thousand pounds, when Robert Walpole 
and others sold out, clearing one thousand per cent. In August, 1720, 
the delusion was at its height, but when the crisis came thousands of 
persons who had deemed themselves wealthy awoke to the fact that they 
were reduced to beggary. Great distress was caused throughout England; 
almost all trades were stopped, which also affected this country. King 
George of England was in Hanover, Germany. Express after express 
was forwarded to him, urging his instant return to England to call Par- 
liament together to devise means to restore confidence. Parliament 
resolved to strip the plunderers of their ill-gotten riches. In 1724 there 
was collected the sum of nine millions and four hundred and seven 
thousand two hundred pounds to be used to relieve the distress of those 
who had suffered from the gigantic fraud ; but the distress was felt for 
many years afterwards. 

On account of the rapid rise in the stock of the South Sea Company 
the people became insane on the subject of companies. There were 
Water, Fishery, Manufacturing, and Foreign Trade Companies; also 
companies for fattening hogs and importing jackasses from Spain. All 
ordinary business was neglected. As money was rushed in one big flood 
towards London to invest in these companies, all other business came to 
a standstill. 

John Law's Banking and Mississippi Scheme, or " The Com- 
pany of the West," also came to grief in the memorable year of 1720, 
when Neptune entered the sign Gemini, and brought terrible distress 
to all parts of France. Like the South Sea Bubble in England, the 
John Law's Banking Scheme was going to pay off the national debt of 
France in a few years, and at a time when they could not pay one-quarter 
of the interest by the collection of all the taxes. 

The vision of having the sole trade of a fertile empire, with its plan- 
tations, manors, cities, and busy wharves on the Mississippi in North 
America — the certain product of the richest mines and mountains of 
gold were blended in the French mind into one boundless promise of 



76 ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 

treasure. Ingots of gold from the mines of Louisiana were to be seen 
in Paris. John Law became a Catholic, and was appointed Comptroller 
of Finance in France, and had a decree made that no person or corpo- 
ration should have on hand more than five hundred livres (a livre is about 
a franc) in specie. All taxes were to be collected in paper, and paper 
was made the legal tender in all payments. 

Law's Bank became, by negotiation with the Regent, the Bank of 
France, and its stock rose a thousand per cent. The new city of New 
Orleans and the valley of the Mississippi inflamed the imagination of 
France, and John Law's company obtained sole control of the commerce 
of Louisiana and Canada. The Regent's mother wrote to a friend 
"that the king's debts were all paid." 

Law might have regulated at his pleasure the interest of money, the 
value of stocks, the price of labor and produce. The Legislature 
enacted laws which forbade certain corporations to invest money in any 
thing but Mississippi stocks. All circulation of gold and silver, except 
for change, was prohibited. The public enthusiasm now arose to abso- 
lute frenzy, and Law's house and the street in front of it was daily 
crowded. As the stock rose in value, many wary speculators (contrary 
to law), foreseeing a crisis, had secretly converted their paper and shares 
into gold, which they transmitted to England or Belgium. Gold and 
silver becoming scarce, a general run was made on the bank; it stopped 
payment, and Law was compelled to flee the country. Much of the 
paper was cancelled, and the rest converted into " rentes " at an enor- 
mous sacrifice. 

The downfall of Law abruptly curtailed expense for Lousiana. In- 
stead of large and opulent cities people could now only see unwholesome 
marshes, which were the tombs of immigrants. Its name in France was 
a name of disgust and terror. Years afterwards there were only two 
hundred huts among the cane brakes where the city of New Orleans now 
stands. The loss to the community in France was enormous. The 
bank notes and stock of Law's bank, or the Bank of France, for which 
the people had paid hard cash, were worthless, and they had no money 
to carry on their business. The depression was felt for years afterward. 

NEPTUNE IN GEMINI FROM 1888 TO 1902. 

Neptune entered Gemini for the second time in the history of our 
country on the 27th of May, 1888. For a parallel to the Mississippi 
Company, or Law's Bank, I need only remind the reader of the Panama 
scandal, which has attracted the attention of the whole civilized world 
for the last few years. The effect of those scandals on France has been 
in every respect similar to John Law's Bank scandal ; also the South Sea 
Company in England. In all these cases numbers of people who stood 
high in the community had to flee the country ; some committed 
suicide, and some were expelled from Parliament both in England and 
France; others suffered imprisonment and disgrace. 

It must appear to the reader a remarkable coincidence that when any 
special planet in its passage around the heavens comes to the same sign 
it previously occupied, and which sign rules any particular country, that 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 77 

history almost appears to repeat itself. At least, if we are to judge by 
past history and present events, such is the case. 

For instance, when we read in the history of France the account of 
the breaking up of John Law's Bank and the collapsing of the Mississippi 
Scheme, the trials which followed, and the uproar and recrimination in 
the French Parliament at that time, if we could only change the date 
and names, we might think that we were reading the history of France 
in the years 1891— '92— '93. The accounts published in the papers of the 
trial, conviction, and imprisonment of the Count de Lesseps and his son, 
and those who were associated with them, for corruption, bribery, and 
defrauding the public ,- also the suicide of Renach and the running away 
of Dr. Herz, the parallel is complete. 

In England, in 1890 and 1891, they had almost a parallel to the 
South Sea Bubble in the Argentine Republic Scheme. The Baring 
Brothers, Bankers of London, suspended and came near failing on account 
of their investments in that country in building railways and other im- 
provements before they were really needed. Had it not been for the 
timely assistance of the Rothschilds, the Bank of France, and other rich 
corporations, there is no doubt but that one of the richest banking firms 
in the world would have gone under, and carried scores of other banks 
and business houses with them. Even as it was, it made a noted tight- 
ness in the money market, which was felt all over the civilized world. 
In the Argentine Republic money was so scarce for two years after- 
wards that gold remained at about three hundred per cent, premium. 

We are apt to smile when we read the accounts of the people in 
England during the excitement of the South Sea Bubble rushing with 
their annuities, from which they were certain of a safe and permanent 
income, to be exchanged for shares in the South Sea Company; a com- 
pany, as Shakspeare says, which had neither a u local habitation or a 
name," and that the rush was so great that the bank where the annuities 
were exchanged for shares was compelled to set tables and clerks in the 
street to accommodate the crowd. Yet at the last Presidential election, 
on Nov. 8, 1892, a large majority of the working classes in the United 
States were equally anxious to reduce their own wages over fifty per 
cent, by voting that the "Federal Government has no constitutional 
power to impose and collect tariff duties except for the purpose of reve- 
nue only."* Not only did they vote to reduce their own wages, but also 
to throw a large number of employees of workshops and factories out of 

*The ''New York Sun'' of August 16, 1893, in an editorial, said:— 

"Last year, in a season of general prosperity such as never blessed a nation living in the light 
of civilization, the prevailing industrial system was condemned with almost a revolutionary show 
of disapproval. All visible facts argued for a popular verdict directly opposed to that deliberately 
recorded by the immense majority. . . . Either the American public are a set of summer fools 
unparalleled in fairy tales, or the election a year ago was the most colossal uprising of a populace 
socialistically inflamed, against the representatives of prosperity, against the alleged robbery of the 
tariff that the world has seen. . . . The people of the United States went crazy on the 8th of No- 
vember, 1892." 

The above paragraph shows emphatically that there was some super-mundane influence in 
operation, similar to the Salem witchcraft. That workingmen should cast their votes to take the 
bread out of their own, their wives' and their children's mouths, shows that there has been an 
epidemic of insanity; and, as the ancients said, "whom the gods wish to destroy they first make 
mad." 



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employment altogether ; which will so overcrowd the farm hands and 
labor market, as to compel those laborers to work for a mere pittance, 
or remain unemployed and starving. 

Before the election last November it was asserted that the high tariff 
and the Mc Kin ley Bill made the hard times; since the election it has 
been the Sherman Silver Purchase Bill that is to blame for so many banks 
failing and the depression and stagnation in trade and business. 

It may appear singular to some of my readers that the four " schemes " 
that have produced such widespread distress in France and England were 
all true Americans. It is true that the first was represented as being 
in South America ; the second in what is now known as New Orleans, 
Louisiana ; the third in Central America, and the last again in South 
America. 

That some super-mundane influence has been in operation of late in 
the United States, which has in some way affected the mentality of man, 
I think cannot be denied. The stagnation in business is phenomenal, 
and the failing of banks and the breaking up of business houses, which 
first commenced in Australia, and which is now spreading over almost 
all parts of the United States, is certainly remarkable. 

Things will continue to remain in this unsettled condition, or at least 
no permanent improvement in business, until Neptune leaves the ruling 
sign of this country. 

The stagnation of business and the tightness of the money market is 
in some respects equal to the panic of 1873, when the United States 
Government demonetized silver, which had a marked effect in depressing 
business throughout this country and other parts of the world. 

On September 16, 1893, Neptune (before turning retrograde) stands 
at 130 34' in Gemini. On July 28, 1893, the President of the United 
States called an extraordinary session of Congress to meet on the 7th of 
August, the hottest part of summer, to devise means to relieve the stag- 
nation of business and the panic in the money market, which has caused 
so many failures of banks and business houses. 

As Neptune gets further into Gemini (after it turns direct) things will 
grow worse instead of better, more especially during the first four months 
of 1894, when Saturn will be in square to Mercury's place in the horoscope 
of this country. I look for more business houses and banks failing than 
there have been during the spring and summer of 1893. From May 1, 
1894, to April, 1895, Jupiter will be in the ruling sign of the United 
•States. Business then will be better than it has been for several years 
past. Afterwards things will continue unsettled until Neptune arrives to 
280 of Gemini. 

In the year 1900 Saturn will come to the opposition of Neptune in 
Gemini. Then I look for another epoch in the history of the United 
States, in many respects similar to the one from 1861 to 1865. In the 
latter part of this volume I shall treat of the events of the United States. 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 79 

THE SIGN TAURUS RULES IRELAND. 

In the forepart of this volume I mentioned that Aries rules England 
and that Ireland was ruled by Taurus ; and whenever there has been 
an evil planet in that sign, or in evil aspect to it, Ireland has suffered 
more or less. The planet Neptune entered the sign Taurus in the spring 
of 1875, but did not get far into the sign until the summer of 1876, 
when the disturbances commenced to be felt in Ireland. In 1879 it 
arrived at io n , when the Irish Patriots organized the Land League , and 
riots and evictions multiplied. But the most serious boycotts occurred in 
that country when Saturn also entered Taurus in 1881, when Charles 
Stewart Parnell, John Dillon, and hundreds of other prominent Irishmen 
were arrested, and trial by jury was practically abolished. But in the 
spring of 1882 Saturn and Neptune began to approach each other, and 
in May they both formed a conjunction with the Sun and Mars in the 
ruling sign of Ireland. 

At that time I was expecting some serious commotion or riots to 
occur in Ireland, when Lord Frederick Cavendish was murdered along 
with his Secretary, Thomas Henry Burke, on May 6th, 1882. Saturn 
continued to afflict Ireland's ruling sign until May 21, 1883, but Neptune 
did not leave that sign until the spring of 1888, when there was more 
peace and fewer evictions and imprisonments than there had been for 
many years. 

Is it a coincidence that now while there are no evil planets in the 
sign Taurus, but on the contrary the benevolent planet Jupiter is there, 
that Ireland is more peaceful than it has been for many years, and the 
British Parliament appears likely to grant it its own government, now 
while Jupiter is in its ruling sign ? This is certainly very singular. 
Jupiter entered Taurus in the early part of this year, and will remain in 
that sign (except during the month of September) until April, 1894. 

After Jupiter gets out of Taurus and when Saturn and Uranus are 
both in the sign Scorpio, in opposition to Taurus, I look for serious 
disturbance and riots in old Ireland. The years 1895, 1896, and 1897 
will be particularly unfortunate years for that country. No doubt we 
shall have another exhibition of the Kilkenny cats in that island, w'hich 
will continue until both Saturn and Uranus get out of the sign Scorpio, 
or from an opposition of Taurus. 

THE PERSONAL DESCRIPTION OF A MAN OR WOMAN 
DETERMINED BY THE PLANETS. 

Persons can almost always be described in their personal appearance, 
even without the Astrologer seeing them, by the sign on the eastern 
horizon and the planet having the most influence in the sign rising at 
their time of birth. This may be discredited by a number of my read- 
ers, as they will say that a child has always a similar personal appearance 
to either his father or mother, and that the signs and planets have nothing 
to do with it. 

If a child has a sign rising at the time of its birth which will describe 
a person like its father or its mother, then, as the physiologists say, "it 



80 ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 

takes after its father, or is like its mother." But if the sign rising at 
birth describes a person different to its father or mother, then the child 
does not resemble them, or, in other words, it does not take after them. 

I have known this remarkable coincidence to be verified in my own 
practice in thousands of instances, and without any exception, and all 
other Astrologers have had a similar experience. For instance, if 
a child is born with what Astrologers term a " tall sign " rising, and 
the planet having the most influence in that sign be in another tall 
sign, that child so born will be tall, no matter how short both its parents 
are. It is the same if a child is born under what is termed " short," 
or "stout," or " slender signs." The child always follows in its per- 
sonal appearance the description of the sign and the planets it is born 
under, and when the man or woman does not coincide in personal 
appearance with the sign rising and the planet having the most influence 
in that sign, we always know the time of birth given is not correct. 

I could give thousands of instances to verify this statement, but will 
give only one, which occurred in my own family. 

My brother's son, who resides in England, came on a visit to New 
York, and he requested me to cast his horoscope. He stated that his 
mother had told him that he was born on a given date at 1 2 o'clock at 
night. After the map of the heavens was erected for the time given I 
told him it was impossible for him to have been born at that time, as 
the sign rising would describe a tall, slender, light-complexioned person, 
and he was short, thick-set, and dark. On his return to England he 
asked his father for the exact time he was born. His father stated that 
it was at 6 o'clock in the evening. The son wrote to me, giving his 
corrected time of birth, and wishing me to write his horoscope. After 
the figure was set I wrote back that the time he had sent was also wrong, 
as it did not describe him. The son then visited his sister, who resided 
in another part of England, and who had the family Bible. He found 
it written in the Bible that he was born at 7:10 p. m. The sign then 
rising and the position of the planets described him correctly in every 
particular. 

I might go on filling a large volume with such facts were it necessary, 
and yet people who have no knowledge of the science of Astrology tell 
us that there is nothing in it, and some of tnem have repeated the false- 
hood so often that they have come to believe it themselves. 

THE AFFLICTING PLANETS DESCRIBE THE ASSASSINS 
IN REMARKABLE MURDER CASES. 

There is another remarkable coincidence which I have noticed, ana 
for a long time : that is, that when anything occurs in mundane affairs 
which attract widespread attention, such as murders or any serious acci- 
dents, there is always a remarkable configuration of the heavenly bodies. 
Generally, if not always, the persons having committed such murders, 
etc., can be described by the afflicting planets. 

I have examined a number of charts of the heavens for the time that 
a remarkable murder or other crime has been committed, and I have 



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often been astonished at the striking configuration of the planetary system 
at those times, and how clearly the heavens portrayed the person or 
persons who committed the deed. 

Possibly a few horoscopes of some of the assassinations or murders 
which have occurred in the last twenty or thirty years may not be unin- 
teresting to the general reader. They certainly will be interesting and 
instructive to the student of Astrology, if he examines them carefully. 
The first I shall notice is the assassination of President Lincoln. 



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The above chart of the heavens represents the position of the planets 
at the time of the assassination of President Lincoln on April 14, 1865, 
at 9:30 p. m., Washington time. If the Astrological student inspects the 
position of the planets in the above figure, he will see that the afflicting 
planets are Mars in Cancer in the 8th house (the house of death), in 
exact square to Neptune, on the cusp of the 5th house, in Aries. Also, 
he will notice Saturn in the 11th house in opposition to the Sun, also in 
the 5th house in Aries. 

The assassin is indicated by Mars in Cancer and Saturn in Libra. 
The books say : " It describes a person above the medium height, slender, 
with comely dark hair, oval face, prominent nose, large eyes, dark but 
clear complexion, and good looking ; one opinionated of himself, prodi- 
gal of expense. Also, Saturn in opposition to the Sun, if Saturn be 
significator ; the person is ambitious, overbearing, hating control, sub- 
ject to the frowns of people in power, and often meets a violent death." 

It may appear singular that Saturn in the house of friends indicated 
that a false friend did the deed : also the 5th house (where the 
President's planet was situated) indicates a theater or some place of 
amusement, etc. The Sun and Neptune are both in Aries (which sign 
rules the head), indicating that the President would be injured or 



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wounded in the head. \P resident Lincoln was shot in the head in a 
theatre.'] The close square of Mars to Neptune from the 8th house 
(the house of death), indicated certain death, and that the assassin shot 
with the deliberate intention to kill. 



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The above map of the heavens was set for the time President Garfield 
was shot by Charles Jules Guiteau, July 2, 1881, at 9:25 a. m., Wash- 
ington time. 

The student will notice that the Moon and Uranus are in the 
ascendant, also that Neptune in Taurus is in mundane square to the 
Moon, and the evil planet Saturn in conjunction with Mars, in mundane 
square to Uranus. The assassin is indicated by Neptune and Saturn. 

The books say : " Saturn in Taurus describes a person of middle 
stature, but in no wise comely, one who has an awkward appearance, 
not well made, rough in carriage, sordid, and vicious. Saturn in con- 
junction with Mars denotes a rash, turbulent disposition, one' who is 
generally unfortunate, engaged in some calling of a low order, and fre- 
quently ends his days in prison."* 

The Moon and Uranus in Virgo, in the ascendant denotes where 
President Garfield would be injured or wounded, as Virgo governs the 
lower part of the body and the intestines. 

Saturn and Neptune in the 9th house (the house of long journeys), 
indicates that Garfield was on a journey. [N. B. The President was 
just going to the train, intending to travel with his wife and family, 
whom he expected to meet in New York, throughout the greater part of 
the Eastern States.] 



* No doubt Mars in conjunction with Saturn caused Mr. Guiteau to be much lighter in com- 
plexion and thinner than what is regularly described as a Saturn in Taurus person. 



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This chart of the heavens was calculated for the time when Lord 
Frederick Cavendish and Mr. Thomas Henry Burke were found assassi- 
nated in Phcenix Park, Dublin, Ireland, on May 6, 1882, at 7:10 p. m., 
Dublin time. 

The assassins are indicated by the Sun, Saturn, Neptune, and Mer- 
cury, all in conjunction in Taurus in the 7th house, in close opposition 
to the ascendant. Of the four assassins indicated by the four planets, 
the two principal ones are described by Saturn and the Sun in close 
conjunction in Taurus. 

The books in desribing a person indicated by Saturn in Taurus, say : 
" He is of medium stature, rather heavy, with a rough carriage, dark 
hair, one who is awkward, with a lumpish appearance, not well made, 
sordid and vicious." Saturn in conjunction with the Sun indicates losses 
by men in power, who persecute him, and confine him within the walls 
of a prison for some contempt of law" He is seldom healthy, or 
of long life. 

The other principal assassin is described by the Sun in Taurus in 
conjunction with Saturn. The books say : "It denotes a short, well set, 
rather ugly person, with a dusky complexion, brown hair, large, broad 
face, wide mouth, and great nose. A confident, proud, and bold man, 
fond of opposition, proud of his physical strength, and generally 
vicious. 

The Sun in conjunction with Saturn denotes " a disagreeable, deceit- 
ful, unmerciful, unfortunate man, who loses his property by some specu- 
lation, which in the end often brings him to ruin ; particularly if he 
has anything to do with the government or people connected with the 
State." 

The other two assassins are indicated by the two planets, Neptune 



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and Mercury in Taurus, but it is not worth while to give their descrip- 
tion in these pages. 

It may appear singular that the parts of the murdered men's bodies 
injured, and the kind of death should be described by the heavens. The 
books say " that Taurus rules the throat," and these murdered men met 
their death by having their throats cut; also, they were wounded in the 
upper part of the chest ; and their planets being in fixed signs in angles 
shows that they were all near home, or not on a long journey, as in 
President Garfield's case. 



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This figure of the heavens shows the position of the planets when 
Carrie Brown (Old Shakespeare) was found murdered in a hotel in the 
lower part of the city of New York, on the morning of April 24, 1891, 
at 9 o'clock. 

The afflicting planet is Saturn (there was only one murderer in this 
case) in Virgo, just leaving the cusp of the 4th house, retrograde, and 
in opposition to Jupiter on the cusp of the 10th house. . 

The books say : " Saturn in Virgo describes a rather tall person with 
a spare body and swarthy complexion, dark brown or black hair, and a 
sordid countenance ; one unfortunate, inclined to melancholy, and re'ain- 
ing anger. 

As Saturn is retrograde, and just going into the 3d house (the house 
of journeys), it is evident that the murderer went away on a journey 
immediately after committing the deed, and did not return. 

Saturn in Virgo indicates the parts injured, that is the abdomen and 
lower part of the body. 

The Moon in Scorpio, in the 5th house, in opposition to the Sun, 
in aspect to Saturn and Jupiter, indicates that both the murderer and 
victim belonged to the degraded class ; also the kind of place the murder 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 8$ 

was committed in is indicated by the Moon in Scorpio in the 5th house; 
that is, a place of low resort, also a public house or a place of amuse- 
ment. 




The above chart shows the position of the signs and planets when the 
bodies of Mr. Andrew J. Borden and his wife were discovered on the 4th 
of August, 1892, at 11:13 a. M.,in Fall River, Mass. 

The afflicting planet in this figure is Mars in Aquarius in the 4th house, 
in close opposition to the Sun in Leo in the mid-heaven. It also shows 
beyond a question that it was a man, and not a woman, who did the 
deed, and he had no one with him. 

Mars in Aquarius, the books say, "gives a well composed body, 
rather corpulent, inclined to be tall, although frequently not above the 
medium height [I should say about 5 feet 8 inches], with a fair or san- 
guine complexion, sandy or auburn hair, mustache is yellow or sandy, 
round face, high forehead, quick, sparkling eyes, and has a straight and 
proud walk." Mars, in opposition to the Sun, "denotes a man of 
great ambition and violence, but his fortune is too evil to allow him 
to succeed." 

Mars in the 4th house in a fixed sign, indicates that the Bordens were 
murdered in their own house, also that the muderer did not go away 
off,as in the case of Carrie Brown's murderer. Therefore the murderer 
in this case is still in the neighborhood of the murder, or not very far 
away.* 



* The student of Astrology will notice that in all these five charts of the heavens, the afflicting 
planets are masculine and evil, which denotes that they were men who committed the murders. 
The last chart is more marked in this respect than any of the others. The reason that the man 
got away unnoticed and unsuspected, is also indicated by the planet Jupiter in the 7th house, and 
falling cadent, and the Moon in the 3d house leaving a trine or good aspect of it. 



86 ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 

The parts of the bodies injured are indicated by Sun in Leo, which 
rules the heart and upper parts of the body, and Mars rules all sharp 
tools or instruments. 

I have been very particular in giving the description of the murderer 
in this case, and if this publication has any effect in leading to his 
conviction and clearing an innocent woman from even suspicion, I shall 
deem myself amply rewarded for my labor. 

I was interested in reading the trial of Lizzie Borden, and could not 
help thinking that Mr. Knowlton, the prosecuting attorney, ought to 
have lived two hundred years ago. He would then have won everlast- 
ing fame as a persecutor of witches, and so overshadowed Cotton Mather 
that the reverend gentleman would have dropped into obscurity. 

When reading Mr. Knowlton's speech, describing how Lizzie Borden 
had first killed her step-mother, and then her father, I could not help 
believing that had he been addressing a Salem jury two hundred years 
ago, he could in that case have easily convinced them that the devil 
stood between her and her victims and caught every drop of blood, 
so that not a particle could reach her; and that it was his Satanic Maj- 
esty who instigated her to the deed, and gave her the strength of a 
giant to accomplish the fiendish work. In those days all warrants for 
the arrest of criminals read : "That the person had committed the deed 
with malice aforethought, being instigated thereto by the devil." 

But in these days the only way to convict an innocent person is to 
get some noted expert to show a chemical test before the jury, of which 
they are entirely ignorant (the more ignorant the better), and which 
may be proven entirely erroneous in the very next trial. 

As Mr. Knowlton was so anxious to convict Miss Borden, if he 
had only sent for a Philadelphia doctor to bring his microscope to ex- 
amine that small drop of menstrual blood that was found on her 
skirts (not half the size of a pin head), and that doctor had also 
stated before the jury, after examining it, that he would stake his life 
that the small particle of dried blood was part of the identical blood 
found saturating the floor and the bodies of the murdered victims, then 
he could have easily convinced the jury of her guilt, and had the 
pleasure of seeing an innocent woman swinging from the gallows. 

One would think the affliction bad enough when any person, either 
man or woman, has a relative assassinated in their own house, and 
without a moment's notice, and also come near being murdered them- 
selves, without being dragged off to prison and put to the trouble and 
expense of a trial, and have to fight for their life against all the power and 
influence of the State, moving heaven and earth for their conviction and 
execution. 



Another case of persecution occurred in the city of New York, in 
the supposed murderer of Carrie Brown. It has since been shown, 
almost beyond a question, that nearly all those vile women perjured 
themselves, yet that poor man, a stranger in a strange country, is unpar- 
doned and undischarged. The last I read about him, he had ..become 
insane, and was confined in an insane asylum. 



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ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 

Astrology may be divided into five divisions or parts, and each 
can be learned separately, similar to arithmetic. In arithmetic 
we first learn numeration, then addition, afterwards subtraction, 
multiplication and division, so Astrology can be divided into parts 
and learned in like manner. First the houses and their qualities, 
or what belongs to them. Second the aspects of the houses, or 
their relations to each other. Third the signs of the Zodiac and 
their relations or aspects to each other and their significations. Fourth 
the nature of the planets, their motions, revolutions and their sig- 
nifications, and their aspects to each other. Fifth their strength in 
the various houses and in the different signs of the Zodiac. It is easiest 
to learn one part thoroughly and understand it before the learner 
commences another part. It is impossible for a learner to get the proof 
of Astrology until he has become somewhat advanced in its study, but 
when he is advanced the proof comes of itself. I have never known 
a person who has learned Astrology that was not a thorough believer 
in it, the same as a person who has learned arithmetic is a firm believer, 
np. matter how skeptical he may have been before he had learned it. 
he science of Astrology is unique, and there is no science to be com- 
pared with it in one respect, that is, that all those persons who are the 
most ignorant of it appear to have some kind of intuition that tells 
them that it is utterly false or wicked, but those persons who have 
studied the subject always speak of it as a heavenly science or truth itself, 
and there is no other science that I know of that is like it in that par- 
ticular. In short, it generally happens that the persons who are the 
most ignorant of any one of the other sciences have generally the 
greatest confidence in it and its professors. For instance, a person who 
is ignorant of chemistry imagines that the chemist can anyalyze and know 
all about the elements of every material substance, and believes that the 
chemist can recombine or put together all the elements of matter so as to 
form any chemical substance that he chooses, and so on of any other 
natural science. But when he comes to study chemistry he finds that 
he has had altogether wrong notions on the subject. 

RUDIMENTS OF THE SCIENCE. 

The circle of the heavens is divided into four equal parts, and each 
part is composed of 90 degrees, making in all 360 degrees in the circle. 
The commencement of each one of these quarters is called an angle. 
These angles are the Eastern horizon, or where the sun rises ; the West- 
ern horizon - or where it sets ; the mid-heaven, or where the sun is at 
mid-day, and opposite the mid-heaven is called the Nadir, and it is that 
point directly under where we stand. Each of these quarters is 
divided into three parts of 30 degrees, which are called houses, and 
there are 1 2 houses in all. 

The fcncient writers named them mansions. These 12 houses are 
counted from the Eastern horizon, and they continue round the circle 



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ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 



from the East to the North, then to the West and so on round to the 
East again, or in the opposite direction to the rising, culminating or 
setting of the sun. The first house commences at the Eastern horizon 
and extends 30 degrees below; the second house commences at that 
point, or at the end of 30 degrees, and extends to 60 degrees below the 
horizon ; the third house commences 60 below the horizon and ends at 
the fourth house, or that point opposite the mid-heaven ; the fourth 
house extends 30 degrees to the next, or the fifth house, which extends 
30 degrees from that point to the sixth house, which extends to the 
western horizon or seventh house, which commences at the Western 
horizon and extends 30 degrees to the eighth house, which commences 
30 degrees from the Western horizon and extends 30 degrees to the 
ninth house ; and the ninth begins at 60 degrees from the Western 
horizon and extends to the tenth house or meridian, which commences 
at the mid-heaven and that extends to 30 degrees from the mid-heaven 
to the eleventh house ; the eleventh house commences 30 degrees from 
the mid-heaven and extends 60 degrees or to the twelfth house ; and 
the twelfth house commences at that point and terminates at the com- 
mencement of the first house, making in all 12 houses round the 
heavens, as shown by the accompanying figure. 




The reader will see bv the numbers in the chart that the houses are 
reckoned in the contrary direction to the rising, culminating and setting 
of the sun. The houses are divided into good and evil. The good 
houses, counting them in the order of their strength or importance, are 
the first, tenth, second, seventh, fourth, ninth, eleventh, fifth and 
third. The evil houses, counting them in the order of their 
strength for evil, are the eighth, twelfth and sixth. These houses 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 89 

are termed evil because they have no aspects to the ascendant or first 
house. When a planet is in an evil house, and a person is born under 
that planet, that person is weak, or he is subject to misfortunes, sickness 
or trouble of some kind ; but when a planet is in a good house and 
strong and unafflicted, it is said to be well dignified and causes the per- 
son born under it to be fortunate, if other good influence concur. The 
house that is the most fortunate or of the highest importance is the 
first ; the next in importance is the tenth house, and then follows the 
second, and so on. 

The heavens, besides being divided into what are termed four quar- 
ters and then into houses, are also divided into what are termed aspects, 
and those aspects are called mundane aspects to distinguish them from 
what are termed zodiacal aspects, which I shall speak of further on. 

These aspects are certain geometrical figures and are reckoned by 
the number of degrees from one point to another point. For instance, 
the angles are 90 degrees apart and are said to be in square aspect to 
each other. The heavens are also divided into three equal parts, 
termed triplicity, which are 1 20 degrees apart and are in trine aspect to 
each other. When the heavens are divided into six equal parts or 60 
degrees, that is termed a sextile aspect. But that part of the heavens 
which is opposite to the other is called an opposition. The trine 
aspects are said to be the strongest for good, the sextile are the second 
in strength for good, the semi-sextile or 30 degrees are the least strong 
for good ; the most evil aspect is the opposition, and next to that the 
square, and then what is termed a conjunction, or when two evil planets 
are of the same longitude that is said to be an evil aspect with 
qvil planets, and a fortunate aspect with good planets. The ascendant 
is in square to the mid-heaven and the fourth house and in opposition to 
the seventh house. The ascendant is in trine to the ninth and the fifth, 
and is in sextile to the eleventh and the third houses, therefore when 
any planet is in the seventh it is in opposition to the ascendant ; in the 
mid-heaven and the fourth it is in square to the ascendant, or in the 
ninth or fifth it is in trine to the ascendant, in the third or eleventh it 
is in sextile to the ascendant, and so on of the other houses. 

These aspects must be thoroughly committed to memory, and also 
the houses and their significations, or what they are said to govern. 

The houses are also divided into angles, succeedent and cadent. 
The angles said to be the strongest are the first, tenth, seventh and 
fourth ; the succeedent are the next in strength, that is, the second, 
fifth, eighth and eleventh. The cadent houses are the weakest of all ; 
they are the third, sixth, ninth and twelfth ; yet when a planet is in 
the ninth house it is said to be sometimes quite strong, provided it is 
not too near what is termed the eighth house ; if it is near the mid- 
heaven all the better. 

THE SIGNIFICATION OF THE TWELVE HOUSES. 

The first house is said to rule the life and health of the native ; the 

second his money or personal property ; the third his relatives and short 

r~._„u ,-k~ father aiK j landed property; fifth, children and 



90 ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 

pleasure ; sixth, sickness and small cattle ; seventh, marriage and public 
enemies ; eighth, death, legacies and wills ; ninth, religion, law suits, 
and long journeys; tenth, mother, business and honor; eleventh, 
friends, hopes, etc.; twelfth, secret enemies and imprisonment. 

One old author has summed up the twelve houses in the following 
verses ; it would be well for the reader to commit them to memory : 

First house shows life, the second wealth doth give*; 

The third, brethren, fourth, how parents live ; 

Issue the fifth, sixth diseases bring; 

The seventh wedlock, and the eighth death's sting j 

The ninth declares man's pious faith and zeal ; 

The tenth the glory of a common weal ; 

Our friendship from the eleventh house is known ; 

And sorrow from the twelfth to every one. 

A student must be well informed in the houses and their significa- 
tions before he ventures to go any further in the study of this science, 
therefore I give below the main significations of all the houses. 



The following more importafit parts of this volume will be printed 
in larger type, and each paragraph numbered for easy reference. 



THE NATURE, QUALITY AND DESCRIPTION OF THE 
TWELVE HOUSES.* 
1 First House. — This house signifies the life of man, stature, com- 
plexion and shape of the querent or native, because when the sun or 
any other star comes to that point they arrive and become visible in our 
horizon. It rules the head or face. If Mars be afflicted in this house in a 
nativitv or question it gives, one time or other, a wound or scar in the 
face or head. If Saturn or dragon's head be there, it gives a very 
coarse countenance and slovenly behavior. Of colors it has the white, 
that is if a planet be in this house which has signification of white, the 
complexion of the party will be very pale, white and wan. His apparel 
also will much incline to a white grey or very light color. So for cattle, 
when their significators or planets are found in this house, it denotes 
them to be of alight color. This house is masculine. 

2 Second House. — Signifies the neck and throat, the wealth, poverty, 
movable goods or money of the native or querent ; loss or gain by com- 
modity or money lent, profit or loss, or damage in law suits. It signi- 
fies the querent's monied friends or assistance. Of color it denotes 
green. Jupiter and Venus rejoice in this house, and if Jupiter or Venus- 
be strong, either in a question or nativity, it makes a man rich and for- 
tunate ; but Saturn and Mars weak in this house, and the dragon's tail 
there, makes him a beggar, or at least he wastes his estate, though it was 
never so considerable, by riotous living, fires, or losses. It is feminine. 

* The significations of the twelve houses given here, answers both for nativities and 
horary questions. 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 91 

3 Third House. — Rules the chest and arms and gives judgment con- 
cerning brothers, sisters, cousins, or kindred neighbors, short or inland 
journeys of the querent ; also about letters, rumors and news, messen- 
gers, etc., and removing from place to place. Of colors it has the red, 
yellow and sorrel. The planet Mars is not so fortunate in this house as 
some think, unless he be joined to Saturn by good aspect. This house 
is the joy of the Moon ; for if she be posited therein, especially in a 
movable sign, it is an argument of much travel to the native and that to 
advantage, too, if she be there strong and friendly beheld by the for- 
tunes. But if afflicted there without reception, the native will be 
always trudging and trotting about to little purpose ; and if the dragon's 
tail happens to be there, he will be cheated if not robbed and abused in 
his travels. It is a masculine house. 

4 Fourth House. — Signifies old people in general, the native or 
querent's father, lands, houses, tenements and inheritances ; tilling the 
earth, hidden treasure and mines of all kinds ; the end or conclusion of 
any design, project or undertaking; ancient dwellings, gardens, orchards, 
fields and pastures ; the quality and nature of the ground the querent 
is about to purchase ; whether they are vineyards, corn-fields or chases, 
or whether the ground be barren, strong or woody. It is the north 
angle and rules in man's body the breast and the lungs and is femi- 
nine. Color, red or yellow. The Sun and Venus, if in this house in 
good aspects with the lord of the ascendant, or second house, the 
native or querent will inherit or have an estate fall to him from or by 
means of his father, especially if the lord of the eighth house behold 
either of them with a benevolent aspect. 

5 Fifth House. — This house rules the stomach and liver, and we 
give judgment concerning children, ambassadors, of the state of a woman 
with child, whether it be male or female, as also of banquets, plays, 
games, dancing, music, pleasure, delight and merriment ; of the health 
or sickness of the querent's son or daughter; it also denotes ale-houses, 
taverns, messengers and agents, for merchants or others trading at sea; 
the wealth or poverty of the father. Of color, black, dark or honey. 
Leo and Venus joy in this house, because Venus is the fifth planet and 
Leo is the fifth sign of the Zodiac. Saturn is wholly unfortunate when 
it is in this house ; all authors agree that Saturn or Mars in the 
fifth* house never fails to give the native or querent cruel, stubborn, 
obstinate, rebellious and disobedient children ; and also unfortunate in 
speculation. It is masculine. 

6 Sixth House. — Governs the abdomen ; and men and maidser- 
vants, day laborers, galley slaves, all manner of small cattle, such as 
deer, goats, hares, conies, loss or gain from them, the sickness of the 
querent or native, whet short, curable or not ; likewise 



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farmers, tenants, and it also denotes uncles and aunts by the father's 
side. This hou§e, having no aspect to the ascendant, is therefore called 
mala fortuna, the house of evil fortune ; yet if Jupiter, Venus, dragon's 
head or Mercury be well placed and aspected in this house, and Mars 
behold Mercury with a friendly ray, it makes the native or querent an 
able physician if he undertakes that employment. Of colors it governs 
black. Mars rejoices in this house, but the chief consignificators are 
Virgo and Mercury. It is a feminine house. 

7 Seventh House. — Rules the kidneys and the lower part of the back, 
and gives judgment concerning marriage ; it describes the person 
inquired after, whether it be man or woman ; all sorts of love ques- 
tions or public enemies ; all men whom we have common dealings 
with, all quarrels, lawsuits and duels. In Astrology and medicine it 
signifies the artist himself; it also signifies grandfathers, thieves and 
theft, the persons stealing, whether man or woman ; wives or sweet- 
hearts, their shapes, descriptions, and conditions, whether nobly or igno- 
bly born ; fugitives or runaways or outlawed men. Saturn or Mars in 
the seventh or the Moon ill-placed in this house shows very unfortunate 
marriages. Of color, dark or black. This is the angle of the west and 
is masculine. 

8 Eighth House. — Signifies death, sadness and sometimes riches never 
thought of; wills, deeds and legacies of the dead, the estate of the 
debtor, of querent's wife, or whom he deals with, portion of the maid, 
whether much or little, easy to be got or with difficulty. In duels it 
denotes the adversary's second, in lawsuits the defendant's friends, what 
kind of death a man may die. It signifies fear and anguish of mind, 
and the heir to the querent ; it rules the privy parts. Of colors, green 
and black. Of diseases, the piles, stone, strangury, poisons, etc. Femi- 
nine house. 

9 -Ninth House Signifies religion, learning, books, art and science ; 

judgment is given of voyages and long journeys by sea or land; clergy- 
men in general, as bishops and inferior ministers ; dreams and visions, 
news or letters from foreign parts, the kindred of the husband, wife or 
sweetheart. Of colors it has the green and white, of man's body the 
hips and thighs. If Jupiter be herein well placed it naturally signifies a 
devout man, or one modestly given ; the dragon's tail, Mars or Saturn 
are very unfortunate in this house and make a man an agnostic or infi- 
del, and also unfortunate as a minister, lawyer or in law suits. It is 
masculine. 

10 Tenth House. — Personates kings and princes, dukes, earls, judges, 
commanders-in-chief in armies and towns, all sorts of officers in author- 
ity, mother of the querent, honors, preferment, dignity, office, the pro- 



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fession or trade any one uses ; it signifies kingdoms, countries, empires, 
dukedoms. Colors, red and white. It rules the knees and hams. Con- 
figurators of this house are Capricorn and Mars; it is called the mid- 
heaven and is feminine. Jupiter or the Sun well placed in this house 
gives great honor to the native or querent, but Saturn, Mars or dragon's 
tail usually denies honor to persons and little success in their employ- 
ment or calling. 

li Eleventh House. — From this house we acquire judgment concern- 
ing friendship and friends, their qualities and conditions, the querent's or 
native's hopes, a harbor or relief to voyagers, the assistance of princes, 
their money and allies; it signifies the exchequer, the king's council, 
ammunition and soldiers. In a commonwealth, governed by a few 
nobles and commons, it shows their assistance in council, as in New 
York the tenth house denotes the mayor, the eleventh the common 
council, the ascendant or first house the generality of the commoners of 
the city. Of members it rules the legs to the ankles. Of color it rules 
saffron or yellow. Aquarius and the Sun are cosignificators of this 
house. Jupiter in this house gives good and faithful friends. And it is 
as strong in this house as in either of its signs, { $ or )£ ) in the other 
houses. It is a masculine house. 

12 Twelfth House. — It has signification of private enemies and evil 
tongues, as also great cattle, as horses, cows or oxen. It also signifies 
sorrow or tribulation, prisons, imprisonment, jails and jailers, treason 
and all manner of villainy, chronic diseases, with all other torments 
and afflictions. It is the house of self undoing, for if the lord of the 
ascendant be afflicted in this house, it denotes the querent will be the 
occasion of his own misfortunes. It has for cosignificators Pisces and 
Venus. Saturn does much joy in this house, for naturally Saturn is 
author of mischief. It rules in man's body, the feet. Of colors it, rules 
green, and is a feminine house. 



Before the reader proceeds any further he ought to get the twelve 
houses and their significations committed to memory, and should 
commence learning the first house and then the second house, and so on 
until he knows them all, and can repeat the houses and their significa- 
tions from memory. He should also learn to be able to change the 
ascendant, either in his own horoscope or any other person's horoscope. 
For instance in the chart of the native his father's ascendant 
is the fourth house, and then the fither's second house, Or the 
house connected with his father's money matters is the fifth 
house, the sixth is his father's brother or his neighbors; the 
seventh house, his land or property ; the eighth house is his father's 
children ; the ninth house is his father's sickness ; the tenth 
house is his father's wife or his own mother, or his public enemies ; the 



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eleventh house is his father's house of death ; the twelfth house is his 
father's house of long journeys, religion or lawsuits, The first house > 
his father's house of business or honor ; the second house is his father's 
house of friends ; and the third house is his father's house of secret ene- 
mies, imprisonment, and so on. He also takes the seventh house for the 
first house of his wife or lover, etc.; in like manner the tenth house is 
the first house for his mother, and then the eleventh house would be 
the house of her money or movable property, etc., and so on all round 
the heavens. The student must get these houses and their signifi- 
cations thoroughly committed to memory. He must be able when 
any question whatever comes up to refer it to its proper house without 
any hesitation and not have to guess at it, and unless he learns the 
house's thoroughly he will never make a good Astrologer. He must 
learn them the same as he ought to learn his multiplication table, and 
never mind being laughed at by persons who are ignorant of Astrology. 
He must be able to treat them as John Foster advised persons who 
wanted to learn " Decision of Character " Mr. Foster advised his stu- 
dents to reply in this manner : " You will laugh or smile, w'lll you ; 
much good may it do you. I do not care if the whole neighborhood 
laugh in a chorus ; of course I should be sorry to see such a number of 
fools altogether, but glad to think that you do not consider me one of 
your number. What should I think of my science if it required the 
aid of vain and shallow minds who cannot understand it, or what should 
I think of myself if I should shrink at your sneers?" After you have 
once mastered thoroughly the science of Astrology, you will not laugh 
at those persons who are ignorant of that science — you will simply pity 
them. 

The reader ought to bear in mind that the houses should always be 
learned first, as they are the foundation of Astrology, and like other 
foundations they never change but always remain fixed in their various 
places in the heavens, only so far as we may change them, as the fourth 
house being the first house for the father ; the seventh house being the 
first house for the wife ; and the tenth house being the first house for 
the mother, and so on. After the student has thoroughly learned the 
houses, he then proceeds to learn the twelve signs of the Zodiac, 
namely : Aries °p , Taurus tf , Gemini EE, Cancer <2>, Leo Si, Virgo TTQ, 
Libra =^, Scorpio T^[, Sagittary $ , Capricorn V3, Aquarius £?, and 
Pisces X. 

The signs are constantly changing their position in the heavens, 
and do not remain fixed like the houses, one sign rises on the average 
every two hours, as there are twelve signs in the Zodiac and twenty- 
four hours in the day, the earth turns on its axis once in twenty-four 
hours, each sign passes the midheaven every day. Like the houses 
they are divided into four different parts, and the first is what is termed 
the cardinal or movable signs, and those are Aries, Cancer, Libra and 
Capricorn ; the second are fixed signs, and are Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, 
and Aquarius ; the next are common signs, that is, neither movable, 
cardinal nor fixed, but between the two ; they are Gemini, Virgo, 



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Sagittary and Pisces. For instance, if a person is born with a fixed 
sign on the ascendant, or his planet in a fixed sign, that person is apt to 
be more fixed and determined in his natural disposition and cannot be 
easily changed, but if a person is born with a movable sign on the 
ascendant, or his planet is in a movable sign, then he is apt to change 
and be very changeable and likely to move around a great deal. 
The movable signs, like the cardinal houses, are in square aspect to each 
other. The fixed signs are also in square aspect, and the com- 
mon signs are in square aspect to each other. The signs are 
also divided into what are termed the trigons or triplicities ; 
they are called the fiery triplicity, the earthy triplicity, the 
airy triplicity, and the watery triplicity. These triplicities are in trine 
or good aspect to each other. The signs of the fiery triplicity are 
Aries, Leo and Sagittary ; the earthy triplicity is Taurns, Virgo and 
Capricorn ; the airy triplicity is Gemini, Libra and Aquarius ; the 
watery triplicity is Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces. The fiery triplicity is 
termed hot and dry ; that is, when a person is born with a sign of the 
fiery triplicity on the ascendant, and his planet is also in a fiery sign, that 
person is more liable to fevers and fires, or suffers from heat, and is gen- 
erally what is called hot-tempered or quick and active. The earthy 
triplicity is cold and dry, and persons born under the earthy 
triplicity are of a cold and dry nature. When born under the 
airy triplicity they are hot and moist and generally good natured and 
kind-hearted. The watery triplicity causes persons to be phlegmatic 
and generally fond of the water or liquids, and are often successful con- 
nected with both, provided their planets are not afflicted in watery 
signs. 

They are also divided into the Eastern, Southern, Western and 
Northern signs. The Eastern signs are the fiery triplicity and are 
Aries, Leo and Sagittary ; the Southern signs or earthy triplicity are 
Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn ; the Western signs or airy triplicities are 
Gemini, Libra and Aquarius, and the Northern signs or watery triplicity 
are Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces. The signs are also divided into fruit- 
ful and barren signs. The fruitful signs are Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces, 
and the barren signs are Gemini. Leo and Virgo. Those persons born 
under planets in a fruitful sign are apt to have a number of children. 
Those born under planets in barren signs are likely to have but few or 
possibly no children. They are also divided into the signs of voice, that is, 
those persons born with their planets in the signs of voice are apt to be 
' very good speakers or writers; these signs are Gemini, Libra, Sagittary 
and Aquarius ; they are sometimes also called human signs. Persons 
born under those signs are generally more humane and kinder hearted 
than persons born under planets in other signs, or under planets in what 
is termed beastial signs. The beastial signs are Aries, Taurus, Leo, 
Capricorn and the last half of Saggittarius. 

The mute signs are Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces. Those persons 
born with their planet in these signs are apt to have an impediment in 
their speech or are very poor talkers or public speakers. The signs are 
also divided into Equinoctial, which are Aries and Libra, that is, when 



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the Sun is in either of these signs it is said to cross the line of equinox. 
The tropical signs are Cancer and Capricorn. These signs are also 
divided into masculine and feminine. The masculine are reckoned 
from Aries, then every other sign is called masculine, that is, Aries, 
Gemini, Leo, Libra, Sagittary and Aquarius. Those (whether men or 
women) born with their planet in masculine signs are generally more 
masculine than other persons. The feminine signs are Taurus, Cancer, 
Virgo, Scorpio, Capricorn and Pisces. The signs are also divided into 
dry and moist signs; the dry signs are Aries, Taurus, Leo, Virgo, 
Sagittary and Capricorn. Those persons born with their planets in 
these signs are more dry in their nature and apt to be more feverish when 
ill than other persons. The moist signs are Gemini, Cancer, Scorpio, 
Libra, Aquarius and Pisces, and persons born with their planets in those 
signs partake of their nature. They are also divided into the Northern 
and Southern signs. The Northern signs are Aries, Taurus, Gemini, 
Cancer, Leo and Virgo. The Southern signs are Libra, Scorpio, Sagit- 
tary, Capricorn, Aquarius and Pisces. The Northern signs are always 
in opposition to the Southern signs and are always on opposite houses. 
For instance, if the sign Aries is on the ascendant or rising, the sign 
Libra will be on the seventh house or setting, and so on of all the other 
Northern and Southern signs. 

The fiery signs, Aries, Leo and Sagittary are in trine aspect or 120 
degrees apart, the earthy signs are the same or in trine aspect, and so is 
the airy and watery signs ; all the signs in a triplicity are in trine aspect 
to each other. The fiery and airy signs are in sextile to each other, 
that is, Aries is in Sextile to Gemini, Leo is in sextile to Libra, and 
Sagittary in sextile to Aquarius, so is the earthy and watery signs in 
sextile to each other, that is, 60 degrees apart : Taurus is in sextile to 
Cancer, Virgo to Scorpio, and Capricorn to Pisces. 

All the movable or cardinal signs are in square aspect to each other 
or 90 degrees apart, that is, Aries in square to Cancer, Cancer in square 
to Libra, and Libra in square to Capricorn, and Capricorn is in square 
to Aries. The fixed signs are in square to each other ; Taurus is in 
square to Leo ; Leo in square to Scorpio, and Scorpio in square to 
Aquarius. The common signs are in square to each other ; Gemini is 
in square to Virgo ; Virgo in square to Sagittary, and Sagittary in square 
to Pisces, and vice versa. 

The student should commit all these aspects and divisions of the 
signs to memory, so that he can repeat them without a single mistake, 
the same as the multiplication table. He may not see the benefit of it 
at present, and think it may all come to him afterwards when he begins 
practicing Astrology, but he will find that he has a great deal to learn 
besides these signs and their various triplicities and aspects, and there- 
fore it is best for him to be as perfect as possible in this part of Astrology 
before he proceeds any further. After he has mastered this part of the 
science then he must learn how to describe a person by the twelve signs 
of the Zodiac : it will also be advisable for him to commit this part to 
memory so that he can repeat the whole from rv°*»i n g to end. 



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GENERAL APPEARANCE OF PERSONS DESCRIBED 
BY THE TWELVE SIGNS OF THE ZODIAC. 



Aries °p. 
13 Describes a person not exceeding in height or very tall, 
but lean or spare, large bones, and his limbs strong, the visage 
long, black or reddish eyebrows, a long scraggy neck, thick 
shoulders, the complexion dusky, brown or swarthy. 

Taurus & . 
14 It represents one of short stature, but full, strong and 
well set, a broad forehead, great eyes, large swarthy face and 
broad strong shoulders, great mouth and thick lips, large 
hands, black or coarse reddish hair. 

Gemini n. 

1 5 An upright, tall, straight, thin or well built body, either 
in man or woman ; the complexion sanguine, not clear but 
obscure and dark ; long arms, yet many times the hand and 
feet short and fleshy; dark hair, almost black; a strong 
active body, a good piercing eye, and of perfect and quick 
sight, of excellent understanding and judicious in worldly 
affairs. 

Cancer ®. 

16 Generally a low and small stature, the upper parts larger 
than the lower, a round face, sickly pale and white com- 
plexion, the hair brown, little eyes, prone to have many 

children, if a woman. 

Leo SI. 

1 7 Great round head, large prominent or staring eyes, quick 
sighted; a full and large body, and more than of middle 
stature ; broad shoulders, narrow sides, yellow or dark flaxen 
hair, and it curling or turning up ; a fierce countenance, but 
ruddy high sanguine complexion ; strong, valiant and active, 
step firm and mind courteous. 

Virgo ttji. 

1 8 A slender body, rather tall, but well composed ; a ruddy or 
brown complexion, black hair, well favored or lovely, but not 
a beautiful creature ; small, shrill voice, judicious and exceed- 
ingly well spoken, studious and given to history, whether 
man or woman. It produces a rare understanding if Mer- 
cury be in this sign, and Moon in Cancer, but somewhat 
unstable. 

Libra =£=. 

19 It personates a well formed body, straight, tall and more 



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subtle or refined rather than gross ; a round, lovely and beau- 
tiful face; a pure sanguine color; in youth no abundance 
or excess in either red or white, but in age pimples or a very 
high color ; the hair is yellowish, smooth and long ; eyes gen- 
erally blue and temper even. 

Scorpio t\[. 

20 A corpulent, strong, able body, somewhat broad or 
square face ; a dusky, muddy complexion and dark hair, 
much and crisping; a hairy body; somewhat bow-legged; 
short necked ; a stout, well-trussed person. 

Sagittary £ . 

21 It represents a well-favored countenance, somewhat long- 
face, but full and ruddy or almost like sunburned, the hair 
light chestnut color, the stature somewhat above the middle 
size, a conformity in the members, and a strong able body ; 
inclined to baldness, and one fond of horses. 

Capricorn V3. 

22 Usually a dry body, not high of stature, long, lean and 
slender face, thin beard and black hair, a narrow chin, 
long small neck and narrow chest. I have found many times 
Capricorn ascending the party to have light hair, but in the 
seventh, or setting, dark. 

Aquarius /%. 

23 It represents a thick or stout corporature, or one of a 
strong plump, well-composed body, not tall ; a long visage, 
sanguine complexion ; if Saturn, who is lord of this sign, be in 
Capricorn or Aquarius, the party has, dark or black hair and 
in complexion sanguine, with prominent teeth, otherwise I 
have observed the party is of clear, light or fair complexion, 
and of sandy colored hair or very, flaxen, and a very pure skin. 

Pisces X- 

24 A short stature, not very well made ; a good large face, 
pale complexion, the body fleshy or swelling; not very 
straight, but stooping somewhat with the head when walk- 
ing; inclined to lean forward. 



The student had better learn to memorize the genera] description 
of the 12 signs of the Zodiac, and he ought to bear in mind that what 
ever planet may be in any of these signs, it is always more or less tinged 
by the description of the signs above named. For instance, if eirher 
Saturn, Mars or Jupiter or anv other planet be in the sign Aries, the 
person is generally near the middle height, rather large bones, strong 
limbs, longish face &c. Also if the planet be in the sign Taurus, no 
matter what planet it is, it has a tendency to make the person born under 



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that planet, inclined to be short and stout, and so on. He had also 
better learn to associate in his mind the "short" and "tall" signs, and 
"stout" and "thin" signs. For instance, Aries, Gemini, Virgo, Libra 
and Sagittary and sometimes Aquarius will describe a tall person, and he 
will be but seldom stout, more apt to be slender or thin. The short 
signs are Taurus, Cancer, Leo, Scorpio, Capricorn and Pisces, and 
sometimes Acquarius. The persons born with their planets in those 
signs, are very likely to be below the medium height, although some- 
times Pisces will describe a tall and stout built person ; it depends what 
planet is in that sign. For instance Mercury in the sign Pisces, will 
describe a person short, and Jupiter or the Sun in the sign Pisces, the 
person is almost certain to be tall and stout. The stout signs are Taurus, 
sometimes Cancer, Leo, Scorpio and Pisces, and sometimes Aquarius ; 
but after the student once becomes familiar with those signs and their gen- 
eral description, he can instantly form an opinion by the aspects of the 
planets of what description the person is ; and in that manner correct 
the time of birth, if the person does not know the correct time, or has 
given the wrong time of birth. 

The student will next learn the description of persons born under 
the various planets, and also their signification. He must bear in mind 
that the planet, no matter what sign it is in always has a certain 
characteristic belonging to itself, and he can generally tell whether a 
person is a Jupiter or Venus person by their personal appe?j:ance, no 
matter what sign that planet is in ; also he can distinguish between a 
Saturn and a Mars person, and so on, in regard to any other planet. 
He had best read and then commit to memory, if possible, the kind of 
persons described by the eight planets. 

I will here state that it has not yet been fully learned how to describe 
the appearance of persons born under Neptune in each of the twelve 
signs of the Zodiac, as sufficient time has not elapsed since its 
discovery to have made proper observations. I shall have something to 
say on this- subject in the latter part of this book ; the student and also 
the professors of Astrology, should be very careful, and not give special 
descriptions of persons born under what is called the new planet, until 
we become more familiar with it, both in its characteristics and the 
kind of persons it descj'ibes. 

PERSONS DESCRIBED BY THE EIGHT PLANETS. 

I will here preface what is meant by a planet being well dignified, or 
ill dignified. A planet is said to be well dignified when in good aspect 
to good planets, or in a sign in which it is said to be strong and not 
afflicted, or in its own si?m. A planet is said to be ill dignified when 
in evil aspect to evil planets, or in a sign in which it is said to be weak, 
or what is termed in its "detriment" or "fall." 

The Description of Herschel. 

25 It indicates a person above the medium height, more 
apt to be well built or slender and wiry, than stout, especi- 



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ally if that planet is in the ascendant ; has a tendency to be 
dark complexioned rather than light, but if light, a very light 
blonde, with yellow hair. High forehead, rather full face and 
that somewhat distorted, and generally a wide mouth ; rather 
small, restless, grey, brown or hazel eyes, but seldom blue or 
black eyes, spare beard and likely to become bald before mid- 
dle age. Active in manner, fond of study, also f ond of science, 
inventive and fond of the occult or mysterious. He is seldom 
of a pleasant appearance, and generally odd or eccentric in his 
behavior. This is the description of Herschel persons when 
not in aspect to other planets, but when in aspect to other plan- 
ets, the native partakes very much of the nature or quality of 
those planets. 

26 When well dignified it describes a person well built, 
and nearly six feet high, of a commanding appearance and 
of great energy and perseverance. He will probably make 
some invention or discovery that will cause him to become 
famous or very wealthy. Has a great liking for astrology, 
astronomy, chemistry, etc., and will easily become an adept 
in those sciences. 

27 When ill-dignified it describes a person rather slender, 
and but seldom above the medium height, disagreeable and 
odd in his manner, with some deformity, either in his per- 
sonal appearance, walk or actions ; also restless and unsettled. 

28 Herschel naturally describes old persons, especially old 
maids or batchelors, recluses or hermits, and those w r ho but 
seldom go into company. It rules furnaces, labatories, 
wild, unfrequented places, old, desolate buildings, antique 
furniture, statuary, old books and old pictures. 

Of Saturn. 

29 He naturally represents one of a middle stature, dark 
or swarthy complexion, little eyes, lowering eye-brows, 
flattish nose, thick lips, and stoops forward with his head 
when walking; large ears, dark or black hair, thin beard, 
and sometimes none at all ; in short, a very peevish, melan- 
choly and clumsy person, when in no aspect, but in aspect 
to other planets, you must mix their significations ac- 
cordingly. 

30 When Saturn is well dignified the persons signified by 
him are grave and sober, performing all their actions with 
judgment and discretion, having a searching fancy, and much 
given to study. 

3 1 When he is ill dignified he signifies a malicious, envious, 
covetous, jealous, lying, dissembling, thievish person, not 
regarding his word or reputation. 



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32 Saturn naturally signifies old men, as grandfathers and 
fathers, as also persons who dig in mines or pits of the earth, 
husbandmen, day laborers, clowns, beggars, brickmakers, 
colliers, gardeners, sextons, tanners and curriers of leather, 
monks and Jesuits. 

Of Jupiter. 

33 Jupiter naturally describes one of a tall stature, of a 
ruddy complexion and smiling countenance, an oval visage, 
high forehead and comely grey eyes, the hair soft and 
auburn, or of a light brown ; much beard and the body every 
way handsomely formed ; of a prudent and commendable 
carriage ; sober and grave in his speech and just and upright 
in all his actions. 

34 But when this planet (though a fortune) is ill dignified, 
he denotes the persons signified by him to be a mere dissem- 
bler, a hypocrite in matters of faith and religion, ignorant 
and careless and of a dull capacity, and instead of doing good 
he contrives ways and tricks to cheat his friend under a pre- 
tense of doing him a kindness. 

35 He signifies clergymen and civilians, bishops, priests, 
judges and senators, young scholars and students in the law, 
clothiers and woolen drapers and all sorts of trades that deal 
in wool or woolen clothing. 

Of Mars. 

36 He represents a person of a middle stature, big-boned, 
and a strong able body, of a ruddy brown complexion and 
round visage, his hair for the most part red or of a sandy 
flaxen (unless in an earthy sign) and curling, a piercing 
sharp hazel eye, of a bold, lofty spirit, and a confident and 
undaunted countenance. 

37 When he is well dignified he represents a person of a pru- 
dent behavior, though bold and confident, excellent in war, 
taking all the feats of honor upon himself, a boaster of his 
own acts; in fine he is really valiant and scorns to be 
overcome. 

38 When ill dignified he delights in quarrels, murder and 
thievery and all evil actions, a traitor, and of a rash, inhu- 
man, turbulent spirit, neither fearing God nor man. 

39 Mars represents conquerors, usurpers, tyrants, or pre- 
tended kings, ruling by oppression and usurpation, colonels, 
captains and soldiers, physicians, apothecaries, surgeons, 
gunners, bailiffs, marshals, butchers, bakers, smiths, cutlers, 
barbers, watchmakers, cooks and carpenters. 

Of Sun. 

40 He represents a person of a plump, corpulent body, 
large face, broad, high forehead, a saffron or honey colored 



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complexion, great full eyes, yet a sharp sight, the hair yel- 
low or light flaxen, much beard, generally of a great spirit, 
though honest, humane and courteous and of a healthful 
constitution. 

41 When well dignified he inclines a person to honorable 
and great undertakings, for the most part high-minded, 
faithful and generous, very prudent and desirous of rule or 
sovereignty, of a very noble and majestic spirit, yet is very 
punctual and just to his friends and keeps his promise, even 
to his enemies, a mortal hater of all base and dishonorable 
actions. 

42 When ill dignified he gives a proud, domineering, trou- 
blesome, vaporing person, using neither gravity in his words 
nor sobriety in his actions, always boasting of his pedigree, 
a mere spendthrift, careless of his family or estate, a hanger 
on and depender upon other men's charity. 

43 The Sun signifies persons of the highest degree of men, 
as emperors, kings, princes, dukes, marquises, earls, barons, 
courtiers and magistrates of all sorts, as also gentlemen in 
general. In trades he denotes goldsmiths, minters of 
money, coppersmiths, braziers and pewterers. 

Of Venus. 

44 Venus describes one of a comely, middle stature, 
round or oval, f aCe and handsome visage, a whitish or clear 
complexion, curious lovely eyes, fair smooth hair, most 
commonly of light brown ; red and cherry cheeks, with little 
becoming dimples in them or in the chin, the face fleshy, 
smooth and amiable, the person, whether man or woman, 
every way exceedingly handsome and delightful, and well 
shaped, going neat and decent in every part, both 

and person. 

45 When she is well dignified the person descril 
pleasing disposition, a lover of pleasure and de 
music and the fine arts ; one who goes very cleanh 

in apparel, zealous in affection, often entangled in love mat- 
ters, nothing mistrustful or suspicious, a right virtuous 
person, be it either man or woman. 

46 If ill dignified she signifies a person given to incestuous 
habits, to rioting and lewdness, not regarding his or her 
reputation, a hunter of concert-halls and saloons, carelessly 
wasting his money and estate, using neither faith nor con- 
science in conversation ; and if Venus be in square or opposi- 
tion to Mars in any woman's nativity or question, it denotes 
her a vile drunken creature, as also a notorious thief and liar. 

47 She signifies all sorts of maids, wives and widows, 
musicians, painters, players, gravers, jewellers, silkdealers, 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. IO3 

gamesters, perfumers, embroiderers, seamstresses, drawers 
of pictures, artists, glovers, and allssuch commodities that 
adorn women. 

Of Mercury. 

48 He represents a person medium tall and straight of 
body, a long visage, high forehead, long nose, thick brown 
or black hair, but little beard ; his face of a dark or swarthy 
complexion, long arms and hands. If in aspect to Saturn, 
more dull and heavy ; if with Jupiter more temperate ; with 
Mars, rash and passionate; with the Sun, more generous; 
with Venus, merry and jesting; with the Moon, a mere 
shifter and deceiver. Mercury is much influenced by any or 
all the planets he is in aspect with. 

49 When well dignified in a question or nativity the person 
signified by him is of a pregnant wit, desirous of learning ; 
attaining anything with ease, eloquent in his speeches, aim- 
ing at the perfection of the arts ; he is often desirous of travel 
into foreign countries, and is the author of many curious and 
notable inventions. 

50 If weak or ill dignified then he signifies one given to 
boasting, prating and lying, a pretender to all manner of 
knowledge, but not capable of any, a mere conceited cox- 
comb, a thievish, cheating person, given to strife, conten- 
tion and unreasonable disputes, a troublesome wit, with 
which he employs his pen and tongue against every man and 
generally without any just cause or reason. 

51 Mercury generally signifies philosophers, astrologers, 
mathematicians, schoolmasters, poets, advocates, merchants, 
secretaries, accountants, solicitors, clerks, stationers, print- 
ers, booksellers, tailors, usurers, carriers and messengers. 

Of Moon. 

52 She denotes one of a large stature, round, pale or 
whitish face, grey eyes, and sometimes one bigger than the 
other ; the hair brown or light brown, an abundance of hair 
and beard ; the body plump, having thick fleshy hands and 
fingers. 

53 When well dignified she denotes a lover of all honest arts 
and inventions, delights in novelties, and naturally inclined 
to remove and shift from place to place ; a very timorous 
and easily frightened person, but a soft and tender and well- 
disposed creature. 

54 When ill dignified she denotes vagabonds, an idle, lazy, 
drunken companion given to sottishness, delighting to live 
careless or beggarly, one of no spirit or forecast, a perfect 
hater of labor, a mutable, unsettled and inconstant person. 



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55 She signifies the common people, as also queens, duch- 
esses, ladies, and all women in general, pilgrims or travel- 
lers, sailors, fishermen, and such as go long voyages by sea 
or land, barrelers, brewers, coachmen, letter carriers, milli- 
ners, messengers, bar-tenders, malsters, mid-wives, nurses, 
hackneys, charmen and water-bearers, charwomen and 
washerwomen. 



After the student has thoroughly committed to memory the descrip- 
tion of persons born under the eight planets, regardless of what signs they 
may happen to be in, and also the description of the persons born under 
a planet well dignified, or ill dignified, and also the persons, professions 
or trades signified by the various planets, he can then proceed to learn 
the description of persons indicated by the planets in each of the 12 
signs of the Zodiac, and it would be advisable to learn by heart as many 
of these descriptions as possible. Even if he could commit to memory 
the whole, it would be best to do so, similar to his learning any latin 
lesson, or rules in the English grammar, but any way he should be able 
to remember what might be termed certain landmarks, of persons de- 
scribed by the planets in particular signs. For instance, he should 
commit to memory the description of persons indicated by the planet 
Venus in the sign Libra ; of Jupiter in the sign Sagittary ; of Saturn in 
the sign Aquarius : of the Sun in the sign Leo: of Mercury in the 
sign Virgo, and so on. These will serve as guide-posts or landmarks, 
for most of the planets in the different signs. 

Astrology is a science and also an art ; we might compare it to music. 
A person studying mnsic may know all the notes and may be able to give 
expression to any of them at any moment on any instrument or by the 
voice, but the musician is known or appreciated chiefly by his skill in 
associating these various notes together, to K produce tunes or harmony, 
and the more successful he is in that respect, the better musician he is. 
It is the same in the practice of Astrology, the more successful an Astrol- 
oger is in delineating the personal description, and also the mental quali- 
ties, temper and the various traits or characteristics of the persons and 
their liking or inclination to any particular science, trade or profession, 
the more successful does the Astrologer become, and the better he becomes 
known as a person qualified for his profession. It is astonishing how 
skillful the Astrologer can become in describing persons both bodily, 
mentally, and physically, by the planets in the different signs, by constant 
trial and long practice : particularly if the Astrologer has a special gift 
in acquiring a knowledge of that science, similar to a person having a 
particular gift for learning music, painting, etc. 



The following is a description of persons born under the eight plan- 
ets, in each sign of the Zodiac, and which the student ought to commit 
to memory if possible. 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. IO5 

HERSCHEL IN THE TWELVE SIGNS. 

We can generally recognize a ¥ person by their unsettled eyes, 
which are often hazel, and cannot look at any one object long ; they are 
generally above the middle height, sometimes very tall; they are but 
seldom stout. They are always fond of discoveries and inventions, and 
the occult. ¥ makes more old maids and old bachelors than all the 
other planets put together, especially if it is in the ascendant. 

¥inf 

56 Rather tall stature, lean, and well made, light hair, 
hazel or grey eyes, ruddy or sun-burned complexion : strong- 
constitution, ambitious, and quick in anger. 

¥ in » 

57 Short, thick-set person, dark hair and eyes, deep-set; 
rather fleshy, muddy or swarthy complexion, short neck; 
passionate, boasting, and revengeful ; a person to be avoided, 
conceited and luxurious. 

¥ in n 

58 Produces a tall, thin stature; brown hair, and grey 
eyes, well made, quick step, active and nimble; fond of 
science, of a rather good disposition, eccentric in behavior, 
generous and inventive. 

¥ in 33 

59 Produces a short, thick-set, corpulent body, pale com- 
plexion, brown hair and grey eyes ; conceited, bigoted, fond 
of drink, violent, eccentric, and ungovernable. 

¥ in a 

60 Makes a full-sized stature, broad, strong shoulders, 
light brown hair, and sandy beard; firm walk. In dis- 
position, generous and free; eccentric, fond of military 
display, rather proud, and self-conceited. 

¥ in TTH 

61 A short stature, dark hair and eyes, lean body, small 
limbs; of an eccentric turn of mind, fond of curiosities and 
novelties, studious, scientific but mean and close in worldly 
affairs. 

¥ in - 

62 Produces a full stature, well-made body, oval face, 
light hair, and sanguine complexion ; of a scientific, ambitious 
turn of mind, soon angered, and eccentric in behavior. 

¥ in m 

63 Short and thick-set body, broad shoulders and often ill- 
made; dark, swarthy complexion, dark or black hair and 



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eyes, a malicious, deceitful, cunning person, given to drink 
and pleaures, and a most despicable person when I£ is afflicted 
in this sign by an evil aspect of ^ or $ . 

¥ in t 

64 Describes a person of tall stature, light hair and eyes, 
lofty forehead, good complexion. In disposition generous 
and free, fond of all sports, and enthusiastic. 

¥ in Y3 

65 Denotes one below the middle stature, well-made, 
short neck, high forehead, dark hair and eyes ; proud, austere, 
and conceited, and possessing but few laudable proclivities. 

W in W 

66 Produces a person above the middle stature, brown hair 
and eyes, well-made, and handsome broad face; very in- 
genious, fond of science and novelties, eccentric, and of good 
disposition. 

¥inX 

67 Medium stature, sickly, light or pale complexion, dark 
hair and eyes, ill-made hands or feet, bad walk ; in dispo- 
sition sottish and dull, dejected and despised. 

SATURN IN THE TWELVE SIGNS. 

A ^> person can generally be recognized, no matter what sign of the 
Zodiac it may chance to be in, by his thoughtful and studious appearance ; 
he is generally careful and saving, and has a down look when walking ; he 
is but seldom lively or cheerful, or inclined to pleasure, and he is more 
inclined to be slender than stout. T ? generally gives bad teeth, and in X 
they are discolored and rotten. 

T t > in T 

68 Gives a ruddy complexion, a spare, raw-boned person, 
full face, often dark hair, not much beard, addicted to boast- 
ing, resolute, quarrelsome and very ill natured. 

T «> in « 

69 Gives a person in no wise comely, but a heavy, clumsy, 
awkward appearance, dark hair, middle stature, not well 
made, rough in carriage, sordid, vicious, etc. 

T <> in n 

70 Represents a person of rather tall stature, dark, san- 
guine complexion, oval visage, dark brown or black hair, 
ingenious but unpolished, perverse and generally unfortunate 
in most of his undertakings. 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. IO7 

^ in © 
7 1 Denotes a person of middle stature, rather short than 
tall, sickly and feeble, meagre face, dark hair, languid eyes, 
the body sometimes crooked ; jealous, malicious and deceit- 
ful in his dealings. 

^ in a 
7 2 Gives a person of moderate large stature, broad, round 
shoulders, wide chest, lightish hair, large boned, surly 
aspect, eyes sunk, apt to stoop. Qualities tolerably good, 
generous but passionate, not over valiant or courageous when 
put to the test. 

T 2 in M 

73 Represents a person of a tall, spare body, swarthy com- 
plexion, dark or black hair, and that plentiful ; a long head, 
solid countenance, generally unfortunate, inclined to melan- 
choly, retaining anger, a projector of curious matters to 
little purpose, studious, subtle, reserved, inclined to pilfering 
and indirect dealings. 

^ in =£= 

74 Describes a person above the middle stature, soft 
brown hair, oval face, large nose and forehead, clear com- 
plexion, one opinionated of himself, prodigal of expense. 
They are given to debate and controversy and seldom leave 
any wealth at their death. 

^ in HI 

75 Represents a person of a mean stature, stout, thick- 
trussed body, broad shoulders, black or dark hair, which is 
usually short and thick ; quarrelsome, mischievous, one who 
will undertake violent and dangerous actions, though often 
to his own detriment. 

^ in ^ 

76 Gives a large body, brown hair, good make, tolerable 
complexion, obliging disposition, not covetous, moderately 
frugal, rarely profuse, but somewhat choleric. One who will 
not bear an affront yet willing to do good to all ; a lover of 
his friends and merciful to an enemy 

t? in V3 
7 7 Personates a lean, raw-boned body, dark or black hair, 
middle stature, dark complexion, small, leering eyes, long 
visage, and a stooping, awkward posture in walking. One 
who is peevish, discontented, melancholy, covetous, of few 
words, fearful, retains anger, and is of great gravity. 



lo8 ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 

T 2 in £ff 

78 Gives a reasonable full-bodied person, a large head 
and face, rather inclined to corpulency, middle stature, sad 
brown hair, a clear complexion, sober, graceful deportment, 
affable, courteous disposition; of an excellent, searching 
fancy, and generally very proficient in what they under- 
take in arts and sciences ; a person of a pregnant genius, yet 
liable to be conceited. 

^ in ^ 

79 Describes a middle-statured person, pale complexion, 
sad or dark brown hair, a large head and full eye, sometimes 
the teeth are distorted ; a person not very comely ; active to 
do mischief, malicious and given to contention and dissimu- 
lation; an uncertain, fickle person in everything, though 
often presenting a good outside, yet fraudulent and deceitful 
in the end. They are not talkative but deliberate, and do 
evil with malice aforethought. They are said to improve as 
they grow older. 

JUPITER IN THE TWELVE SIGNS. 

Jupiter persons are generally known by having a straight walk, but not 
really proud, like a $ person ; they are above the medium height, in- 
clined to be full built, and often stout ; they are known by having an 
oval face, high forehead, and hair receding from the temples, and some- 
times they become bald before middle age ; they are often persons of 
great ambition, and like to rule others ; they make poor servants. 

Jupiter usually gives good teeth, and frequently an apparent mark in the 
front teeth. In an airy sign, he gives broad front teeth ; in a fiery sign, 
crooked ; in earthy they are discolored ; and in a watery sign, the teeth 
decay suddenly, and grow black and rotten, especially if he be in tf 
with £3 , or in any evil aspect of J 2 or $ . If he be in a watery sign, 
in D or § to £ , the party has some defect in his delivery or speech. 
Jupiter in an airy sign, the body is more strongly built and corpulent ; in a 
fiery sign more square and strong ; in an earthy, a well composed body, 
and in a watery, more fat and often comely. 

U in T 

80 Describes a middle stature, but not stout, rather lean 
than corpulent, a quick penetrating eye, high nose, oval vis- 
age, generally with pimples or a peculiar redness in the face. 
They are of a free, noble, generous disposition, very oblig- 
ing, polite and complacent, especially to their friends. 

K in 8 

81 Gives a middle stature, stout, well-set body, but 
though compact not handsome; hair brown, rough and curl- 
ing, complexion swarthy, and frequently the skin looks 
shiny and oily. The disposition reasonably good, judgment 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 1 OQ 

sound, deportment good, behavior free and charitable, fond 
of the female sex, and very humane and compassionate to 
the distressed. 

U in n 

82 Represents a well-made, compact body, plump, yet 
above the middle stature, sanguine complexion, though 
rather dusky, brown hair and full expressive eyes, the 
deportment graceful, affable, courteous, gentle, mild, oblig- 
ing and good-natured. An admirer of the female sex and a 
lover of learning. But if 21 be near Occulus Taurus in n 
6° 47' with 2 34' south lat., he will be addicted to women. 
And if near Aldebaran in n 8° 7' with 5 28' south lat., he 
will be rash and unstable, inimical to himself and disagreea- 
ble to others. If with the bull's north horn in n 2d 54' 
with 5 22' north lat., he will be rash and violent. 

% in ® 

83 Gives a person of middle stature, a pale, sickly s 
unwholesome complexion, oval face, hair dark brown, b 
rather plump but disproportioned. A busy, talka 
character, very conceited and apt to intermeddle with c 
people's concerns. A lover of women and fond of the ^ 
whereon he is usually fortunate. Unless Mars throws a, 
good aspect to Jupiter he is not courageous. 

U in a 

84 Represents a strong and well-proportioned tall body, 
the hair is light or yellowish brown and curling ; complexion 
ruddy, eye full and fiery ; person rather handsome. The dis- 
position is noble-minded, courageous and magnanimous, but 
lofty and proud and ambitious, one who delights in warlike 
actions, is a terror to his enemies, and who scorns to bend to 
them ; fond of contending for honors, etc. , and full of daring 
and enterprise. 

U inTUZ 

85 Gives a person of a reasonable full stature, well built, 
and what may be termed handsome ; sad brown or black hair, 
ruddy complexion, but not clear or fair. One who is choleric 
and given to boasting, studious, yet covetous, and by his 
rashness often meeting serious losses; he is not easily 
imposed or wrought upon by any person. 

% in =£= 

86 Renders the body complete and elegant, a handsome 
form, and Invi £ face, upright, tall stature, rather slender, 
"clear com 1 "' full eye, oval face, light brown hair, sub- 
ject to I or a rash in the face. Disposition and 



1IO ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 

temper mild ; behavior winning and obliging" to all, partial 
to exercise and recreation ; much esteemed and honored. 

. U in m 

87 Gives a middle stature, stout compact body, coarse 
hair, fleshy and full face, muddy or dull complexion. Man- 
ners proud and lofty, one who is ambitious, and desires to 
bear rule over his equals ; resolute and covetous, ill natured 
and selfish, very subtle and crafty, therefore to be very warily 
dealth with. 

U in f 

88 Gives a fine, tall, upright body, good form and make, 
oval face, ruddy complexion, brown chestnut colored hair, 
full beard and whiskers, but the hair falls off early in life, 
especially about the temples, a good eye, and much expres- 
sion in the face. The mind is just and noble, disposition 
courageous, humane, affable and agreeable; manners polite 
and accomplished. One fond of horses and hunting. 

- U in VS 

89 Descrides a small stature, pale complexion, thin face, 
little head, not much beard, weakly person, dark brown hair, 
said to be darker than the beard. The mind is ingenious, 
but peevish, inactive, helpless and indolent. 

U in £7 

90 Personates a middle stature, well set, brown hair, clear 
complexion, rather corpulent, compact make, and of a cheer- 
ful, obliging disposition, hurtful to none; well conducted, 
and moderate in recreation ; just and merciful, good humored, 
industrious, communicative, inclined to be scientific, and but 
little inclined to extravagance. 

2i in X 

91 Describes a person of middle stature, obscure complex- 
ion, plump, fleshy body, lightish brown hair. Disposition 
harmless, studious, and possessed of excellent talents and 
good acquirements; friendly, kind, and inoffensive. They 
delight in good company, and to be upon the water, 
where if J) throw not an evil aspect to 2£, they are very 
fortunate. 

MARS IN THE TWELVE SIGNS. 

A Mars person is generally known by having either red, or auburn, or 
yellowish hair, but sometimes he has black hair, and if a man, his mus- 
tache is generally lighter than his hair ; has a proud, military walk, fond 
of dress and decoration, and often a boaster, or blows his own trumpet ; 
he easily gets into quarrels or fights, but generally comes off conqueror; 
he speaks quick and is generally very decisive in his language and actions. 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. . Ill 

If $ be in rf , □ or g of Saturn, or with £5, the disposition is 
very evil, especially if they be in angles, then the person he describes 
is very fierce and violent. He is the giver of courage and resolution, 
but if $ be weak and afflicted he is very deficient. If Mars be in fiery 
signs, he is hasty and choleric, and there is generally observed to be a 
falling in of the cheeks, and a lightness of features, with an angry look ; 
in earthy signs, a sullen dogged temper ; in airy signs, more free and 
obliging ; in watery, sottish dull and stupid, unless Mars be well aspected 
by Jupiter, .Sun or Moon. 

$ in T 

92 Represents a person of middle stature, well set, large 
boned; swarthy complexion, light hair, and curling, fre- 
quently red; austere countenance, and, if £ be oriental, 
ruddy, and smooth ; bold and undaunted, confident, choleric, 
and proud ; fond of war and dispute ; one who often gains 
by those means. 

$ in « 

93 Gives a middle stature, well set, rather short ; dusky 
complexion, dark or black hair, which is rough and coarse ; 
broad face, and wide mouth ; he will generally have some 
scar or other mark in the face, which is often ruddy, but 
never fair. He will be gluttonous, debauched, given to 
drinking and wenching; also a gambler, and very quarrel- 
some, treacherous, and illnatured. He is generally unfortu- 
nate, but if $ be near the Pleiades, remarkably so. 

6 in n 

94 Gives a tall person, with black or dark brown hair, 
(although if $ be in the first seven degrees of n , the terms 
of £ , it will be light, ) sanguine complexion, and well propor- 
tioned body. He is restless and unsettled, but ingenious; 
unfortunate in most things, living in a mean way, generally 
shifting here and there, leaving his debts unpaid, and exer- 
cising his wits for a livelihood ; in short, a chevalier d 'Indus- 
trie, or mere swindler. But if £ be in good aspect to O, 
li or $ it will mitigate these evil propensities. 

$ in ® 

95 Describes a short figure, and a bad complexion, with 
brown hair and not much of it ; the body is generally ill made, 
and crooked. The temper is sour and bad ; one who is given 
to sottishness, a mean servile unfortunate creature ; usually 
he is employed in some low business, being incapable of 
better. 

$ in a 

96 Shows a well proportioned body, rather tall, light 
brown hair, oval face, sanguine or sunburnt complexion, 



1 1 2 ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 

large eyes, stout limbs, and a brisk, cheerful aspect. A lover 
of women, given to boasting, fond of robust sports, as hunt- 
ing, riding, shooting, etc. , and ready for warlike occupation 
at any time. He dresses well and is a favorite with the 
ladies, but it is generally to his prejudice. 

$ in TIE. 

97 Produces a middle sized body, well made, and pro- 
portioned, black hair, or very dark brown ; the first seven 
degrees gives lighter hair than the rest of the sign, being the 
terms of Mercury, the complexion is swarthy or darkish, and 
generally some scar, mark or blemish in the face. A hasty, 
pioud, revengeful and spiteful mind; one who remembers 
an injury, is hard to please, conceited, and generally very 
unfortunate in all he undertakes. 

$ in =*= 

98 Gives a neat made, rather tall person; his face oval; 
complexion sanguine, and hair light brown and soft, but, if 
in the last six degrees, (his own term,) it is more wiry and 
reddish. The disposition is brisk and cheerful, but fond of 
boasting, and very conceited, one who is fond of dress, effemi- 
nate in appearance, much attached to women, by whom he is 
also much beloved and frequently ruined. 

$ in TIj, 

99 Preduces a well set form of middle stature, rather corpu- 
lent, swarthy complexion, black, curling hair, broad and 
plain face. The temper is very unsociable, and rash ; they 
are generally revengeful, ungrateful, quarrelsome and wick- 
ed ; yet of good genius and ready apprehension, excelling in 
mystery, etc. 

$ in £ 

100 Denotes a tall person, with a well proportioned body, 
compact, and well made, sanguine complexion, oval visage, 
a quick, penetrating eye ; the mind is cheerful, merry and 
jovial, but disposition hasty, passionate, high minded and 
lofty ; courageous, loquacious, and fond of applause : on the 
whole a good character. 

$ in Y3 

101 Represents a mean or small stature, thin, lean body, 
little head, thin face, bad complexion, being sallow and ob- 
scure; black, lank hair. An ingenious mind, witty, shrewd 
and penetrating, generally fortunate and successful in his 
undertakings. 

$ in £? 

102 Gives a well composed body, rather corpulent, and 
inclined to be tall, (though frequently not above the middle 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 1 1 3 

size), fair or clear complexion, sandy hair, a turbulent dispo- 
sition, and addicted to controversy, etc. ; not very fortunate 
in general. 

$ in X 

103 Represents a mean stature, rather short and fleshy, a 
bad complexion, far from handsome ; a debauched look, light 
brown hair, sottish and stupid ; a great lover of women, if in 
his own terms or those of Mercury, sly and artful, deceitful, 
idle and worthless, not friendly to any one. 

THE SUN IN THE TWELVE SINGS. 

A Sun person is generally known by having a particularly straight or 
proud walk, as if he was a man of great consequence. He often has a 
full face, full prominent eyes, and broad forehead ; is generally a go- 
ahead person, and wishes to show off, especially in having a fine house, 
or wanting to become a leading politician ; he has generally good health, 
or if sick, readily recovers. 

O in T 

104 Decribes a rather tall stature, strong and well made; 
a good complexion, though not very clear, light hair, flaxen 
or yellowish, and large eyes. The man is noble, valiant and 
courageous, delighting in warlike actions and enterprises ; he 
gains victory, is famous, and a terror to his enemies, etc. 

O in « 

105 Gives a short, well set, rather ugly person ; dusky com- 
plexion, brown hair, large, broad face, wide mouth and great 
nose. A confident, proud and bold man, fond of opposition, 
proud of his physical strength, and one who generally is 
victorious. 

O in n 

106 Represents a well proportioned body, above the middle 
stature, sanguine complexion, brown hair. He is affable, 
courteous and kind, not very fortunate, as he is so meek and 
mild tempered, often controlled and imposed on by others. 

O in £d 

107 Gives a mean, ill formed body, deformed in the face, 
with a very unhealthy aspect ; the hair brown. A harmless, 
cheerful person, but indolent, and not fond of employment; 
one who spends his time in sports and pastimes, dancing, etc. , 
and is greatly addicted to women. 

O in a 

108 Gives a strong, well proportioned body, and a very 
portly person, sanguine complexion, light brown or yellowish 
hair, a full face, and large staring eyes, and very prominent ; 



1)4 ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 

there is generally a mark or scar on the face. A very just, 
upright and honorable man, who scorns to do any meaness; 
punctual and faithful to friends, and magnanimous even to 
his enemies, in short a right royal disposition ; a very ambi- 
tious man, withal, fond of rule and authority, and given to 
war and dominion, conquest, etc. 

O in TQ1 

109 Makes a person inclined to be tall of stature, and slen- 
der, but very well proportioned, good complexion, dark hair, 
and much of it, but not black; the mind ingenious and cheer- 
ful, fond of honest recreation, especially agreeable at convivial 
parties, etc. 

O in =£= 

no Produces an upright, tall and slender body, full eyes, 
oval face, ruddy complexion, light hair, and frequently a rash 
or pimples in the face. The mind is honorable, and disposi- 
tion good, but the party is always unfortunate, especially in 
all matters of war or ambition. 

O in Tit 

in Gives a remarkably square built, full fleshy person, 
broad face, cloudy complexion, dun or sunburnt, brown 
hair; mind ingenious, but the temper rugged and over- 
beraing, manners disagreeable, disposition ambitious, one 
who will not admit of an equal ; they are^ fortunate upon the 
seas, or as surgeons, physicians, etc. 

O in $ 

112 Makes a tall, handsome, well proportioned body, oval 
face, sanguine complexion, or rather brown or sun burnt; 
light brown hair, but in the first eight degrees of the sign it 
is darker; one who is very lofty and proud spirited, aiming at 
great things, austere and severe, and one who performs some 
honorable exploits, and often becomes ennobled, or receives 
titles, honorary distinctions, etc. 

in V3 

113 Represents a mean stature, ill made, spare thin body, 
oval face, sickly complexion, soft brown hair, not curling, 
and if in the first six degrees of the sign, it is light brown ; 
the party is just and honorable in his principles, a tolerably 
fair temper, and gains love and friendship by his agreeable 
conversation; one who is very hasty at times, and much 
given to women. 

O in A A ^ V 

114 Describes a person of middle stature, well made, cor- 
pulent body, round, full face, clear complexion, and light 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 11J 

brown hair, (in the term of Saturn, it is dark brown),. The 
disposition tolerably good, free from malice or deceit, but 
yet vain, proud, desirous of bearing- rule and ostentatious. 

O in X 

115 Gives a stature rather short, body plump and fleshy; 
a round, full face, and indifferent complexion, light brown 
hair, in the first eight degrees of the sign it is flaxen, and 
very soft ; the party is extremely partial to female society, 
very effeminate, fond of pleasure, etc. , and though harmless 
to others, ruins himself by extravagance, debauchery, gamb- 
ing, intemperance, feasting, etc. 

VENUS IN THE TWELVE SIGNS. 

A Venus person is generally full built, near the medium height, has a 
pleasant countenance, fond of music and the fine arts ; generally has 
an oval face, round forehead, soft, expressive eyes, and a rather small 
nose j He takes delight in music, fine arts and decoration, and if a man, 
has an effeminate appearance, and is fond of female society. « 

? in T 

116 Describes a middle stature, rather tall and slender, light 
hair, (if in the term of Jupiter, dark) ; good complexion, a 
pensive aspect and usually a mark or scar in the face, (may 
be marked more or less with small pox, according as Venus 
is afflicted or not). They are generally unfortunate both 
to themselves and others, unless Venus have a ■%■ or a 
of 2£, O or J. 

? in » 

117 Gives a handsome person, though the stature is not 
great, the body is extremely well made, plump but not gross ; 
and if Venus be well aspected, they are very handsome, the 
complexion is ruddy, but not fair; generally females are 
handsome brunettes, and have much the form and figure of 
the Venus de Medicis. The hair is generally brown, and if 
Venus be in her own term, it is very soft and luxuriant ; if in 
the term of Jupiter it is a shining black. The eyes are gen- 
erally black, and very expressive ; the temper is mild and 
winning, the disposition, kind, humane, obliging, etc. They 
generally gain much respect from those with whom they con- 
verse, and are generally fortunate. 

$ in n 

118 Describes a person above the middle height, slender, 
upright, and well made. The complexion, clear and fair, 
with soft brown hair; frequently brown or hazel eyes. They 



Ii6 ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 

are good humored, loving, liberal, just and charitable, and 
rarely guilty of anything dishonorable. 

9 in £p 

119 Represents a short person, a fleshy body; round, pale 
and sickly face, with light hair, and if the Moon be with 
Venus, and they are in the ascendant, the face will be quite 
white and wan, and the hair very light colored ; but if Venus 
be in the term of Mars, the hair may be reddish, and a tinge 
of color appear in the cheeks. They generally have small 
grey or greenish eyes. The disposition is idle and dull, they 
are fond of low company, and vicious pleasures and pursuits, 
if it be a female of the poorer classes, she is a frequenter of 
spirit shops, etc. They are fickle and timid, put the best 
side outwards, and seem to be in earnest when they are not ; 
ever mutable and inconstant. 

9 in a 

t 20 Gives a person reasonably tall of stature, well composed 
body; : .ljar complexion, round face, full eyes, freckled and 
fair skin ; hair, reddish, or if in the term of Venus it may be 
flaxen. They are petulant and passionate, soon angry and 
soon pleased again: free, generous, sociable and good hu- 
mored, but rather proud and frequently indisposed, though 
not seriously. 

9 in W 

121 Shows a tall, well proportioned figure, oval face, dark 
hair, or if in her own term, sad brown, and a dusky complex- 
ion. They are ingenious, eloquent, active and clever, of an 
aspiring turn, but rarely successful in their pursuits ; gener- 
ally unfortunate. 

? in ^ 

122 Describes an upright tall, elegant person, extremely 
well made, with a genteel carriage. The face is oval and 
rather beautiful, having pleasing smiles and beautiful dim- 
ples ; but they are frequently freckled. The hair is brown 
and soft, and rather grows long than plentiful. They are 
kind, affectionate and very obliging, and generally well be- 
loved by all with whom they have any dealings. If Venus 
be in the ascendant, and there be no afflicting aspects, and 
Jupiter, cast a A from ^, the party, if a female, will be a 
perfect beauty. 

9 in m 

123 Denotes a short, stout, well set, corpulent body, broad 
face, and dusky complexion, and dark or black hair, (unless 
Venus be in the terms of Mars or her own) ; one who has noth- 
ing very pleasant in the countenance. They are envious, 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 1 1 7 

debauched and vicious ; given to contention : and if Venus be 
afflicted by Saturn or Mars to very disgraceful actions ; and 
if both Saturn and Mars, afflict and there be no assistance by 
good aspect of Sun or Jupiter, they are possesed of very 
evil propensities. 

$ in $ 

124 Represents a person rather tall than otherwise, well 
made ; clear or sanguine complexion, fair oval face, brown 
hair. They are generous, spirited, aiming at no mean things, 
rather proud and passionate, yet are generally good tempered, 
kind and inoffensive. They delight in innocent recreations, 
and are in short very obliging, fortunate persons. 

? in Y3 

125 Describes a small sized person, short stature, a pale 
face, thin and sickly; with dark hair, (but if Venus be in her 
own term, sad brown). They are generally persons who love 
their belly, fond of enjoyment; not fortunate, subject to 
sudden changes in life and strange catastrophes. 

? in £? 

126 Gives a handsome well formed person, clear complex- 
ion, rather corpulent or large body ; brown hair, if she be in 
her own term, flaxen. A good disposition, quiet and affable, 
courteous, not at all inclined to vicious actions, peaceable, 
obliging to all : fortunate in his affairs and respected by his 
friends and acquaintance in general. 

? in X 

127 Personates a middle stature, a fleshy plump body, a 
round, full face, with a dimple in the chin, good complexion, 
between pale and ruddy. Good humored, just, kind, mild 
and peaceable ; ingenious, but somewhat unstable, yet mod- 
erately fortunate in the world. 

MERCURY IN THE TWELVE SIGNS. 

A Mercury person is inclined to be slim, often above the medium neight, 
active, talkative, fond of learning and studying; he generally makes a 
good orator, editor or author, and often has some light occupation, such 
as being a book-keeper, or being a clerk in a store ; has generally a thin 
face, high forehead, sharp nose, dark hair, and rather dark complexion. 
These remarks are only intended for persons described by £ when it 
has no aspect to any other planet, but when in aspect to other planets, 
it takes more of the nature of those planets that it is in aspect to, and 
the person has to be dsscribed accordingly. 



11° ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGV. 

$ in T 

128 Gives a mean stature, spare and thin body, oval face, 
light brown and curling- hair, dull complexion. A mind 
rather ill disposed ; addicted to dispute, to lie, steal and many 
tricks, and unworthy actions ; in short, a mere knave. 

3 in » 

129 Gives a middle sized, corpulent, thick person, strong 
and well set; swarthy and sun burnt complexion, dark, short 
and thick hair. He is idle, slothful ; one who loves ease and 
gluttony, and who ruins himself among the female sex. 

$ in n 

130 Shows a straight, upright, tall body, well formed; 
brown hair, good complexion, and a very intelligent look. 
An ingenious, pregnant fancy, a good orator, a cunning law- 
yer, or a clever book-seller: one who perfectly understands 
his own interest, and (if Mercury be not afflicted) one who is 
a subtle politician, not easily deluded by the most cunning 
knave he may encounter. 

$ in £3 

131 Personates a low, short stature, an ill complexion, a 
thin, sharp face, small eyes, sharp nose, dark hair; one who 
is given to drink, light fingered, ill natured, dishonest, and 
very deceitful and changeable ; a very mean little wretch, 
if Mercury be afflicted. 

3 in a 

132 Gives a full, large body, and good stature, dull, swar- 
thy sunburnt complexion ; light brown hair, round face, full 
eyes, a broad or high nose. A hasty, proud, conceited, am- 
bitious, boasting, contentious and troublesome character. 

£ in TTQ. 

133 Denotes a tall, slender, well proportioned person; 
dark brown hair, (or if Mercury be in the terms of Jupiter or 
Saturn, black hair) ; not a very clear complexion, a long vis- 
age, and austere countenace. A very witty, ingenious, tal- 
ented mind, and if Mercury be free from affliction, a profound 
scholar or linguist and capable of any undertaking which 
requires great ability. 

£ in =£= 

134 Personates a tall body, well made, but not thin; light 
brown, smooth hair, a ruddy or sanguine complexion. A 
just, virtuous, prudent man, a lover and promoter of learn- 
ing, and having great natural abilities and many acquired 
accomplishments. 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. II9 

Q in TT[ 

135 Gives a short or low stature, full and stout built, but 
ill made body, broad shoulders, swarthy dark complexion, 
brown curling hair. Not any way elegant or pleasing, yet 
ingenious and studious, very careful of his own interest, fond 
of the female sex, and partial to company and merry making. 

g in # 

136 Denotes a person of tall stature, well formed, not cor- 
pulent, but rather large boned and spare; an oval face, a 
large nose, and a ruddy complexion. A man who is hasty 
but soon reconciled, rash in many things to his own injury, 
yet well disposed, striving after honorable things, but seldom 
attaining them, not very fortunate. 

S in V3 

137 Gives a mean or small stature, often crooked or ill 
made and bow-legged ; a thin face and figure, dusky com- 
plexion, and brown hair. A very peevish, discontent d, de- 
jected, sickly feeble person, yet active ; one who is unfortu- 
nate to himself, and disagreeable to others, owing to his 
suspicious nature, and ill temper. 

S in $? 

138 Shows a person of middle height, rather fleshy and 
corpulent ; a good complexion, and clear skin, with brown 
hair, and full face. An ingenious, obliging character, inclined 
to study, fond of arts and sciences, very inventive, and 
remarkable for his talent, as well as being a humane, kind, 
charitable person. 

S in X 

139 Gives a short, dumpy figure, though if in his own 
term or that of Saturn, rather thin, pale face, brown 
hair, sickly look, and very hairy body. A very peevish, re- 
pining, foppish person, addicted to wine and women, very 
effeminate and contemptible. 

THE MOON IN THE TWELVE SIGNS. 

Persons described by the Moon are inclined to be full built or stout, 
rather phlegmatic, are generally slow in motions, and do not care for 
active business, they like to take things easy, and if a female, she is 
generally indolent or slovenly ; they are more likely to be light 
complexioned than dark. The above remarks are intended for Moon 
persons, when that planet is not in aspect to any other planet. 

)inf 

140 Describes a person of indifferent stature, rather fleshy, 
or plump round face, tolerably good complexion ; light brown 



120 ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 

or flaxen hair. The mind is rash, angry, ambitious and 
aspiring, often changing, and he undergoes, various muta- 
tions in life, and is seldom fortunate. 

J in 8 

141 Gives a strong, corpulent, well set body, rather short; 
rather good complexion, dark brown or black hair, A gentle, 
obliging, kind, sober, just and honest man ; one who gains 
esteem, is much respected, and attains perferment according 
to his station in life. 

J in n 

142 Describes a tall, well formed, upright, comely person; 
brown hair, good complexion, between pale and sanguine. 
The mind is ingenious, yet crafty and subtle to excess, not 
of the best disposition, nor very fortunate, unless other good 
testimonies by aspects of Jupiter, Sun or Venus concur or 
corroborate. 

J) in © 

143 Represents a middle stature, well proportioned and 
fleshy person, a round, full face, pale and dusky complexion, 
sad brown hair. The mind is flexible, given to change ; a 
merry, easy, pleasant, disposition very harmless and peace- 
able, fond of good company; one who is generally well 
beloved and fortunate in most affairs ; unsteady but free from 
passion or rash actions. 

$ in Si 

144 Denotes a person above the middle size, well propor- 
tioned, strong and large boned, sanguine complexion, light 
brown hair, large and prominant eyes and full face. A lofty, 
proud, aspiring person, very ambitious and desirous to bear 
rule, one who abhors servitude, or dependence, and is gener- 
ally unfortunate. 

J) in M 

145 Describes a rather tall person, dark brown hair, oval 
face, rather ruddy but tolerably clear complexion. An in- 
genious, reserved, covetous, melancholy, unfortunate person, 
not in general very well disposed, and one who seldom per- 
forms any very commendable actions. 

J in =&= 

146 Gives a tall, well composed body, with smooth, light 
brown hair; handsome and pleasant, cheerful countenance, 
fine red and white complexion. They are merry, jocund and 
pleasant, and much admired by the female sex; very fond of 
amusements ; and if a female she is courted by numbers, yet 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 12 1 

may be unfortunate, unless Venus the dispositor be very 
strong and well aspected, etc. 

J) in m 

147 Denotes a thick, short and ill shaped person, rather 
fleshy ; of an obscure complexion, dark hair, often black, es- 
pecially if Moon be in the term of Jupiter or Saturn. They 
are sottish and vulgar, malicious, brutish and treacherous, and 
if it be a female she is generally infamous in her desires, and 
if Moon be afflicted by the □ or g of Saturn or Mars, she is 
openly scandalous. 

y in * 

148 Represents a handsome, and well proportioned, rather 
tall person ; oval face, sanguine complexion, rather bronzed 
and bright brown or shining chestnut hair. The disposition 
is good, open and generous, but hasty and passionate, yet 
forgiving; one who aims at great things, is fortunate and 
much respected by those with whom he associates. 

J) in V3 

1 49 Gives a person of low stature, a thin, small, weak body, 
bad health and feeble, especially about the knees; small 
features, black hair and dull complexion; one who is inac- 
tive, dull not ingenious, generally very debauched in his 
conduct, and held in low esteem by his companions, etc. 

J) in a? 

150 Represents a middle sized person, well made, and 
rather corpulent ; brown hair, clear skin and sanguine com- 
plexion. They are ingenious, affable, courteous and inoffen- 
sive ; a lover of curious and scientific studies, having much 
invention, and a person rarely guilty of unworthy actions. 

} in X 

151 Describes a person of a mean or low stature, but plump 
or fat ; pale and bloated face, light brown hair and sleepy , 
eyes ; one not inclined to action, unless of the worse kind ; 
unfortunate both to himself and others, given to drink. 

N. B. — If Moon be well aspected, and in a good house, the 
disposition is much improved. 

After the student has become well acquainted with each of the planets 
in the twelve signs of the Zodiac, he will then have to learn the conjunc- 
tions and aspects of the planets. This part of Astrology becomes much 
more complicated than that which he has already learned, as in each 
case, he has two or more factors to deal with, and these factors are 
liable to changes or variations, and it is sometimes very difficult to tell 
which planet has the predominating influence; there are no special rules 
for him to be guided by, and which are not liable to changes. This 
part of Astrology can only be learned by constant practice and experience 
in investigating horoscopes and horary astrology. 



122 ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 

THE EFFECTS OF THE CONJUNCTIONS OF 
URANUS WITH THE SEVEN PLANETS. 

}$ is never the only significator in a nativity or in horary Astrology. 
There is no question but that ^ is lord of both Y3 and fiff. Nearly 
one hundred years ago, when T$ was discovered by William Herschel, 
a number of Astrologers in England and other parts of the world, allotted 
V3 for J$'s signs, and let ^> only have the sign £Z for its sign. But 
afterwards the Astrologers changed it about and gave TflL the sign £?, and 
*> the sign V3. 

The ancients have allotted both V3 and <CC? to ^ , as their ruling 
planet; and as "*? has been recognized as lord of those two signs, and it 
has been proved by the experience of thousands of years, that they are 
the signs that T <> rules, it is not advisable to be re-arranging the signs 
and planets, every time a new planet is discovered. 

There is no doubt but that J§- has a great influence in the sign £?, 
especially when that sign is on the ascendant or loth house, or 1$ is in 
that sign, or in aspect to it; also 1$ has great influence in the sign TT[. 
As remarkable events takes place when ]Jt is transiting that sign. These 
two signs and n are the only signs that W has much influence in or 
while transiting them, that I have been able to observe. I will speak 
further on this subject in the latter part of this volume. 

W d ^ 

152 If ]$ is in d with ^ , especially in the sign °p or in the 
ascendant, it causes a disfigurement or deformity of the face. 
The parties are also very liable to accidents or narrow escapes, 
especially if J# is afflicted by an evil aspect in the midheaven. 
J^L d T 2 in any sign causes the native to be liable to many mis- 
fortunes or accidents, especially if they are in angles ; every 
seven years brings some misfortune or calamity. 

If ^ be significator, it makes the person very fond of in- 
ventions and discoveries, especially connected with large 
constructions, such as engines, bridges or large buildings, 
and it is more than likely that he will make some great inven- 
tion or discovery by which he will accumulate a large fortune. 
The native may spend his whole life in establishing some 
new society or new religion, and is willing to undergo much 
persecution to accomplish that object; as in the case of 
William Q. Judge trying to establish Theosophy. He had 
the O d T j and ]£, all in the sign °p in the ascendant, in his 
horoscope. 

¥ d K 

153 If Jg. be in d w ^ tn ^ m an 7 prominent position in a 
horoscope, either the ascendant, midheaven, nth or 7th house, 
the native will gain by unlooked for events or legacies, and may 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 123 

become rich by means of wealthy friends, or by associating 
with prominent people, such as governors, etc. He will have 
great magnetism in controlling others ; will be fond of new 
discoveries or inventions of all kinds, and is certain to be a 
leader of society, or be in some way prominent. 

If % be significator, he meets with much treachery and 
deceit from false friends or secrect enemies, especially from 
the wealthy, the clergy and lawyers, and is likely to suffer 
through his efforts in getting up some new religion, whic'i 
will clash with Orthodoxy and Old Fogyism. Madam H. P. 
Blavatsky had JJT d % in the midheaven, and both in oppo- 
sition to $ in the 4th house in her horoscope, although she 
was born under the planet £ in the sign © in d with the ©. 

¥ d 3 

154 If W be in d with S in °p, it makes the native hot- 
headed, malicious and blood-thirsty, and inclines him to com- 
mit some criminal act during some part of his life, by which 
he suffers imprisonment or death. If J$ is in d with £ in 
any other sign, it makes him willful, stubborn, and often 
vindictive, especially in the ascendant or midheaven or 7th 
house ; but at the same time he will be a person of good 
abilities, given to daring deeds, often liable to accidents, 
misfortune and injuries. 

If $ be significator, he will be very fond of inventions and 
discoveries, and make a good carpenter or builder, but will 
often be unsettled, and not remain long in one place, yet he 
may be a good machinist, and make a reputation connected 
with fire-arms, sharp instruments and inventions that other 
people never thought of. 

W d O 

155 If 1# be in the ascendant or midheaven, in d with the 
O, it makes the person very ambitious and persevering, and 
willing to suffer much to carry out any special hobby ; he 
wants to be a governor or manager, or hold some high 
position. 

If O be significator, he will be a person of great ability, 
fond of deep study and inventions, w T ill take great delight in 
the occult and mysterious; and will care but little for women 
or female society ; his ambition is to get up some new form of 
government, etc. 

¥ d ? 

156 If 3p is in d with ? in the ascendant, midheaven, or 
7th house, it makes the party indifferent to females, eccentric 
and odd in dress and manners, and care but little for fashion ; 



1 24 ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 

he will be fond of the odd or curious, and if an artist, will 
draw pictures, showing- the oddities of human nature ; will 
care but little for money, and liable to meet with heavy 
losses and disappointments. 

If $ be significator, the native receives benefits from very 
wealthy or prominent persons, and if she be strong in tf =£= or 
^T, he is likely to make some great invention or discovery 
that will immortalize his name, and cause him to become 
famous and prominent, especially if these planets be in the 
ascendant, 9th, 10th or nth houses. 

¥ d a 

157 If this aspect occurs in the midheaven or ascendant, 
especially in the signs n TTH =£= or $? y it makes the native a 
great scholar, very .fond of studying the occult sciences, 
especially such as Mesmerism and Astrology, and is likely to 
become prominent as a writer on those subjects. 

If the d occurs in °p ® Til or Y3, the native is likely to be 
given to making frivolous discoveries or inventions, such as 
perpetual motion, etc. , and waste his time on useless subjects 
that will bring him but little profit. It would also make him 
addicted to speculation and games of chance. 

If £ be significator, and it occurs in movable signs °p 23 =2= 
or\{3, he is very unsettled, discontented, and dissatisfied with 
almost everything, and very probable that he will travel in 
foreign parts. If the d occurs in n TTU =£= or /$?, he is likely 
to be talented, and a great investigator of occult sciences ; 
also, it makes him liable to accidents or narrow escapes of 
being killed, or unlooked for events, and at times very serious 
misfortunes. 

¥ d 3 

158 This (/ in a man's horoscope often makes him an old 
bachelor, and if he does marry, he very seldom marries to 
advantage, and generally leads an unhappy life, or they 
separate, especially if the d occurs in the ascendant, mid- 
heaven or 7th house. Is very likely to travel a great deal, 
especially on water, yet if J and J# be strong in a good 
house, he may at times become very prominent and wealthy, 
but great danger of poverty overtaking him again. In a 
female's horoscope, they are apt to never marry ; be cranky, 
or have odd ways, and not care for fashions. 

If the J) be significator, the native is liable to travel a 
great deal, will be like a rolling stone, and even if married, 
will change his residence a number of times. The native is 
fond of studying occult sciences ; has a great liking for spirit- 
ualism, and everything connected with the mysterious. They 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 12$ 

are very seldom practical people, and often live unhappy 
married lives. They have queer, odd ways, and few people 
get along well with them. If married, either male or female, 
they are very likely to separate. A male cares very little 
for women, and a female is happier being an old maid, than 
being married and having a family. 

"? d K 

159 If *> be significator, he gives the native inheritance 
of estates, and profit by means of agriculture ; his disposition 
is extremely moral and grave ; he may gain a fortune by 
merchandise, or possibly by preaching. 

160 If 2C be significator, the disposition is not so good. 
The native seldom meets with much success in the world. 
He is very niggardly, and generally acquires property by 
some selfish and unusual means, though he seldom enjoys it 
like other persons. He generally lives hated by every one 
for his mean and deceitful ways, and dies in obscurity. 

161 If $ be in square to the significator, and in aspect 
with Mercury, he is generally duped of his property, and 
dies a miserable death. 

^ d $ 

162 If r 2 be significator, the native is of a rash, turbulent 
disposition, and generally very unfortunate; very often 
engaged in some public calling of the lowest order, and 
frequently ends his days in prison. 

163 If $ be significator, the disposition is equally bad, but 
not quite so rash, being more sly and cowardly. Sometimes 
he gains favor from elderly persons, who assist him with their 
property, which he generally loses in the end, and becomes 
very unfortunate, especially if the significators be under the 
earth. 

\d o 

164 If born under ^ , it signifies losses to the native by 
fire (especially if they be in a firey sign), or by "men in power, 
who persecute him, and confine him within the walls of a 
prison for contempt of the law; and he is seldom healthy or 
of long life. 

165 If O be significator, the native is generally very dis- 
agreeable, deceitful, mistrustful and unfortunate, always 
losing his property by some speculation, which, in the end, 
often , brings him to ruin, particularly if the native has 
anything to do with the government or persons connected 
with the state. 



126 ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 

^ d ? 

1 66 Shows gain to the native, if signified by ^ , by means 
of ladies, and to a considerable extent, he is attached to them. 
Greatly addicted to pleasure, and very fortunate where 
females are concerned. If he is a man of property, he often 
wastes most of it by gambling or pleasure. 

167 If $ be significator, the native is very artful, sly, un- 
fortunate, destitute of friends, often disappointed of benefits 
by death, and he loses considerably by persons older than 
himself, especially if he be in trade. 

T <> d s 

168 If T ? be significator, the native is subtle and crafty, 
fond of researches into antiquity; one of much gravity and 
considerable learning, though not always of the most agree- 
able personal manners. 

169 If g be significator, he is dull, suspicious, mean, cow- 
ardly, calculating and covetous. Should he turn his attention 
to literature, he may gain some knowledge, although with 
great labor; and should he become an author, his writings 
may bring him into lawsuits or imprisonment. 

170 If T 2 be significator, the person is restless and unsettled 
in his purposes, and often changes his residence. He is not 
very fortunate, though he may sometimes benefit by the 
lower order of females. 

171 If J) be significator, he is poor, miserable and dejected, 
of an unpleasant and sullen disposition, extremely unfortun- 
ate, and uncommonly covetous, though possessing scarcely 
any property. With much suspicious caution, he frequently 
commits the most unaccountable errors in affairs of the 
greatest consequence ; as through excess of prudence, he is 
very likely to doubt and deliberate in the moment of action. 

U d 6 

172 If 11 be significator, the native is bold, proud, and 
ambitious ; fond of martial exploits and enterprises ; a good 
soldier or surgeon, though he may lose much by strife and 
contention, and sometimes receive wounds in quarrels. 

173 If $ be significator, he is good, pious and just. He is 
eminently successful in the law and the church, and often 
makes a fortune by those means. 



ELEMENTS Of ASTROLOGY. 127 

K d 

174 If % be significator, the native is weak, servile and 
credulous. He incurs the displeasure of men in power, by 
whom he is much oppressed, and often ruined. He has bad 
health; and is generally a vain, talkative character, indulg- 
ing in fanciful speculations about religion and other matters, 
for which he is totally unqualified. 

175 If O be significator, the power of Jupiter is so much 
destroyed by the power of the Sun, that he has but very little 
effect ; though the party will, in general, be very much given 
to leligion, which, if Jupiter, be well dignified in other 
respects, and not ill aspected will be sincere ; otherwise he is 
fanatical or hypocritical. 

u d ? 

176 If % be significator, it promises the greatest happi- 
ness. The native is highly favored by the female sex, by 
whose means he gains great advancement. He is rich, pros- 
perous, and fortunate ; very healthy, and greatly admired and 
respected. It shows great personal beauty. 

177 If $ be significator, it denotes great beauty of person 
(unless Venus be in Scorpio or Capricorn), also riches, 
honors, ecclesiastical preferment, trie person so represented 
is truly virtuous, pious, kind and beneficent to all, with the 
greatest goodness of heart, and a disposition that will 
command universal love and esteem. 

n d ■$ 

178 If 2£ be significator, it denotes a person of great learn- 
ing, a good lawyer or divine of excellent abilities and much 
information. 

179 If § be significator, he is mild, humane, religious, 
fond of literature, possessing an elegant mind, and a gentle, 
engaging disposition ; he is raised to eminence and protected 
by powerful patrons. He accumulates great riches, and is 
in general extremely fortunate. 

180 If U be significator, the person so represented is 
restless and' changeable and seldom sufficiently settled to 
procure much wealth. He is, on thfe whole, very fortunate ; 
often gains considerably by marriage, and is a general 
favorite with the fair sex. He is a great traveller, and is 
eminently successful in maritime affairs and among seamen, 
shipping, etc. 



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181 If J be signific itor, he is fortunate, in ecclesiastical 
affairs or among mercantile men, magistrates, etc. He 
obtains great wealth, though he is liable to losses, frequently 
by canting or hypocritical persons who impose upon his natural 
kindness and generosity of disposition. He nas, however, 
too much good fortune to be injured by those persons to any 
serious extent. 

& d o 

182 If ■$ be significator, the native is in danger by fire, 
lightning, or infectious fever. It has been said in this case, 
with great truth, he has the favor of kings and princes, and 
it may be their frowns too, to his utter undoing. He may rise 
hastily, but perhaps to a great precipice where he meets a 
fall. 

183 If O be significator, the native is brave, but headstrong 
and violent. He will probably attain some considerable rank 
in the army or navy; but he will be frequently wounded, >and 
most probably die in battle or be killed by some accident or 
fall, or be a victim to some contagious fever. 

$ d ? 

184 If $ be significator, the native is kind and gentle; 
upon the whole, though at times rather hasty, he is moder- 
ately fortunate, extremely fond of women, and not always 
very particular as to their respectability. 

185 If $ be significator, he is wicked and debauched, a 
companion of prostitutes, from whom he generally receives 
great injury; a drunkard, frequently brawling in taverns or 
low public nouses, though he may sometimes meet with good 
fortune, he will quickly dissipate whatever property he may 
possess in the company of the most worthless of mankind. 

$ d s 

186 If $ be significator, it represents the native as pos- 
sessed of considerable ability, a skilfull mechanic, or a good 
mathematician, one of an acute sarcastic wit. If he be in 
the army or navy, for which he is well qualified, he obtains 
great reputation for his bravery, and is distinguished still 
more for the policy of his measures. He is never very 
scrupulous as to the means he employs, and will pay but 
little respect to persons or possessions of others, when he 
can gain any advantage by sacrificing them to his own 
interest. 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 1 29 

187 If £ be significator, he makes a cheat or swindler, a 
thief, robber or treacherous miscreant, a frequenter of gam- 
bling houses, rash, furious and blood-thirsty. 

N. B. — Any evil aspect of Saturn increases these evils, and 
a good aspect of Sun, Jupiter or Venus will much diminish 
them. 

$ d $ 

188 If $ be significator, it shows one of an unsettled life 
and temper, and a favorite of females; he is frequently 
a wandering adventurer, more remarkable for the variety of 
his fortune than his success or abilities. He is likely to die 
in a strange country. 

189 If $ be significator, he is a bold, enterprising charac- 
ter; frequently in great danger of a violent death, quarrel- 
some and given to dueling, etc. He may be a good surgeon 
or soldier, and is seldom noted for much humanity. If a 
female, she is extremely likely to be seduced. 

d ? 

190 If O be significator, it denotes one of soft and effemi- 
nate manners, a pleasing address, a great admirer of the 
ladies. He is too much given to extravagance and dissipation. 

191 If $ be significator, he is of short life, unfortunate and 
oppressed, too sickly to make much exertion, very proud and 
extravagant. 

O d $ ' 

192 If O be significator, it gives some ingenuity, but not 
much sound judgment. 

193 If £ be significator, he represents a person of mean 
and shallow abilities, one addicted to fraud and deception, 
incapable of learning anything which requires memory or 
judgment, and extremely superstitious. He may succeed well 
in trade or business, but for study he is wholly unqualified. 

0rf) 

194 If O be significator, it represents a restless and change- 
able person, who aims at great things, but seldom accom- 
plishes them. 

195 If J be significator, the native is extremely unfor- 
tunate, and generally sickly and unhappy, dejected and 
oppressed by men in power. He is rash and violent, subject 
to burns and scalds, and has frequently some defect in the 
eyes; and if the tf happen near the Hyades, Pleiades or 



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Praespe, he is likely to be nearly blind. If the Moon be 
applying, he is in danger of death, especially if it happens in 
the 8th house, or Sun be lord of the 8th house ; but if Moon 
be separating, the danger is not so great. 

? d v 

196 If $ be significator, it represents one who is polite, 
mild and courteous, fond of the elegant branches of literature, 
a pleasant companion, a favorite of females, and one of an 
excellent disposition. 

197 If £ be significator, he excels in any pursuit that 
requires taste, a good painter, an excellent poet or musician ; 
of a very humane disposition, and of the most prepossessing 
appearance. 

? d 5> 

198 If $ be significator, it renders a man very mutabale 
and uncertain ; often promising, through goodness of dispo- 
sition, much more than he is capable of performing. 

— 199 If J be significator, he is of an easy, happy, disposi- 
tion, with little care beyond the enjoyment of the present 
moment; a great proficient in all elegant amusements, and 
of an easy and genteel address. 

200 If £ be significator, the native is possessed of great 
abilities, though generally very unsteady in his pursuits. He 
frequently travels in some literary capacity. 

201 If J) be significator, the effects are not very different ; 
his intellectual powers are of the first order; he is much 
attached to learning, and gains great reputation by his 
abilities. 

202 N. B. — It must be most carefully observed, whether 
thsse planets have any other familiarity at the same time, for 
should Herschell, Saturn or Mars be in square, it will make 
a most remarkable difference. Indeed, this must be scrupu- 
lously attended to in all cases, but especially when Venus, 
Mercury or Moon may be significator. 

After the student has learned well the ^ of the planets, he must also 
learn the % and A aspects. This part of Astrology is more abstruse, 
as there are not only the qualities of two or more planets, but also the 
qualities of two signs to be learned, which often makes it quite compli- 
cated and conflicting. The same remarks apply to the D or (?. 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 1 3 1 

OF THE * AND a ASPECTS OF THE 
SIGNIFICATORS. 

203 As I have stated before, I cannot conceive of any per- 
son being born entirely under the planet I£[, yet if that planet 
is in the ascendant, it has more influence over the native than 
any other planet in the first house, or even the lord of the 
ascendant. In the following- mental qualities and disposition, 
I shall only give the indications of H$ being in aspect to the 
other planets, significator or significators. 

W * or A *> 

204 This aspect makes the native inclined to be cunning 
and inquisitive, and apt to over-reach others, he is also fond 
of the occult and deep studies ; will make a good civil engineer, 
but is somewhat eccentric and reserved. 

W * or A % 

205 The native is very ambitious to become in some way 
prominent before the community; he is generous, noble- 
minded, and often successful by being appreciated and 
assisted by those strongly influenced by 21 in their horoscopes. 
He generally is striving to establish some new religion, or 
in some way to better the condition of the community, either 
socially or morally, and he sometimes does much good in 
that way ; as he is a man of extensive knowledge and influ- 
ence, and of a broad liberal mind. 

¥* or a $ 

206 Makes the native subtle, witty, highly ingenious, pene- 
trative and active. Is fond of great constructions, such as 
large buildings, machinery ; also very fond of mechanics of all 
kinds, particularly inventions. Likely to make some inven- 
tion that will cause him to become renowned, especially 
fire-arms or destructive implements. 

W * or A O 

207 Causes a person to be very domineering, has very little 
feeling for others, is inclined to go on the principle of rule or 
ruin. Yet the native is inclined to be at times generous and 
of extraordinary abilities. He will excel in the occult and 
mysterious, such as Astrology, Astronomy and Chemistry; 
is also likely to make some new discovery or invention. 



\$2 ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 

W * or A ? 

208 Makes the native very artistic, but eccentric and con- 
ceited. Has a strong- admiration for the beautiful; is also 
fond of the occult sciences, and likely to be a teacher of those 
subjects, or a writer on the same, and, if a female, may have 
very good clairvoyant powers. 

W * or A £ 

209 Causes the native to be very ingenious, studious, in- 
quisitive and an observer of human nature ; with remarkable 
talent for science. He possesses original ideas, and if £ 
and T$ are in airy signs it causes the native to be quick in 
intellectual culture, and excel as an educator, and is very 
penetrating into the mysterious or occult. 

W * or A J 

210 Causes the native to be changeable, fond of traveling, 
inclined to be wayward and eccentric, very fond of curiosities. 
Likely to take up what are called abstruse sciences, such as 
Magic, Astrology, Theosophy, etc. ; and, at the same time, 
he is a person of remarkably good intellect. 

t> * or A 21 

211 If *> be significator, it gives riches by means of 
agriculture, and the . native is of a sedate and religious 
disposition. 

212 If 21 be significator, he is extremly grave, and 
frequently gains riches by legacies or mining. 

^ * or A $ 

213 If ^ be the significator, it increases the courage of the 
person so signified, and renders him more open in his 
resentment. 

214 If $ be significator, he is prudent and cautious, 
bigoted in religion, and should other aspects befriend Mars, 
he may gain an estate. 

^ * or A O 

215 If "*? be significator, the native is generous and noble, 
though somewhat austere in his behavior. 

216 If O be significator, he is ostentatious, boastful and 
conceited ; he may be expected to gain by legacies, or to be 
successful as a farmer. 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. I33 

$ * or A ? 

217 If ^ be significator, he is prodigal and extravagant, 
wasting his money among females. 

218 If ? be significator, he is modest, shy and retired in 
his manners ; he gains the favor of elderly people, and some- 
times inherits their property. 

*> * or A g 

219 If ^ be significator, it gives ingenuity and subtlety, 
though such talents are generally employed to little purpose. 

220 If g be significator, he is very cautious and prudent, 
and is addicted to the study of arts and sciences. 

^ * or A J) 

221 If ^ be significator; the native is changeable, jealous 
and mistrustful. 

222 If J be significator, he is vain and conceited, mean in 
his actions, though without the excuse of rashness, as he 
does nothing without much deliberation. 

% * or A £ 

223 If % be significator, it gives bravery, and the spirit of 
military adventure ; he is a good soldier, surgeon or chemist. 

224 If $ be significator, he is noble, generous, and ambi- 
tious, and will rise rapidly in the army. 

U * or A <? - 

225 If % be significator, it makes one extremely fortunate 
and very noble and courageous in his disposition. 

226 If O be significator, he gains money rapidly, is always 
respected, and possesses a most excellent disposition. 

2C * or A ? 

227 If % be significator, it causes beauty, love, riches, and 
real goodness of heart ; this is the most fortunate aspect that 
can be formed. 

228 If ? be significator, the person is virtuous, aimable, of 
a noble disposition, incapable of fraud or malice. 

2£ * orA S 

229 If % be significator, it gives great learning, sound 
judgment and excellent abilities. 

230 If $ be significator, he possesses solid sense, an open 
generous disposition and real good fortune. 



4 34- ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 

U *or A J 

231 If % be significator, it makes a man very fortunate, 
beloved by females and respected by the poorer classes of 
society. 

232 If J) be significator, he is just and charitable, sincere 
in his friendships, and generous to the full extent of his 
means. 

$ * or A O 

233 If $ be significator, it gives a very noble disposition 
and great mind, it causes one to rise rapidly i 1 the army ; he 
is uncommonly successful in war, and will gain much by the 
patronage of men in power. 

234 If O be significator, it confers great bravery and a 
high spirit ; he rises to granduer by means of his courage, 
and is invincible in military talents. 

$ * or A $ 

235 If $ be significator, it causes lewdness and dissipation; 
his disposition is not radically bad, but he is extremely 
thoughtless and improvident ; he may gain by females, for 
he possesses a fascinating influence, which he never fails to 
exert to the utmost with the female sex. 

236 If $ be significator, he is handsome but proud, rash 
and inconsiderate ; and neither remarkable for prudence nor 
principle. 

$ * or a S 

237 If $ be significator, this aspect gives great acuteness, 
penetration and learning, the native, however, is crafty, 
rather hasty, and extremely confident. 

238 If £ be significator, he possesses great courage, is very 
ingenious in any mechanical trade, a good engraver or 
mathematician, and will succeed in anything that requires 
presence of mind and a quick intellect. 

If Mercury receive any aspect of Herschell, the native is 
extremely fitted to become a good astrologer, especially if 
Moon assist Mercury by % or A aspect, but a d or ^ is better 
than no aspect of J) and £ . 

$ % or A $ 

239 If $ be significator, it makes one restless and chai 
able, servile and talkative; he .. much and ree 
much assistance from fe^ile^ 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 1 3 5 

240 If J be significator, he is very passionate and change- 
able, with a high spirit and good abilities. 

O * or A J 

241 If O be significator, it confers riches and honor; the 
native is fortunate with women, and is much respected by 
the multitude. 

242 If J) be . significator, he is proud and aspiring; he is 
generally successful, but his fortune is not permanent, unless 
both Sun and Moon be in fixed signs. 

? * or A S 

243 If 2 be significator, this aspect gives ingenuity, 
subtlety and good nature. 

244 If £ be significator, the native possesses a refined and 
accomplished mind; he is neat in his person and elegant in 
his manners; a lover of music and the fine arts in general. 

? * or A J) 

245 If $ be significator, it is a very fortunate aspect, it 
shows a person who is much assisted by female friends, and 
one who, though unstable, often obtains considerable property. 

246 If J) be significator, the native is gentle, obliging, 
amiable and genteel in his manners, and is much admired by 
females; whose condition in life depends on the strength or, 
debility of Venus. 

B * or A 5 

247 If $ be significator, the person signified, is witty, 
ingenious, subtle, easily learning anything to which he 
applies, and frequently acquiring many sciences without 
assistance. He is somewhat reserved and a little melancholy, 
but from his extensive knowledge is always a useful, and 
sometimes a pleasant companion. 

248 If J) be significator, this is the most favorable aspect 
for learning or scientific speculation. 



THE EFFECTS OF THE n OR g ASPECTS 
BETWEEN THE SIGNIFICATORS. 

¥ □ or ° t> 
249 It makes the native crafty, malicious, wayward, stub- 
born, and often very eccentric, and fond of uncommon subjects 
and mysteries. If the planets be in angles or cardinal signs it 
makes him an e^*htts£0fc5$-$y&e often commences rash under- 
takings, whk.i ^ ,-h ' -d. him into "disaster, and may 



I36 ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 

land him in prison or disgrace. He will be fond of the occult, 
and may make a good clairvoyant. 

¥ □ or <? U 

250 Causes the native to be an enthusiast in reforms in poli- 
tics, religions or creeds, and is likely to often come to grief 
through them ; meets with much opposition and many crosses 
and disappointments; he is likely to be grave, serious and 
thoughtful, especially if his planet be in cardinal signs, 
angles or fixed signs ; he is also likely to meet with much 
treachery. 

Samuel J. Tilden had ¥ □ U in his horoscope, which no 
doubt caused him to be cheated out of the Presidency after 
he was elected by the people (as ¥ was in the 12th house, 
the house of secret enemies, and 2£ on the cusp of the 9th 
house, the house of law). 

¥ □ or § $ 

251 Makes the native precipitant, irregular and impulsive; 
he is eccentric, rash, daring and ambitious, and fond of the 
occult, also of electricity and chemistry. It sometimes 
causes the native to be full of hatred and destructive 
vehemence. These qualities are particularly strong if they 
occur in either the 1st, 3rd, 9th or 10th houses, or in cardinal 
or fixed signs ; they are likely to cause the native to be a great 
inventor, especially in fire-arms, or destructive implements, 
large engines or constructions of any kind. 

¥ □ or g © 

252 Causes the native to meet with many obstacles and 
difficulties ; he is also eccentric and liable to heavy losses and 
disappointments, and have opposing influences to contend 
with ; he may become famous and renowned, but it will be 
after much opposition, and after having overcome many 
obstacles and difficulties. Sometimes he becomes famous on 
account of his opposition to established creeds or religions, 
or old fogyism, and sometimes he rises by other people's 
misfortunes, especially if this aspect occurs in cardinal or 
fixed signs, or in angles. Robert G. Ingersoll has ¥ in 
his horoscope in the midheaven in close g to the O in the 
4th house in fixed signs. Jay Gould had ¥ in the midheaven 
in close □ to the O rising. Charles Dickens had ¥ in Tf[ in 
□ to the O in £? both in fixed signs. Horace Greely had ¥ 
in tf $ in the sign t\[ in the -midheaven, and both in □ to 
the O rising in the ascendant in w all in fixed signs. In my 
own horoscope ¥ is in the 7 th house in £? in □ to the O in the 
midheaven in tf , both in angles and fixed signs, which aspect 
has caused me to have many powerful and bitter enemies. 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 137 

¥ □ or g ? 

253 Causes the native to have a keen appreciation of natural 
beauty. Is apt to be jealous in love affairs, fond of the 
opposite sex, often to his own ruin. If a male, is not success- 
ful in dealing with females. Has a keen appreciation of 
grace and delicacy of form. Is very fond of the occult and 
mysterious, and may become noted as a public lecturer or 
teacher on those subjects. The natives are very liable to be 
old maids or bachelors, or if married not continue to live 
with their partners, or if they do, it is under protest. 

¥ n or £ 3 

254 The native is eccentric, imaginative, instinctive, and 
often possesses good judgment, especially if those planets be 
in airy signs, cardinal signs or in angles, but if either of them 
are in weak or watery signs, it causes the native to be 
erratic, and have but indifferent ability. Is likely to try to 
discover perpetual motion, or want to become famous as a 
rain maker; and lacks intuitive observation and instinctive 
judgment. He believes in some of the most absurd dogmas, 
and be skeptical of some of the simplest and demonstrative 
problems. He is likely to have curious notions on govern- 
ment, marriage, financial, political or domestic life, and may 
try to establish communities. 

¥ □ or g } 

255 Makes the native mutable, fond of change, often way- 
ward and impulsive ; generally becomes a wanderer, or a great 
traveller, and but seldom remains in one place or position. 
But if either of these planets be in ^ ^ or n it causes the 
native to have considerable ability, and be fond of obstruse 
sciences, and sometimes excelling in learning or discoveries, 
or receiving new ideas. If either of these planets be in 
cardinal or fixed signs, or angles, he may become prominent, 
or in some way noted on account of his odd and eccentric 
manners, and be at times almost regarded as a lunatic. Em- 
porer William II, of Germany, was born under the Moon, in 
TT[ in close g to ¥ in « both fixed signs. 

*>. □ or <? % 

256 If r 2 be significator, it shows much trouble by lawyers 
or the clergy. 

257 If 21 be significator, he is always wretched and miser- 
able, idle, unfortunate and beggarly. 

*> □ or c? $ 

258 If T} be significator, it is the aspect of cruelty and 
murder, and the person so signified, is extremely unfortunate ; 



I38 ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 

he generally lives a most dejected life, and dies a violent 
death. 

259 If 6 be significator, the person shown by him is very 
malicious, treacherous and blood-thirsty; one delighting' in 
the most evil deeds, yet very cowardly, sly and inclined to 
suicide, and secret revenge, and has a cruel disposition 

T 2 nor^G 
260 If ^ be significator, it is the aspect of infamy and 
contempt, the person is prodigal, ambitious, overbearing, 
hating control, very disagreeable in his manners, extremely 
unfortunate, subject to the frowns of persons in power, and 
often meets a violent death. 

261 If O be significator, the person is cowardly, spiteful, 
treacherous, malicious, unfeeling, covetous, repining, always 
despising anything of kindness and humanity; one who 
generally leads a life of wretchedness, and frequently meets 
with a bad end, and sometimes dies in prison. 

^ □ or <? $ 

262 If ^ be significator, it shows dissipation, and the 
person leads a most detestable life, connected with the lowest 
order of prostitutes, by whom he is eventually brought to 
ruin and disgrace. 

263 If $ be significator, the person is generally of an evil 
disposition, and not very handsome, is sly, artful, full of 
mischief, and much addicted to dissipation, though not 
suspected ; but generally unfortunate. 

T ? □ or g S 

264 If ^ be significator, it indicates a thief, cheat or 
swindler, a low, cunning fellow, sly, envious, treacherous 
and malicious ; one who is alwa}^s planning some scheme to 
deceive his most intimate friends ; generally forming a bad 
opinion of every one, and not at all particular as to speaking 
the truth. 

265 If £ be significator, the person is very artful, always 
involved in strife and contention, and much given to vilify 
the character of others, by whom he is tormented with law- 
suits; it also indicates pettifogging attorneys, who seldom act 
honestly towards their clients. 

J ? d or (? ) 

266 If ^ be significator, it shows a wandering, unsettled 
and changeable person, not of a genteel form, but one who 
is down-looking and inclined to stoop forward, always very 
fretful and appearing full of trouble, not a good disposition, 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. I39 

not to be depended on. He seldom attains any high situa- 
tion, but if he does, he soon falls into disgrace again. 

267 If J) be significator (which in some measure she always 
is of the native), the person is extremely unfortunate, always 
in trouble with the lower order of mankind, from whom he 
receives many inquiries; he is mean, cowardly and very 
dejected, is rather unhealthy, seldom living a long life, and 
generally dying a a miserable death. 

U □ or 8 $ 
?68 If % be significator, it denotes violence, ingratitute, a 
furious temper, and danger of death by malignant fevers. 

269 If $ be significator, it shows pride, ingratitude, inso- 
lence, and the hatred of the clergy on account of theological 
opinions. 

U □ or 8 

270 If 2^ be significator, it gives arrogance, prodigality and 
much vanity, with a great desire to be distinguished, which 
is but very rarely gratified. 

271 ]f be significator, the person represented wastes his 
property by riotous living and all kinds of extravagance. 

U □ or § ? 

272 It 2£ be significator, it shows extravagance, dissipation 
and all kinds of debauchery and intemperance. 

273 If ? be significator, the person has many enemies 
among the clergy and legal profession, magistrates, etc., 
and he is equally void of virtue and prudence. 

U a or 8 V 

274 If 71 be significator, it gives trouble, contention, per- 
plexities, lawsuits, and in consequence, indigence. 

275 If g be significator, the person is frequently persecuted 
for his singular religious opinions; his understanding is 
weak, and he is often involved in strife and contention. 

U a or 8 3 

276 If 2£ be significator, it shows one of many words, 
though of poor abilities; he is weak and foolish, and if in a 
public capacity, is execrated by the multitude. 

277 If J) be significator, he is injured by faithless friends 
and deceitful relatives, and his property is impoverished by 
hypocritical fanatics. 

$ □ or 8 O 

278 If $ be significator, he is a man of great ambition and 
violence, but his evil fortune will not allow him to succeed. 



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279 If O be significator, he is restrained by no principle of 
honor or gratitude, his affairs are always deranged, and he 
makes use of the most violent means to retrieve them. Such 
a one frequently becomes a footpad, murderer or house- 
breaker, and is either killed in some contest, or falls a victim 
to the laws of the country. 

$ □ or c? ? 

280 If $ be significator, these aspects cause lust, excess, 
prodigality and injury by loose women, and complete waste 
of fortune. 

281 If $ be significator, he is very treacherous, mischiev- 
ous, base and inconstant; or if it be a female, she is a 
prostitute or very shameless. 

S □ or c? 

282 If $ be significator, it shows one of some ability, but 
his talents are applied to the most dishonorable purposes. 

283 If $ be significator, it denotes a thief or assassin; one 
whose most solemn protestations are not to be believed; who 
will desert his benefactors at their utmost need ; he is violent, 
furious, contentious, and despised by every one for his 
infamous life. 

$ n or <? J 

284 If $ be significator, the native, described by him, is 
a fit companion for the lowest and most unprincipled of man- 
kind ; he is very unfortunate, and is probably a wandering 
vagabond, who travels over the earth without a friend or a 
home. 

285 If J) be significator, he is excessively abusive, mali- 
cious and treacherous. He may travel into foreign countries 
as a sailor or soldier, amidst innumerable dangers and 
hardships, and die by pestilence, dysentery, or the sword. 

O □ or <? J) 

286 If O be significator, the person suffers losses, trouble 
and much anxiety. 

287 If J) be significator, he is obstinate and quarrelsome; 
he is exceedingly ambitious and prodigal, and is sometimes 
marked in the face, or his eyes are affected; the latter is 
especially the case if the Sun be afflicted by Mars, or either 
Sun or Moon are with the nebulous stars. 

9 □ or g ) 

288 If ? be significator, it shows a changeable, unsettled 
life, great trouble in marriage, and much ill fortune. 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. I4I 

289 If J) be significator, it shows a dissolute, extravagant 
life, attended with indigence and poverty, and much trouble 
from females. 

V Dor^} 

290 If $ be significator, it no doubt gives some abilities, 
but such persons are too unsettled to apply very closely to 
any subject; they are continually shifting their situations 
(especially if Mercury be in a movable sign), nor are they 
very sincere in their professions of friendship, nor very 
scrupulous in the method by which they may attain their 
ends. 

291 If J) be significator, they have a defect in their utter- 
ance, have but little ability, except a kind of low cunning, 
which they apply to dishonest purposes. But as Mercury is 
acted on by every planet having an aspect to him, it will be 
necessary to observe each aspect and allow for its influences, 
for if Mercury or the Moon have a trine of Jupiter, the square 
of Mercury to Moon will not be near so evil, though the per- 
son will be far from sensible, notwithstanding, that they are 
tolerably honest and well-meaning. 

Observation. — The student must always remember, that 
the true character and condition of the person signified, can 
only be correctly learned by noticing all the aspects the 
significator may receive, as well as observing the nature of 
the sign and house it is in, and the degree of strength or 
weakness it possesses, as well as those planets which aspect 
it. Thus if the significator be Mars, and he receive the 
opposition of Sun, yet if Sun be weak, and Mars have also a 
trine of Jupiter, this benefic planet being strong, he may 
judge that the native will suffer by the evil influence of Sun, 
by receiving a severe wound in a duel, or in honorable war- 
fare ; whereas, if instead of the trine of Jupiter, the square 
of Mercury occurred, there would be little doubt, that he 
would be killed by police officers, or die by the hand of the 
public executioner; the latter especially, if Sun was in the 
10th house. 

PRACTICAL ASTROLOGY. 

Having in the foregoing pages given an outline of Astrology, which 
outline the reader should read over and over until he knows it by heart, 
or can repeat any passage without looking in the book similar to a min- 
ister of the Gospel, who can repeat almost any passage in the Bible 
without looking at the chapter and verse. 

After the student is able to repeat any of the foregoing rules in 
Astrology as 2£ in the sign f , or $ in the sign °f , he should then try 
to mix or combine these rules, as a painter mixes the different colors of 



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his paints until he knows the paiticular shade or tint that any two colors 
when so mixed will produce, when painting any special object or likeness ; 
so the young student of Astrology should know the effect that the various 
aspects of the planets, either good or evil will produce. He should 
also learn the different signs and the kind of persons they will describe j 
if on the ascendant or first house, and not occupied by any planet; 
also the characteristic of the planets themselves when they are in any 
sign or house, and notice whether they are angular, succeedeni 01 cadent, 
and whether the planet is weak or strong in that sign or house. 

But before the reader can make much headway in learning the various 
combinations, it will be necessary for him to learn how to erect a map 
of the heavens, nativity or horoscope, as it is at times called, for any 
particular hour and minute of either day or night and for any longitude 
or latitude on the globe. 

In order to do this he will require a table of houses for the place or 

latitude for which he wishes to set the map of the heavens ; he will also 

require an ephemeris or astrological almanac which gives the longitude, 

■latitude and declination of the Sun, Moon, and different planets referred 

to in the preceding pages, for the year he wishes to cast the horoscope. 

Raphael's Almanac and Ephemeris published in London, England, is 
considered the best. I do not know of any astrological ephemeris pub- 
lished in the United States. 

RULE TO SET A MAP OF THE HEAVENS. 

First. — Having procured the ephemeris for the year desired, then 
learn in the same ephemeris what was the right ascension of the Sun, at 
the noon previous to the required time,* in hours, minutes and seconds. 
To this right ascension add the number of hours and minutes that 
have elapsed since that noon. The sum of bo-th will he the right ascen- 
sion in time of the meridian or midheaven. Then procure a table of 
houses for the latitude of the place for which the student wishes to erect 
his map of the heavens. 

Second. — Find the longitude answering to this right ascension (or 
sidereal time) in the first column of the table of houses for the latitude 
required, and opposite in the next column he will find the number re- 
quired, and on top of page the number 10, meaning the loth house, which 
longitude is to be marked over the line on top of the blank map which 
d:notes he midheaven or 10th house, together with the sign in the 
column under the figure 10. 

Third. — In a line with this 0:1 the top of the column will be fouud 
the 11th, 12th, 1st, 2nd and 3rd houses, which he must copy on the 
same horizontal line as the 10th house, and enter over the lines which 
have thos? numbers in the blank map of the heavens and on the lines, 
which denote those respective houses. 

* In the ephemeris published of late years the right ascension of the Sun is given in the third 
column of the ephemeris headed sidereal time (or star time), and the student does not have to add 
when the clock is too slow, or subtract when too fast, according to the Sun, as he had to do in the 
old ephemeris. 



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Horoscope oj the Inauguration of Hon. William McKinley. 

Take the time President McKinley took the oath of office on March 
4th, 1897, at 1:18 P. M., Washington, D. C, for an example. 

In Raphael's Ephemeris for 1897, if the reader turns to March 4th, 
on a line with that in the next column under the heading Sidereal Time, 
he will find 22 hours, 50 minutes and 2 seconds. If he adds the 1 hour 
and 18 minutes that have elapsed since noon to that sum he will get 24:08. 
As 24 hours complete a day, he rejects the number 24, and turns to the 
table of houses for New York*, which is near the latitude of Washington, 
in the first column on first page, he will find under the Sidereal Time, 
o hours, 7 minutes and 20 seconds, and on a line with that, the figure 2 
in the column, and on the top of the column the figure 10 which means 
the 10th house, and immediately under it the sign Aries °P . 

The sigri °p and the number 2 he copies in the blank map, over 
the line marked 10. Go to the next column and find, on the top, 
11 and Taurus ( b ), which means the 1 ith house, and the sign b and on 
the line with 0-7-20 he will find the figure 8, copy the sign 8 and figure 8, 
over the line marked 1 1, in the map on page 144. And on the same line 
he will find 17 and on the top of the column 12 Gemini (il), he enters the 
sign n and 17 over the line marked 12 in the blank map. In the next 
column he finds on the top the words "Ascend," meaning the Ascendant or 
first house, and underneath the sign Cancer (®) he copies the sign <23 and 
20:22 over the line marked 1, or first house. On the next column the 
figure 10 and on the top of the column the figure 2 and the sign Leo ( St ), 
the figure 2 means second house. Copy the sign ft and figure 10 on the 
end of the line marked 2 in the blank map. In the next column he will 
find the figure 3, and top of the column 3, and under it the sign Virgo 
(TTJ2_). Copy TTQ. and number 3 at the end of the line in the blank map 
marked 3. 

These six houses are called the Eastern houses, and he copies what 
are termed the opposite signs or the six Western houses, which are the 
4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th. The student must learn what signs are 
always opposite each other. 

The Eastern and Northern signs are T, 8 , IT, ®, ft, TTE.. 

The Western and Southern signs are =a=, TT[, f , y3, aw, X. 
Therefore the student' will copy Libra (=0=) and number 2 on the line 
marked 4 in the blank map, and Scorpio (TT[) and number 8 at the 
end of the line marked 5 in the map, and Sagittary ( f ) and 
number 17 on the end of line marked 6 in the map. And Capricorn 
(V3) 20:22 on the end of line marked 7 in blank map. And Aquarius 
($?) and 10 at the end of line marked 8, and Pisces }£ and number 3 
at the end of line marked 9. 

After the signs of the Zodiac are put in their proper positions and 
the number of degrees and minutes put with each sign, so as to show 
how many degrees of that sign has ascended or descended beyond what 
is termed the cusp of any given house. Then proceed to calculate the 

* In Raphael's Ephemeris for each year, on pages 30 and 31, the student will find a "Table 
of Houses '' for Latitude 40 43' north, it being the latitude of New \ ofk City. 



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position of the planets and place them in the blank map. There is no 
Astrological Ephemeris calculated for New York or Washington ; therefore 
we have to use the Ephemeris calculated for London, England, and as 
there are five hours and eight minutes difference in time between Lon- 
don and Washington, we have to allow for that difference. Therefore 
the longitude of the planets that are calculated for twelve noon in 
London, we reckon as though they were calculated for seven o'clock in 
the morning for Washington, D. C. 




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Map of the Heavens showing the signs of the Zodiac for the time 
President McKinley was inaugurated, March 4th, 1897, l h. 18 m. P.M. 

In calculating the time for putting tne signs of the Zodiac in the 
blank map, we always reckon from twelve o'clock at noon, and add the 
hours or minutes that have elapsed since that time, to the hours and 
minutes given in the column under Sidereal time in the Ephemeris. 

But if the time is before twelve o'clock, we subtract the number of 
hours and minutes that will elapse before noon, from the Sidereal Time 
in the third column in the Ephemeris for that day. 

If we wish to set a chart of the heavens for London, England ; after 
calculating the longitude of the signs and writing them in the blank 
chart, we then add the number of degrees and minutes that a planet will 
travel from twelve o'clock noon to the hour and minute we are setting 
the chart for, to the planet's longitude marked in the column in, the 
Ephemeris for that day. But if for Washington, D. C, we add the 
number of degrees and minutes that a planet travels from seven o'clock 
in the morning to the hour and minute we set the chart of the heavens for 
to the degrees and minutes marked in the planet's longitude column in 
the Ephemeris for that day. 



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The time Mr. McKinley took the oath of office was one hour and 
eighteen minutes in the afternoon, therefore reckoning from seven o'clock 
in the mor ing, to that time is six hours and eighteen minutes. We 
have to find out how fast each of the planets and Sun and Moon 
are traveling that day, and then find how far they will travel in the 
six hours and eighteen minutes and write the degree and minute, of the 
planets in the signs in the blank chart on that day. 

In the fourth column of Raphael's Ephemeris for March 5th, 1897, 
the Sun is 15 degrees, 12 minutes and 29 seconds. And on the 4th of 
March it is 14 degrees, 12 minutes and 25 seconds. Therefore if we 
subtract one from the other we find that the Sun in a day had traveled 
one degree, no minutes and four seconds. Then the Sun will travel 
fifteen minutes in six hours, being one fourth of a day. If we add the 
fifteen minutes to 14 degrees, 12 minutes and 25 seconds, it will amount 
to 14 degrees, 27 minutes and 25 seconds. Add one minute more to 
the Sun for the extra twenty minutes in time it makes 14 degrees and 
28 minutes, dropping the seconds. In the sign Pisces, place the O 14:28 
just a little above the line marked 9 in the blank map in the sign }£. 

The student should look at the map of the heavens when he has 
placed the Sun in it, and notice from the time of day whether the Sun is 
in its right position. If it is not, then he has made some mistake in 
placing the signs of the Zodiac in the blank map, and must correct that 
mistake before he goes any further. For instance, in the chart he sets 
for noon, the Sun must be in the midheaven, near the line marked 10, 
if near sunrise, the Sun must be near the line marked 1. If near sun- 
set, must be near the line marked 7, and midnight the Sun must be near 
line marked 4. He will see the Sun is in its right position in the chart 
on page 146, at 1:18 P. M. 

In the column number 6 of Raphael's Ephemeris the student will find 
on March 4th, that the Moon is 25 degrees and 39 minutes and 19 seconds 
in the sign Pisces. Therefore, omitting the seconds, the Moon has 4 
degrees and 21 minutes to go before it is out of the sign Pisces, and on 
March 5 th, the Moon is 7 degrees and 53 minutes in the sign 
Aries. Therefore if we add 4 degrees and 21 minutes to 7 degrees and 
53 minutes, we find the Moon travels at the rate of 12 degrees and 
14 minutes in twenty-four hours. In six hours the Moon will travel 
3 degrees and 4 minutes, or one fourth of 12 degrees and 14 minutes. 
Add 3:04 to 25:39 makes in all 28:43, anc ^ a ^d ll minutes in longitude 
for the 26 minutes in time, makes altogether 28:54 m tne s *g n Pisces. 
Place the Moon 28:54 m Pi sces > just over the Sun, above the line 
marked 9. 

On the opposite page of the Ephemeris, on March 4th the planets 
Neptune, Uranus and Saturn do not travel any distance on that day, 
so enter them on the map, as they are marked in the signs in the Ephem- 
eris. Neptune ( f ) is 17:32 in Gemini (n), so place f just below the 
line marked 1 2 , and in the sign n . Enter Uranus ( J£l ) just above the line 
marked 5 in Scorpio (111), 29:03, put an R,to show that Uranus (J£T) is 
retrograde. Place Saturn ( *> ) just below the line marked 6 in the 
sign $ , 0:45. 



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The planet Jupiter (2£) is retrograding 8 minutes per day; take one 
minute from 4:06 and place 21 just below the line marked 3, 
in Virgo (TT&), 4.05 and an R, to show that that planet is retrograde. 

In the next column Mars ( ^ ) is 22:28, in n, and on the 5th day 
£ is 22:52, showing that in 24 hours £ has traveled 24 minutes in 
longitude j therefore Mars would have traveled 6 minutes or one founh 
of 24 minutes in six hours; add the six minutes to 22:28 and enter £ 
in the blank map, just below the planet Neptune, in the sign n , 22:34. 

On March 4th, Venus (?) is 29:43 in Aries (T), on the 5th it is 
0:34 in Taurus ( 8 ). Thus ? has traveled 5 1 minutes in 24 hours. 
Add 13 minutes to 29:43 and enter $ left of the line marked 10 in ihe 
sign T , 29:56. 

In the next column, Mercury ( £ ) is 22:08 on the 4th, and on the 
5th 23:38, showing that in 24 hours £ has traveled i degree and 30 
minutes, and in six hours it travels 22 minutes. Enter £ a little above 
the line marked 8 in the blank map, in the sign Aquaries (/£?) 22:30. 

On the right hand column on top of second page of Ephemeris for 
March, the student will find "Moon's Node" and on the 3rd day he will 
find 13:53 in /% . Enter the Moon's North Node ( Q ) in the blank map 
on the line marked 8. The opposite sign, of the map being Si enter the 
South Node (£3), 13:47. 




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Chart of the heavens for the time President McKinley took the oath 
of office, March 4th, 1897, at ):i8 P. M., Washington,' D. C. 

The above Chart is what is termed an Astrological Map of the 
heavens all complete, (except the [©] pare of fortune, which I shall 
show the reader how to find when I explain to him how to calculate 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 147 

the next chart following). We sometimes look for what are termed 
the aspects, both good and evil, and place them below the figure, in 
the following manner : — 

Good Aspects. Evil Aspects. 

S A $ D J 

$ A ¥ U D i> 

) a ^ U a W 

? A U 

We also sometimes copy the Latitudes and Declinations of the Sun, 
Moon and planets for that day, and place them in a similar manner, 
below the figure. 

I shall defer what is termed reading the foregoing chart until the stu- 
dent is further advanced in his studies, and will only add that if a child 
was born in or near Washington, D. C, on March 4th, 1897, at 
1.18 P. M. the foregoing chart would be that child's Horoscope or Na- 
tivity, and we would read it as we read all other Nativities, according to 
the rules of "Gcnethliacal Astrology." But as this chart was calcu- 
lated for the time the President took the oath of office, we have to read 
it according to the rules of "Mundane Astrology" which I shall treat 
of in the latter part of this volume. 

It is very important that the student should learn to set a figure or 
chart of the heavens correctly, for any part of the day or night. 
Therefore I cannot do better than give another example how to erect a 
map of the heavens. I will erect the next chart for the time that the 
Extra Congress met in Washington, D. C. , 1897, being the first Con- 
gress under President McKinley. 

The New York Evening Sun, of March 1 5 th, 1 897, in its Washington 
news, states: — "That precisely at 12 o'clock (noon) the clerk called 
the house to order." Therefore we will calculate the chart for 1 2 o'clock 
(noon) that day. The student must read again carefully the rules how 
to set a map of the heavens on page 142. 

In Raphael's Ephemeris on March 15, 1897, in column 3, marked 
on the top of the column Sidereal Time, you will find 23:33 and as it 
is neither before nor after 12 noon, we neither subtract nor add, but take 
these figures and look in the Table of Houses, for New York. On the 
first column on the left hand side and under Sidereal Time, find the 
nearest number to the above which is 23 degrees, 34 minutes and 18 
seconds, and on a line with that in the next column on the top, you 
will find number 10, meaning loth house, and underneath the sign )£. 
Enter the sign X and 23 on the end of line marked 10, in blank map. 
On the top of next column you will find number 1 1 and °f underneath, 
and on a line with 23.34 y ou w ^ ^ n ^ 2 9 '• enter T 29 on end of line 
marked 1 1 in blank map. On the top of the next column find number 
12 and down the column the sign n, and on a line with 23:34 the 
figure 9 : place n and 9 on the end of line marked 12, in blank map. 
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house, and down in the column find the sign £3, and on a line with 
23:34 find 13.37 : place © 13:37 on end of line marked 1, in blank map. 

On top of next column find 2, and below in same column find ft, 
and on a line with 23:34 find 3, place ft 3, on end of line marked 2, 
in blank map. On top of the next column find figure 3, and immedi- 
ately below the sign ft, and on a line with 23:34 find 25 : place ft 25, 
on end of line marked 3, in blank map. 

On page 143 the student will find what signs are opposite each other, 
as T is opposite =£=, and TTJ£ is opposite ^, etc. Therefore place TTJi. 
on end of line marked 4, in blank map, and always place the same 
number that is with the opposite sign ; as X in this blank map is 23 
degrees, place 23 along with TTJ2. ; and copy =a= and 29 degrees on end of 
line marked 5, in blank map; and $ 9 on end of line marked 6; and 
^3 13.37 on end of line marked 7 ; and £? 3 on end of line marked 8, 
also £? 25 on end of line marked 9. 

After the student has gone around the chart in this manner, then he 
must look and see that all the twelve signs of the Zodiac are on the chart. 
Commence counting °f , 8 , II, etc.; the student will notice in this chart 
the sign ft is left out ; therefore insert the sign 8 just under the line of 
outer circle between T and n, and directly opposite place TT[ just within 
the line of the circle, between =£= and $ . Then all the signs and number 
of degrees are put in their correct places in blank map. 

We now commence to calculate the longitude of the Sun, Moon and 
each of the planets, and insert them in their proper places or the signs 
where they belong, and with their degrees and minutes marked along 
side of them. 

(If the chart of the heavens was calculated for 12 o'clock noon, 
London, England, we should then copy the number of degrees and 
minutes into the blank chart that are affixed to the Sun and Moon and 
the planets in the Ephemeris for 12 o'clock noon on the 15th of March, 
1897.) 

But the reader will remember that in the former chart of the heavens 
that we calculated, that there is a difference of 5 hours and 8 minutes in 
time between London, England, and Washington, D. C; therefore 
we have to add the number of degrees and minutes that a planet has 
travelled from 6. 5 2 o'clock in the morning to 12 o'clock noon to the 
number of degrees and minutes that the planet is marked in the 
Ephemeris. 

The student will find that the Sun on the 15th of March is 25 de- 
grees and 1 1 minutes, on the 16th, is 26 degrees and very nearly 1 1 min- 
utes, therefore the Sun is going one degree a day ; in that case it goes 
12 minutes in longitude in 5 hours; we in this case mark the Sun in the 
sign X 25:23 and to the left of the line marked 10 in the blank chart. 
The moon in Raphael's Ephemeris is 10 degrees and 23 minutes on the 
15th, and on the 16th, 24 degrees and 5 minutes, therefore it is going 13 
degrees and 42 minutes in 24 hours, or 2 degrees and 50 minutes in 5 
hours, we add the 2 degrees and' 50 minutes to the 10 degrees and 23 
minutes, which makes 13 degrees and 13 minutes, we enter the Moon 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 1 49 

and that number a little below the line marked 2 in the blank chart 
in the sign ft. f , W and *? travel very little in the 24 hours 
between the 15th and 16th ; therefore we enter these planets and the 
degrees and minutes as we find them in the Ephemeris. f 17 degrees 
and 37 minutes in n , a little below the line marked 12 in the blank 
chart, l$l" in the sign TF[ 29 degrees and o minutes; between the 2 lines 
numbers 5 and 6 R ; also enter 7? 0.45 in ^ a little below the line 
marked 6 R; 2£ is Retrograding 7 minutes in the 24 hour's, therefore 
we subtract 2 from 2:46, making it 2 degrees and 44 minutes, 
and enter it to the left of the line marked 4 in the blank chart, i,n the 
sign TfJJ. R. Mars travels at the rate of 26 minutes in the 24 hours, 
therefore we add 5 minutes to the 27:5, marked in the Ephemeris, and 
enter it 27 degrees and 10 minutes in the sign n, a little below f. 
Venus is going at the rate of 40 minutes in the 24 hours, therefore we 
add 8 minutes to the 8 degrees and 12 minutes marked in the Ephemeris, 
and enter it between the line 11 and 12 in the blank chart, in the sign 
ft, 8 degrees, 20 minutes. Mercury is travelling at the rate of nearly 
two degrees a day ; therefore it will go 24 minutes in the 5 hours, we 
add the 24 minutes to the 9.33 which makes 9.57, and enter it to the 
right of the line marked 10 in the blank chart in the sign X. The 
Moon's Node is 13 degrees and 15 minutes in the sign £?; therefore 
we enter that number a little below the line marked 9 in the blank chart 
in the sign £?, and we enter the £3 and 13:15 a little above the line marked 
3 in the blank chart. The figure is now complete, except the " Part of 
Fortune " which I shall explain to the student how to calculate it in 
the next chart of the heavens that we erect. We shall defer reading 
this chart until we come to treat on the subject of Mundane Astrology 
in the latter part of this volume. (See page 150.) 

It will be advisable for the student, in order to perfect himself in 
erecting the charts of the heavens, to calculate a chart for the same time 
of day, for each day in succession. Possibly it may be the be;t for the 
learner if he lives in, or near New York City, to calculate it for 7 o'clock 
in the morning; in that case he will look in the Ephemeris for the Side- 
real Time for that day at 12 o'clock noon, which he wishes to calculate 
the chart of the heavens; and from that sum marked there he will sub- 
tract 5 hours, and with the remainder, he will then look in the Table 
of Houses for New York City, for the nearest to that sum in the first 
column, or Sidereal Time, or the nearest number corresponding to the 
Sidereal Time in the Ephemeris for that day; after he has deducted 
the 5 hours before noon. Then copy the signs and figures on a line 
with the Sidereal Time, belonging to the 10th, nth and 12th, the 
Ascendant or First House, and the 2nd and 3rd house, in a blank chart. 
After the student has copied all the Northern signs, he must look for the 
Southern signs, or for the signs that are opposite each other; also write 
the degrees and minutes that are along side the Northern signs, along 
side of the Southern signs. Afterwards he will copy out of the 
Ephemeris the Sun, Moon, and the planets just as he finds them 
marked for that day, and their degrees and minutes along side of each. 



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Then he will have a chart of the heavens for 7 A. M. for that day, and 
will by. looking at it know what aspects the Moon is going to make 
during the day. 

Below the student will find chart of the heavens for the time that 
Congress met in Washington, D. C, March 15, 1897, at 12 noon. 




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I shall explain how to read the above chart in the latter 'pari of this volume. 

I calculate the positions of the signs and of the planets for 1 2 o'clock 
noon, for every day of the year, in order to find out what aspects the 
Moon forms with the other planets and the Sun ; I also notice what 
aspects the Sun and Moon form with the positions of the planets, in 
my horoscope, for that day. The student will find it good practice, if 
he follows the same method, and he will find by doing so, that he is 
learning something every day, and when he has learned it, he would 
rather part with any other knowledge that he may possess, than that 
knowledge. 

After the student has learned to set the chart of the heavens for any 
day at 7 A. M., it would be advisable for him next to learn how to 
calculate a map of the heavens for 1 P. M. By looking in the Ephemeris 
for the Sidereal Time, and then adding one hour to that sum, and to 
look in the Table of Houses for the " Sidereal Time " and copy the 6 
Northern signs on the houses, 10th, 11th, 12th, 1st, 2nd and 3rd, and 
the degrees and minutes along side ; also after placing the Southern 
signs in the blank chart opposite the Northern signs, then in order to 
get the longitude of the planets, he must see how far they travel in 
the 24 hours, and take one quarter of that sum and add to the longitude 
of the planets marked in the Ephemeris, and enter them into the proper 
signs in the blank chart, but if the planet is Retrogade, then he must see 
how much it is retrograding in the 24 hours, and subtract one quarter 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. I5I 

of that sum from the number of degrees and minutes, marked in the 
Ephemeris, and enter the remainder with the planets in the blank chart 
in its proper sign and house. 

THE HOROSCOPE OF MRS. MAUD S's DAUGHTER. 

The next chart of the heavens that we propose to erect is that of the 
daughter of Mrs. Maud S., born July 2, 1884, at 8:35 A - M -> New 
York City. 

In order for the student to follow me in the calculation of this horo- 
scope, he will have to procure an Ephemeris for 1884, and if he looks 
in the 3d, column under the words " Sidereal Time," on the 2d of July, 
for that year, he will find 6 hours and nearly 44 minutes, and as this time 
of birth occurred before noon, he will deduct the number of hours and 
minutes that will elapse from 8:35 A. M. to 12 noon, which is 3 hours 
and 25 minutes, he will subtract that sum from 6 hours and 44 minutes, 
which will leave 3 hours and 19 minutes, he will then look for the near- 
est to that number of hours and minutes in the "Table of Houses" for 
New York, and he will there find 3 hours, 18 minutes, and on a line with 
these figures he will find the longitude of the loth, llth, 12th, 1st, 2d 
and 3d houses, which he will enter in a blank chart; he will then place 
in the same chart the opposite signs and their degrees and minutes. 
Then the student will look in the Ephemeris for July 2, 1884, and there 
find the longitude of the Sun, Moon and planets for 12 noon calculated 
for London, which is equivlent to 7 A. M. in New York. He will then 
calculate how much each planet travels from 7 A. M. to 8:35 A. M., 
and place the planets and degrees and minutes in their proper signs and 
houses in the blank figure. 

HOW TO CALCULATE THE PART OF FORTUNE. 

292 In this chart of the heavens I have also calculated the 
"Part of Fortune," and this is done by adding- the longitude 
of the Ascendant to the longitude of the Moon, and from 
that sum subtract the longitude of the Sun; the remainder is. 
the longitude of the " Part of Fortune" in signs, degrees and 
minutes. We always commence to count free*-- Aries, and 
count to the sign next to that in which the Sun and Moon is 
located ; we count the same way for the Ascendant. In this 
case we find that in counting from Aries the 

Ascendant is 4 signs, 28 degrees, 4 minutes, 
the Moon is 7 " 6 S3 " a dd. 

" •* 34 " 37 " 

the Sun is 3 11 00 " subtract. 

8 " 2 3 37 

293 In this case the Sun is 8 signs, 23 degrees and 37 min- 
utes, and if we count from Aries we will find that the 8th sign 
is Scorpio; therefore the "Part of Fortune" is 8 whole signs, 



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and 23 degrees and 37 minutes into the 9th sign, which is 
Sagittarius ; and enter accordingly in f just below the line 
marked 5 in the blank map. 



tfu 




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CHART OF THE HEAVENS FOR GIRL BORN JULY 2d, 

1884, at 8:35 A. M., NEW YORK CITY. 

Chart of the heavens for the above named time of birth all complete, 
ready for the Astrologer to commence what we call reading. 

No doubt the chart appears to the student like a wagon wheel, with 
12 spokes, and a large hub in the centre, with certain hieroglyphics on the 
outside rim, and on a number of spokes ; these hyeroglyphics may appear 
to the student like insects crawling on the spokes and on the rim, and he 
will probably be equally puzzled as to what they mean, as the editor of 
the ''New York Times"; but possibly he may be like Mrs. Maud S. and 
have "perfect good faith, and really believe that the data submitted is 
sufficient basis for calculations of practical value." I shall not "concoct 
a horoscope for the day and year here given," neither s>hall I do "any 
dreary fooling," I leave that for the editor of the u JVew York Ti?nes" 
but I expect to make the horoscope interesting. If the student ever 
becomes a good Astrologer, he will be able to see the picture of the young 
lady in this " hieroglyphic diagram " as she appeared as a baby, at 2 or 3, 
at 8 or 10, also at 18 or 20 years old, or at any other period of 
her life, not only as she will look when a young lady of 25 or 30, or 
whether fat, slender, tall, or short, dark or light, but also he could give color 
of hair and eyes, and her varied physique and general appearance. 
Also as she will appear when a woman of 50 or 60 or more years old. 



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I shall explain to the student how to describe her mental qualities, and 
tell what business she might succeed in, if any, what kind of men she 
should avoid, in order to guard against disgrace or special unhappiness, 
and a particular description of the gentleman she will marry, and the 
gentleman she will meet with who is likely to cause her much unhappiness, 
and whom she will not marry, and which party she ought to try to avoid ; 
also I shall explain to the student what diseases she will suffer from, and 
in what parts of her life they will occur, and what parts of the body will 
be most afflicted, and a number of other things which it is advisable 
for every person to know to guard against misfortunes. 

The student must not expect to learn every thing at once (Rome 
was not built in a day); he must be satisfied at first by being able to tell 
whether the horoscope is a fortunate or an unfortunate one, and afterwards 
he must learn why it is unfortunate, and what particular aspects and 
positions of the planets make it unfortunate, and why it is fortunate and 
what particular aspects or positions of the planets make it fortunate. 
For instance, in the horoscope of Chas. Dryden, John Dryden told his 
wife "that the child was born in an evil hour, that Jupiter, Venus and 
the Sun were all under the Earth, and the Ascendant afflicted with an 
hateful square of Mars and Saturn." These remarks indicated that the 
child had a very unfortunate horoscope, and that all the evil directions 
during its life, or what are sometimes termed aspects, would tell with a 
vengeance ; and that he would not feel much good from what are called 
the good aspects or directions. 

The above horoscope is what is termed a rather fortunate one, still 
it would have been much better if the Sun did not make an aspect of 
Mars for her first marriage, especially as Mars is an evil planet and in 
evil aspect to Saturn in the midheaven. 



LORDS OR RULERS OF THE SIGNS OF THE 
ZODIAC. 

294 Before the student can begin to learn to read a nativity 
or horoscope properly, in addition to learning the houses and 
the signs of the Zodiac and their signification, also the 
planets, and their various significations, he will have to learn 
what are termed the lords and ladies of the houses, or rather 
lords or rulers of the signs of the Zodiac. The seven planets 
which the ancients were acquainted with, were Saturn, 
Jupiter, -Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury and the Moon. The 
old Astrologer allotted two of the signs of the Zodiac to each 
one of these planets, as they found by experience that those 
old Astrologers alotted two of the signs of the Zodiac to each 
them, than they had in any other of the signs of the Zodiac; 
but they only allotted one' sign each to the Sun and Moon; 
and no matter what sign each of the five planets and the Sun 
and Moon may happen to be in, they are still said to be lords 
and ladies of the signs that have been allotted to them, as 
those old astrologers found by long experience and practice, 



154 ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 

that what are sometimes called the seven planets have great 
influence or sympathy with the particular signs that they are 
lords or ladies of, and which they retain, whether they are in 
these signs or not. For instance, Mars is lord of Aries and 
Scorpio ; Venus is lady of Taurus and Libra ; Mercury is lord 
of Gemini and Virgo ; Moon is lady of Cancer ; Sun is lord 
of Leo;* Jupiter of Sagittary and Pisces; and Saturn of 
Capricorn and Aquarius. 

295 I have generally been the most successful in getting 
students to commit to memory what are termed the lords or 
ladies of the houses or signs of the Zodiac, by his learning 
them in the order in which I have here given. Some 
students learn them easiest one way, and some another. 
I will give below four different methods of committing them 
to memory, and the student may choose whichever method he 
finds the easiest to learn, but whichever method he learns 
them by, he must bear in mind he must commit them to 
memory before he can read a nativity or horary question 
successfully. 





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* Claudius Ptolemy in his Tetrabiblos. as translated by Ashmond, tells us that the reason 
the old astrologers allotted the sign Leo to the Sun, was that the Sun had the most power or in- 
fluence over vegetation, etc, when he was in the sign Leo, that is from the 22d of July to the 22d 
of August ; and as the Sun has the most power in the sign Cancer (from the 23d of June to the 
22d of July), in causing rain and wet weather, they allotted the sign Cancer to the Moon, it being 
a moist or watery planet. Then as Saturn was a cold and dry planet, it being the furthest away 
from the Sun, they allotted it the two signs furthest away from Cancer and Leo, or the signs in 
opposition to those two, that is Capricorn and Aquarius, as the two houses or signs of Saturn ; then 
as Jupiter was the next nearest to Saturn, coming towards the Sun and Moon, and being a warm 
and moist planet, they allotted it the next two signs to Capricorn and Aquarius, that is Pisces 
Sagittary ; then they allotted the next two signs coming towards Cancer and Leo, to Mars, that is 
Scorpio and Aries ; then they allotted the next two signs, that is Taurus and Libra to Venus ; then 
the next two signs, that is Gemini and Virgo they allotted to the planet Mercury; then Cancer 
was allotted to the Moon and Leo to the Sun. 

t Zadkiel, of London, tells us in one of his books on Astrology, that there is a stone in the 
British Museum, which was brought from Egypt with the above arrangement of the Planets and 
Signs of the Zodiac engraved on it, and the Astronomers and savants of Europe have been puzz- 
ling their brains how it was that the ancient Egyptians so arranged the signs and the planets, and 
whether in some prehistoric age the signs of the Zodiac followed in the order above shown. If those 
savants had looked into any Astro 1 ogical text book, they would have had the whole thing 1 x- 
plained in a nut shell ; but it would have lowered their dignity to have consulted an Astrological 
book. There is no doubt but that some ancient Astrologer so arranged them and had them engraved, 
so that Ids students could more easdy learn them ; or he might have done it, so as to keep them 
constantly in his own mind. 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 155 

296 The student cannot have the lords of the various signs too thor- 
oughly committed to memory. If he does not know them well, he will 
commit a number of mistakes in his reading of horoscopes. He can 
choose whichever of the four tables given that he thinks he can 
commit easiest to memory. 

297 In order to make the student understand what is meant by the lords 
and ladies of the different signs or houses, and at the same time under- 
stand the above tables, I will say that after the chart of the heavens is 
cast, the student will first see what sign is on the Ascendant or first 
house, and if °f is on the ascendant then $ is said to be lord of the 
ascendant or first house. If 8 is on the ascendant, then ? is lady of 
the first house. If n is on the ascendant then £ is lord of the first 
house. If £3 is on the ascendant, then the Moon is lady of the Ascend- 
ant or first house, and so on through the whole signs of the Zodiac ; in 
the same manner if °P is on the midheaven or loth house, then & is 
said to be lord of the loth house, or if 8 is on the midheaven, then $ 
is lady of the loth house. The same if °p is on the 7th house, then $ 
is lord of the 7th house, and if 8 is on the 7th house, then $ is lady 
of the 7th ; and so on through the 12 signs of the Zodiac, and through 
the different houses of the heavens. 

RULES FOR READING HOROSCOPES. 

When we commence to read a horoscope we generally divide it into 
what are termed parts or divisions : 

1st. As to whether the native may live or not, and the probable 
length of life. 

2d. The description of the party, whether light or dark, tall 
or short, etc. . 

3d. The diseases that he will be afflicted with, or is most liable to. 

4th. Whether the person will be wealthy or poor, or have various 
changes in life, sometimes up or down. 

5th. The mental qualities, or what line of studies to pursue. 

6th. The disposition or temper, whether high tempered or oi an 
easy disposition. 

7th. What line of business the native may succeed in, and his nat- 
ural inclinations 

8th. We examine in regard to friends or enemies, whether much 
benefitted by the former, or much afflicted by the latter, and which will 
be the most injurious or beneficial, males or females. 

9th. We examine in regard to moral character, whether religious oi 
skeptical, vicious, or inclined to be honorable. 

loth. We look in regard to relations and near neighbors, and long 
and short journeys. 



I56 ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 

11th. In regard to marriage, whether happy or unhappy, and a 
description of the person the native will marry ; also a description 
of the persons they will keep company with previous to marriage. 

12th. The probable time of life the party will marry. 

13th. Children; whether few or many, beneficial or injurious. 

14th. Whether the native will enjoy fair health or be^sick most of 
the time, or whether they will ever be troubled with sickness. 

15 th. The various contingencies and events of life. 

HAVE A REGULAR SYSTEM OF READING A 
HOROSCOPE. 

It is always advisable for the student to acquire a certain method or 
system of reading a horoscope, as in that case he is less liable to 
become confused or leave out some important part of the nativity, but 
there are times when it will be advisable to deviate from one particular 
method ; for instance, on one occasion I was consulted by a lady, mother 
of a leading New York actress ; after giving her age and where she 
was born, I calculated a chart of the heavens for the time of birth. 
The first words I said to her were, "You did not live with your 
husband three months." She answered by saying, " Well, I managed 
to murder it out with him a whole year." The reader will easily see 
that I made a mistake to begin with, but the lady discovered there was 
something in Astrology. When the student sees a striking feature in 
a horoscope, it is often advisable to touch upon that feature at once, as 
in that case he will often get the confidence of his client at the outset, 
but as I previously remarked, it is generally advisable to acquire a 
certain method and stick to it as near as possible ; even when he has 
everything down to an almost perfect system, he will find plenty 
to confuse him, on account of horoscopes differing so much from 
one another. I shall never forget, while studying Astrology, a 
remark made by my brother, which was, " Throw as much overboard as 
you possibly can, and judge by the remainder, and even then you will 
have plenty to confuse you." The student often acquires the bad habit 
of actually trying to confuse himself; he gets everything mixed by 
trying to judge from too many combinations, when on the contrary he 
should try to acquire the habit of separating the science into parts, and 
in that way simplify it as much as possible, and in course of time will 
begin to make good headway, and gradually master the science. 

Astrology, like music, may be divided into a science and an art. 
For instance, a person may understand the science of music almost to 
perfection, and yet may not be able to play a single instrument, and only 
an indifferent singer ; in like manner a person may be well versed in the 
science of Astrology, and not be able to read a single horoscope cor- 
rectly. The former is called the science, and the latter the art of 
Astrology, but no person can be an artist in either music or Astrology 
unless they have some knowledge of the science. 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 1 57 

The first thing I generally look at in a horoscope is to see whether 
the person is likely to live ; sometimes I look at the person* themselves, 
"and then at the horoscope, and if the horoscope does not describe a 
person like the client, I know then that there has been a mistake made 
in the time or place of birth, and I go no further uutil that mistake 
is rectified. 

1st. — Giver of Life. 

After the chart of the heavens is calculated, I generally see how 
strong the giver of life is, because that decides the length of life, other 
influences or aspects being equal. To find out which is the giver of 
life, we first see where the Sun or Moon is, whether either of them is 
in what are termed " Hylegiacal Places " in the horoscope. These places 
of the heavens are divided into three parts : the first is from 5 degrees above 
the cusp of the ascendant to 25 degrees below; the next is 5 degrees 
below the cusp of the 7th house to 25 degrees above ; the next is 5 
degrees below the cusp of the 9th house to 25 degrees below the cusp 
of the 1 ith house. 

If the Sun is in any of these places, it is said to be the giver of life, 
and if unafHicted, then the person will live to an old age, unless some 
remarkably evil positions of the planets indicate the contrary ; even then 
the native will not die in infancy, and may live beyond middle age. If 
the Sun is not in any of the positions above named, then the Moon is 
giver of life, if she is in any of these places referred to above. But 
the Moon is not as strong for long life, when the giver of life, as the 
Sun, and the person who has the Moon "Hyleg" seldom enjoys the best 
of health. When neither the Sun nor the Moon is the giver of life, then 
the ascendant is said to be " Hyleg," which is that part of the heavens 
from 5 degrees above the cusp of the ascendant to 25 degress below, 
and if the ascendant is afflicted by the presence of an evil planet (either 
Saturn or Mars), it is then very doubtful of the native living to middle 
age ; but if Jupiter and Venus be in the ascendant or within 25 degrees 
below the cusp, then the chances of life are much more in favor of the 
native. 

In the horoscope of the young lady born July 2, 1884, at 8.35 A. M., 
the student will find that the Sun is the giver of life, as there are 27 
degrees of Gemini on the cusp of the 11th house, and the Sun is ii 
degrees in Cancer ; therefore the Sun is within 14 degrees of the cusp of 
the lith house, consequently it is the giver of life in this horoscope, 
and it is unafflicted — that is, no evil planet afflicts the Sun, and the Moon 
is applying. to a trine of the Sun, and the San is making a sextile of Mars 
rising; therefore, it is said to be well fortified, and the native is almost 
certain to live to old age, or between 60 or 70 years old. 

The Moon is always co-significator in all horoscopes, unless it be the 
planet that the native is born under, and in those cases Cancer is on 
the ascendant, and the Moon is then the ruling planet, it being lady 
of that sign. 

If the Moon had not been afflicted in the sign Scorpio in this horo- 
scope, and so near a square of Jupiter, in the 12th house (an evil house), 



I58 ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY, 

and Jupiter being lord of the 8th house (the house of death), she might 
in that case live to be over 70. 

2d. — Personal Description. 

In order to describe the native by the horoscope, we first notice the 
sign in the ascendant, also see if there are any planets in the ascendant, 
and if so, we notice the signs that thev are in, and also see if they have 
any aspects to any other planets; then we go to the lord of the ascendant 
and see what sign it is in, and if it has any aspects to any other planets; 
then we go to the Moon and see what sign it is in, and what aspect it 
has to any other planets, and judge by the combination of the whole. 

In the horoscope of Mrs. Maud S. 's daughter, the sign Leo is on the 
ascendant, therefore the student must read what kind of person the sign 
Leo describes (see 17).* There is no planet in the ascendant, therefore 
we go to the Sun in the sign Cancer, and read the Sun in Cancer, 107; 
then we notice the Sun is in sextile to Mars, we read the kind of person 
the Sun in sextile to Mars describes, 234; then we turn to the Moon 
and read the kind of person the Moon in Scorpio describes, 147. 
In this horoscope the Moon is in close square to Jupiter in Leo, and being 
so near the square, we read 84, what kind of a person Jupiter in Leo will 
describe, also the description of the Moon in square to Jupiter, 277, and 
by the combination of the whole we describe the native. The student 
must not notice any other planets in the horoscope in describing the 
native, unless they are in opposition, or in square, trine, or sextile 
aspect to the ascendant, as for instance, a planet in the 7th house in 
opposition to the degree and minute rising, or in close square from the 
lOth or 4th, or in trine to the ascendant from the 9th or 5th, or in sextile 
from the 3d or 1 lth; and as I said before, you must notice very particu- 
larly any planet or planets that may be in the ascendant and what 
signs they are in. In the nativity of Mrs. Maud S.'s daughter, we find 
that there are over 28 degrees of the sign Leo on the ascendant ; there- 
fore nearly all that sign has risen, and in this horoscope there is a great 
part of the sign Virgo in the ascendant. In this case we have to read 
18, giving the description of the sign Virgo, and then go to the lord 
of Virgo, which is Mercury, and notice what sign it is in, which is 
Gemini, and what aspect it has to any other planet (it is in cquar~ to 
Uranus) ; we first read the description of Mercury in Gemini, and then 
read the description of Mercury in square to Uranus, and by mixing the 
whole, we can get at a very close description of the native ; but this 
part of Astrology requires considerable skill and practice to become 
proficient in. 

In order to simplify the method of describing a person by the horo- 
scope, or by the position of the planets at the time of birtl , I will, in 
this case, reprint the descriptions of the signs Leo and Virgo on the 
ascendant ; also, the lord of the ascendant, which is the Sun in Cancer in 
sextile aspect to Mars ; also a person described by the Moon in Scorpio, 

* Refers to paragraph 17 on page 07, which describes a person born with Leo in the ascend- 
ant or 1st house. This explanation will answer for all other numbers which follow. All those 
paragraphs which are numbered are printed in large type. 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. l£g 

and the description of Jupiter in Leo ; also of a person described by the 
Moon in square to Jupiier; also a person described by Mercury in 
Gemini, and by Mercury in square to Uranus. 

For practice, the student must see how near he could come to writing 
off a personal description of the native, by the combination of the whole, 
as indicated by the above horoscope. It will be good practice for him 
to try and do it over a number of times, and then read the description 
that I give of Mrs. Maud S. 's daughter, on page 38. There is one 
thing that the student should distinctly keep in mind, that is, he should 
condense the personal description as much as possible, so that any person 
acquainted with the young lady who reads it, would say, "that is her 
exact description," just the same as if looking at a good photograph or 
oil-painting of the lady. 



Here follows the quality and description of the signs Leo and Virgo, 
also of the Sun, Jupiter, Mercury and the Moon. 

Leo gives a great round head, large, prominent, or staring eyes, quick 
sighted, a full and large body, and of more than middle stature ; broad 
shoulders, narrow sides, yellow or dark flaxen hair, curling or turning up; 
a fierce countenance, but ruddy, high, sanguine complexion; strong, 
valiant and active; step firm and mind courteous. 

Virgo gives a slender body, rather tall but well composed, a ruddy 
brown complexion, black hair, well favored or lovely, but not a beautiful 
creature, small, shrill voice, judicious and exceedingly well-spoken, 
studious and given to history, whether man or woman. 

Sun in Cancer gives a mean, ill-formed body, deformed in the face, 
with a very unhealthy aspect, the hair brown. A harmless, cheerful 
person, but indolent and not fond of employment. 

Sun Sextile to Mars confers great bravery and a high spirit ; he rises 
to grandeur by means of his courage and invincible military talents. 

Moon in Scorpio denotes a thick, short, and ill-shaped person, a 
fleshy, obscure complexion, dark hair, often black. 

Moon in Square to Jupiter he is injured by faithless friends and 
deceitful relatives, and his property is impoverished by hypocritical 
fanatics. 

Jupiter in Leo represents a strong and well-proportioned, tall body ; 
the hair is a light or yellowish brown and curling; complexion, ruddy; 
eye, full and fiery; person, rather handsome. 

Mercury in Gemini shows a tall, upright, straight body, well formed, 
brown hair, good complexion, and a very intelligent look. 

Mercury in Square to Uranus, he lacks intuitive observation and 
instinctive judgment ; is skeptical, etc. 



After the student has read all the above, of a person being described 
by the signs and planets, no doubt, to his mind, it will appear all con- 
fusion, and it would puzzle a Philadelphia lawyer to straighten the 
matter out, but after a while he will find that it will all come plain and 



l6o ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 

easy to him ; experience will teach him what to rely on in almost all 
cases, and what is only of secondary importance. It is very difficult to 
describe this young lady by her horoscope, on account of what is called 
conflicting testimony ; but in some nativities which we shall read further 
on, the student will find it then very plain and easy describing the natives 
by their horoscope. There are no special rules that never vary and 
that can be relied upon in all cases, but generally he must give : 

1st. — Prominence to the signs on or in the ascendant. 

2d. — To planets in the ascendant. 

3d. — To the lord of the ascendant and its aspects. 

4th. — To the Moon and its aspects. 

Whenever there is a planet in the Ascendant, especially if it is a 
superior planet, it generally has the most influence in describing the 
native. In the nativity of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, Jupiter is in 
Leo in his ascendant, and if the student reads Jupiter in Leo, on page 
109, he will find that it comes very close to Mr. Beecher's description. 
General Grant had Saturn, Sun and Jupiter in the sign Taurus in the 
Ascendant, and if the Student reads all those planets in the sign Taurus, 
he will find that they come very close to giving an accurate description 
of him.* In the horoscope of Mrs. Maud S's daughter, if there had 
only been the sign Leo in the ascendant and the Sun in Cancer, it would 
have been much easier to describe her, and she would also have been 
much lighter complexioned (a regular blond), and much fuller built, 
even as a child or young lady, especially as the Moon is in the sign 
Scorpio, a stout sign; but there being a part of Virgo in the ascendant, 
and it being a tall, dark sign, and Mercury in another tall, dark sign 
(Gemini), those influences make her quite slender when young, and above 
the medium height, and also will gradually cause her hair to become a 
light brown as she gets older. But the Moon being in a stout sign, and 
the Sun being in Cancer, a stout sign, and a stout sign on the cusp of 
the ascendant makes her full built; after middle age, or at 40 or 45, she 
may reach the weight of near 200 pounds, chiefly caused by the Moon 
being in the sign Scorpio, and in square to Jupiter in Leo. 

After a little practice, this part of Astrology will become very plain 
and easy, besides being very convincing of the truth of the science. It 
will be advisable for'the student at first, whenever he attempts to read 
a horoscope, in describing the native, to copy out of this volume, on a 
sheet of paper, the kind of person described by the sign in the ascendant, 
and of any planet in the ascendant ; the description of the lord or lady 
of the ascendant in whatever sign it may happen to be in, the aspects of 
the lord of the ascendant; and then the person described by the Moon, 
in whatever sign it may be in, and its aspects ; by so doing the student 
will' be surprised how easy it becomes. 

To give an illustration, a homcepathic physician may have to read 
over a number of large pages in his Homeopathic Materia Medica, in 
order to arrive at the proper remedy, to meet all the symptoms that his 

* These two horoscopes will be published further on in this volume. 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 



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patient may at the time be afflicted with. After a while, by experience, 
he appears to arrive at the proper remedy as if it were by instinct. So 
the student in Astrology, after he has read a number of horoscopes knows 
what aspects and what planets and signs to rely on, and he will arrive 
at a right conclusion, as if it were by intuition; but Astrology, like music 
and a number of other sciences and professions, is largely dependent on 
experience and practice. I might say practice is everything.* 

I shall condense the remainder of the horoscope for Mrs. Maud S. 's 
daughter, and only give an outline as a guidance, and let the student 
enlarge on it from his own study and investigation. 

3d. — Sickness and Diseases and Complaints. 

The diseases this young lady is most liable to suffer from, are indicated 
by the Moon in Scorpio, which governs the lower part of the body and 
back, such as the kidneys, bladder, uterus and lower part of the intestines ; 
the Moon being in square to Jupiter in the 12th house (the house of 
sorrow and trouble), in the sign Leo, which governs the heart and back, 
and Jupiter also being lord of the 8th house (the house of death), 
Saturn in Gemini, which governs the chest and arms, being the lord of 

the 6th house (the house of sickness), and in square to Mars, lord of the 

: ^- . : 

* Unless the student takes great pleasure in the science of Astrology, regardless of any worldly 
benefit that it might be to him, it is impossible for him to become a learned or scientific Astrologer. 
It is like all other sciences or professions in that respect. Tlie musician, artist, or sculptor who 
does not take pleasure in his particular line of art, will never arrive at the head of his profession. 

There are some people in this world who can never see any good in anything unless it brings 
them wealth. Money is their God, and if they can only see and reach the glittering gold at the 
final goal, they are ready to endure all kinds of hardships, of either heat or cold, and put up with 
all kinds of privations to attain their object. We have an illustration or object lesson in proof of 
this, in the thousands of persons who have heard of the discovery of gold near the Klondyke River 
in Alaska, and who are going in crowds to that god-forsaken country, and are ready to relinquish 
everthing — their wives, families and friends, and endure the inclemency of an arctic climate — to put 
up with all kinds of inconveniences, both in regard to food, lodging and clothing, and even run 
the risk of destroying their health and their lives, by such exposure. 

To those persons who make wealth their god, I have to say that there is money to be made by 
the practice of Astrology, without having to endure all the above enumerated hardships, and with- 
out having to leave family or home ; on the contrary, it will be a continued source of pleasure and 
happiness. But money cannot be acquired by Astrology, without working for it. In course of. 
time the student will become so proficient in the science as to have clients come to consult him, 
and pay him fees for his services, and which often amounts to quite a sum in a week ; besides, he 
may get orders to write horoscopes, for from $2 to $5, $10 or $20 each ; there are also a number of 
people who wish to have each day written off; called "Fortunate or Unfortunate day," and 
remarks for each month, for which they pay $5. I have written those days off for some parties for 
nearly Jo years. I have also written off predictions of the stock, mines, and produce market, for 
which clients pay $5 per week, and those parties often come to consult me besides, for which they 
seldom pay less than $5 per visit. He may also, in time, get orders to wiite horoscopes for daily 
newspapers, which sometimes, in my case, has amounted to $200 per week ; and at times it was 
impossible to supply the demand, the editors of the papers writing and telegraphing almost daily, 
" Can you send us more horoscopes? We want to get out a larger Sunday edition, and insert 4 
pages of horoscopes,'' when they were publishing two or more columns, three times per week 
besides the Sunday editions, and they paid me $5 per column, and seven columns to a page. 

The people are becoming hungry for this kind of literature, call, d the Occult ; they devour it, 
whenever it comes in their reach. I need only mention such works as H. Rider Haggard's 
"She," F. Marion Crawford's "Mr. Isaacs," and a number of other books which have large 
circulations, but more especially works on Theosophy, which are all running into Astrology, and 
which works are now extensively read ; in short Theosophy. Astrology, etc., are in the air. People 
breathe it, especially in the Western States . It is astonishing how many book stores have sprung 
up in the last few years, which deal altogether in what are termed Occult Publications, and new 
works are published almost weekly. The demand for such publications is becoming almost 
universal, and within a few years there will scarcely be a respectable newspaper in the United 
States or Canada, which will not have an Astrological or Horoscope column. And experts and 
reliable Astrologers who are first in the market, will receive the most benefit. 

Further on in this volume I shall refer to the Astrological influence which is operating in the 
heavens at the present time, and which is causing this craving in the human mind for Astrology, 
TheosoDhv. and kindred science ; also for works of fiction which treat on Occult subjects. 



l62 ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 

4th and also of the 9th. The native will at times be seriously afflicted 
by a tightness of the chest, and palpitation of the heart, and will also 
suffer from some weakness of the stomach and intestines, especially the 
lower part. Mars being lord of the 9th, which indicates science, and 
lord of the 4th (the end of all things), and Saturn lord of the 7th 
house, which indicates the physician, and Saturn and Mars being in 
square aspect to each other, shows that there is great danger of the native 
having her life shortened by her physician. She must never employ a 
tall, slender, dark complexioned doctor, especially if he has a thin face, 
high forehead, small dark eyes, and black hair (indicated by *> in n, 
and $ in TT£), unless she wants to die young. But the Sun "the giver 
of life," unafflicted and strong by being in good aspect to Mars and the 
Moon, indicates that possibly by some good luck or by means of friends, 
she may avoid those misfortunes referred to above, especially as the Sun 
is in the 1 ith house (the house of friends), and in good aspect to Mars, 
lord of the 4th house (the house of the native's residence). It is 
possible she may be so guarded by her friends, that she may live to old 
age, but, at the same time, there will often be danger, especially when 
she has evil aspects in operation in her nativity. 

\th. — Riches and Poverty. 

This young lady will have many changes in life on account of Mars 
being on the cusp of the 2d house, in square to Saturn in the midheaven, 
and Mercury lord of the second in square to Uranus in the second. I 
will state the various periods when those unfortunate events will occur, 
when I come to treat on the various contingencies and events of life • 
will only state here that her first husband will generally be the cause of 
of her low circumstances, on account of his own misfortunes and 
extravagance. 

5 th. — Mental A bilities. 

The mental qualities are chiefly governed by Mercury, and the pro- 
pensities and passions are chiefly governed by the Moon, Mercury being 
in the sign Gemini, its own sign, indicates that she will be of very good 
intellect and will learn rapidly, and make a very good scholar, although 
she will be eccentric, and it will be very difficult for her to apply her 
mind long at a time to any one subject, yet she will be a good speaker 
and writer, and would succeed as an authoress, especially writing books 
similiar to those of F. Marion Crawford and H. Rider Haggard. This 
is indicated by the square of Mercury and Uranus, which will make her 
very fond of such subjects. She will maintain a good moral reputation, 
this is indicated by the Moon making a trine aspect to the Sun, and the 
Sun being her ruling planet ; even the Moon in square to Jupiter would 
give her good moral tendencies, but at times make her gloomy aid 
despondent on account of Jupiter being in the 12th house (the house of 
sorrow), and also lord of the 8th house, (or house of death.) 

6th. — Disposition and Temper. 
She will generally have a good natured disposition, but at times of a 
domineering tendency, as those born unau . Sun always wr.nt to 



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control others; will but seldom get into bad tempers, on account of the 
Sun being unafflicted in the llth house (the house of hopes); she will 
generally be of a cheerful and hopeful tendency, out at odd times slightly 
gloomy and despondent. 

jth. — Business and Honor. 

It is doubtful about her succeeding in business, except writing or 
teaching, as Saturn being in the 10th house (the house of business), and 
in square to Mars on the cusp of the second ; she would lose money by 
any business she would undertake. She will be particularly unfortunate 
in keeping a restaurant, hotel, store, or boarding-house, this is indicated 
by Saturn lord of the 6th and 7th, and also lord of the intercepted 
sign in the 5th, afflicting the midheaven and being in square to Mars, 
afflicting the 2d house; and also by Jupiter, lord of the 5th being in the 
1 2th in square to the Moon. The Moon is always co-significator, if not 
the only signincator. 

St/i. — Friends and Enemies. 

Mercury lord of the llth house in the 11th in Gemini; the Sun 
and Venus also there, indicates that she will have many prominent 
friends, but they will seldom continue to be good friends long, as Mer- 
cury is in square to Uranus, which makes them fickle and uncertain ; 
also the Moon being lady of the intercepting sign Cancer, being in the 
sign Scorpio which is naturally a treacherous sign, being in square to 
Jupiter in the 12th house (the house of sorrow and trouble), indicates 
that a number of her friends will turn into secret enemies, also she is 
liable to lose a number of her friends by death, as Jupiter is lord of the 
8th house (the house of death). She will have more enduring friends 
of the female sex, rather than the male sex; as Venus is in the 11th, in 
Cancer, in good aspect to Neptune in Taurus in the midheaven, and 
Venus is also in good aspect to Uranus in the 2d. Her male friends are 
much more likely to be treacherous than her female friends, and also sht 
is more liable to lose money by her male friends, on account of Mercury 
a masculine planet in the llth house, being in square to Uranus in thi 
2d house (the house of money). 

gt/i and \oth. — Morals and Religion — Relations and Journeys. 

This lady will be of rather skeptical turn of mind, especially on 
religious subjects, as Mars is lord of the 9th, and is afflicted by a square 
of Saturn; but the Sun, her planet, being in good aspect to Mars, causes 
her to be of a good moral tendency, and not any way vicious, but 
inclined to be honorable in her dealings : as all persons born under the 
Sun are, especially when the Sun is not afflicted. This lady will be very 
fortunate in regard to near relations, and also neighbors; Venus is ladv 
of the 3d house (the house of relations and neighbors), unafflicted in 
the llth house, and in good aspect to Neptune and Uranus, indicates 
that her neighbors and near relations will generally be her best friends, 
it also indicates that she will be fortunate in short journeys, but not 
fortunate in long journ.--." -specially in money maticrs, as Mars lord of 



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the 9th is afflicting the 2d, and is in square to Saturn in the midheaven. 
This aspect will make her very unfortunate in lawsuits, especially any- 
thing connected with church matters; her enemies will generally be of a 
religious tendency or very pious. 

1 1 th. — Marriage. 

This lady will be unfortunate in her first marriage, and great danger 
that she will separate from her husband, or he leaves her, any way it is 
not a fortunate marriage, and it will cause her much unhappiness. 

298 In all female horoscopes, we first see what aspect 
and what planet the Sun first applies to, and whether that 
aspect is a fortunate aspect, and that planet a fortunate 
planet. If the Sun first makes an evil aspect of an evil 
planet, say to a conjunction, square or opposition, of either 
T <> or £ , then that female, if she marries, will have an un- 
happy married life, especially if there are evil planets in the 
7th house (the house of marriage), or evil planets aspecting 
the 7 th house, or if the lord of the 7th house is an evil 
planet, and is any way afflicted by evil aspects, especially by 
being in square or opposition to \ or £ . 

299 But if the Sun applies to a good aspect of a fortunate 
planet, say to a conjunction, sextile, or trine of $ or 2£, 
especially if 11 or $ be in the 7th house, or in good aspect to 
the 7th house, or a fortunate planet is lord of the 7th house, 
then that female lives happy in her married life with her first 
husband. 

300 We jvdg^ Je horoscopes, in regard to marriage, by 
the aspect the Moon makes, and not the aspects of the Sun, 
as in female horoscopes. If the Moon in a male horoscope 
makes a good aspect of a fortunate planet, say 11 or $ , 
especially if- there are any fortunate planets in the 7th house 
(the house of marriage), or % or $ is lord or lady of the 7th 
house, then that male, if he marries, lives happily in married 
life. But if the Moon first makes an evil aspect of an un- 
fortunate planet, say ^ or £ , and if *> or £ is lord of the 
7th house, or in evil aspect to the 7th house, or if the lord 
of the 7 th house is afflicted by an unfortunate planet, then 
that male, if he marries, is unfortunate in married life, or 
they separate soon after marriage; but sometimes the wife 
dies shortly after marriage, or they do not have any children, 
and much unhappiness in the family is caused on that 
account. 

301 Those aspects in a female's nativity which the Sun 
makes either good or evil, to either f , 1$ or the J) are not to 
be noticed, as she never or hardly ever marries the person 
described by those planets ; she *v T ill probably keep company 



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with persons described by those planets; and if the Sun 
makes evil aspects to them, either conjunction, square, or 
opposition, the native may meet much unhappiness, if not 
disgrace by the persons described by those planets. The 
same rule applies in male horoscopes when the } is making 
aspects of either f , 1§L, or the ; but the native does not 
marry the lady described by those planets. 

302 To find out the personal description in a female's horo- 
scope of the parties that the native will keep company with, 
and not marry, in addition to those already mentioned, see 
what aspect the Sun is leaving in a female's horoscope, and 
that planet in the sign describes the parties she keeps company 
with and does not marry ; also see whether any evil planets 
be in the 7th house, or the Moon is making or separating 
from any aspect of any planet, and those planets describe the 
gentleman she keeps company with and does not marry. 

303 To find out the description of the ladies in a male's horo- 
scope that the native will keep company with, see what aspect 
and what planet the Moon is separating from, and those 
planets will describe the ladies the native keeps company with 
but does not marry ; also notice what planets, especially evil 
ones, are in the 7 th house. 

304 When the Sun in a female's horoscope, or the Moon in a 
male's horoscope, makes a square or opposition of evil planets, 
especially if lord of the ascendant be making a square or 
opposition of the lord of the 7 th, very often the native never 
marries, or if he or she does, they are vejgj ljkely to separate 
soon after marriage. 

305 The first planet that the Sun applies to, by aspect, in a 
female's horoscope, describes the first husband of the native. 
If the native marries a second time, then the second planet 
that the Sun applies to by aspect, describes the second 
husband. The third planet the Sun applies to describes the 
third husband of the native, if she marries so many times, 
and so in regard to the fourth planet, etc. 

306 The first planet that the Moon applies to by aspect 
describes the first wife of the native in a male's horoscope. 
And the second planet that the Moon applies to by aspect 
describes the second wife, if he marries a second time, and 
so on. 

307 The same rules apply in regard to the aspects and 
planets that the Sun or Moon applies to in female or male 
horoscopes, in reference to fortunate and unfortunate planets, 
and good or evil aspects, etc. , in regard to the second or third 
marriage, that it does in the first marriage, and whether they 
live happy or unhappy in tLe second or third marriage, etc. ' 



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308 When nearly all the planets are rising or oriental, espec- 
ially O, 2f and $ , the native generally marries early in life, 
but if nearly all the planets are setting or occidental, the native 
is almost certain to marry late in life, if they marry at all, or 
to persons much younger than themselves. 

309 If in a lady's horoscope the Sun makes a good aspect of 
an evil planet, or in a gentleman's horoscope the Moon makes 
a good aspect of an evil planet, or viee versa, then the parties 
may not separate, but often have much unhappiness, or in some 
cases what are termed love spats ; and by seeing what house 
the planet is lord of that afflicts, it can often be pointed out 
from what cause the unhappiness will arise, whether jealousy, 
mother-in-law, sister-in-law, brother-in-law, religion, pov- 
erty, etc. 

In this lady's horoscope the Sun makes a good aspect of an evil planet 
(Mars), and Mars is afflicted, by a square of Saturn, and also Saturn is 
lord, of the 7th house (the house of marriage); therefore, although the 
Sun makes a good, aspect, yet Mars being an evil planet and so afflicted, 
it will not be a happy marriage, as he will be very jealous, suspicious, 
unfortunate, and often commence rash or unreasonable undertakings. 
He will be very willful, stubborn, and generally keep her poor. He 
may be killed, commit suicide, or die of some violent fever ; they will 
be far from being happy. She marries a second time, and the Sun next 
makes a conjunction of Venus in the 11th house, and that being a for- 
tunate planet and a fortunate aspect, she will live happy. He will be 
refined, intelligent, and of a good-natured disposition, as Venus is in 
good aspect to Neptune in the midheaven, and also Uranus in the 2d 
house (the house of money); therefore, she will improve her circum- 
stances by her second marriage. But before ^the Sun makes the conjunc- 
tion of Venus, it makes a sextile of Neptune in the midheaven, and also 
a sextile of Uranus in the 2d house. She will keep company with 
gentlemen described by Neptune in Taurus in the midheaven, and 
Uranus in Virgo, during her widowhood, but will not marry either, as 
neither a man nor woman hardly ever marries a person described by either 
Neptune or Uranus, but keeps company with those persons; but if 
they do marry them, which is very seldom, they always make short, 
unhappy marriages. In a lady's horoscope, they keep company with par- 
ties before marriage, that the Sun is separating from and not applying to, 
but never marry them ; the Sun is not separating from any planet 
except the Moon. In this nativity the Moon is making a square of 
Jupiter in the 12th house, she will keep company with the gentleman 
described by Jupiter in Leo, previous to her first marriage, and will have 
much sorrow and unhappiness caused by that gentleman, and he is very 
likely to die early in life, or possibly before the lady marries her first 
husband, as Jupiter is lord of the 8th house (the house of death) and is 
in the 6th house (the house of sickness), from the 7th house; there is 
great danger of this lady meeting with disgrace from this gentleman 



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described by Jupiter in Leo, as he will pretend to be very pious and 
religious ; this threatened disgrace is indicated mostly by Jupiter being 
lord of the 5 th house (the house of children and pleasure), afflicting the 
Moon in Scorpio, which governs the sexual organs. Her friends may 
possibly prevent the disgrace, especially if they are forewarned. 

12th. — The Age when Married. 

This horoscope does not indicate an early marriage, although she will 
be engaged at 19, and will come near marrying, but it will be a serious 
disappointment ; this is indicated by the Sun being in aspect to Mars ; 
she will meet with, another serious disappointment at 2 1 ; that gentleman 
may die and cause her much unhappiness, she is almost certain to marry 
when 23. I may refer to this matter again in the " various contingencies 
and events of life." 

1 ith. — Children. 

This horoscope is unfortunate for children, and she will only have a 
small family; it is extremely doubtful about her having more than one 
or two children, or three at the most, and the probabilities are, that she 
may not have any to live to maturity. Jupiter lord of the 5th house and 
also lord of the 8th (an evil house), and in square to the Moon, her co- 
significator, and the Moon is afflicted in the sign Scorpio (which governs 
the lower part of the body), also Saturn lord of an intercepted sign in the 
5th house is in square to Mars, which will cause her to suffer in health 
when carrying children, and also cause miscarriages, as Virgo rules the 
abdomen. Should she have any children to grow up, they will be a 
world of sorrow and trouble to her. 

\\th. — Health. 

This lady will generally enjoy fair health, but will at times have 
severe attacks of sickness, especially during gestation, on account of 
Saturn being in square to Mars in Virgo; and the Moon in Scorpio in 
square to Jupiter; but the "giver of life" unafflicted, indicates that she 
has a good constitution, and will readily recover from sickness, or at least 
will not remain sick for a long period at one time. 

1 5//?. — The Various Contingencies and Events of Life. 
These are judged, first, by examining closely all the positions of the 
planets in the horoscope, and seeing which evil aspects will have the 
most effect in the person's life and on their constitution, and also seeing 
what fortunate aspects we can rely on to benefit the native in the 
different periods of her life. 

There are three kinds of aspects or directions, as they are sometimes 
called, which control the various events of a person's life. The first are 
the transits, the second are secondary directions, and the third are the 
primary directions. The planets Saturn and Jupiter are the main planets 
to relv on for transits in most horoscopes, and especially when Saturn 
is afflicted by an evil aspect of an another planet, and when that 



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other planet is an unfortunate planet, as it is in the horoscope of 
Mrs. Maud S.'s daughter. She has Saturn in the niidheaven in square 
to Mars, on the cusp of the 2d house ; therefore, Saturn in passing 
around the heavens in its revolutions, will every j\ years form an evil 
aspect to its own place and to Mars' place. Saturn takes 29 and nearly 
one-half years to make one revolution around the heavens. Therefore, 
when she is 7^ years of age, it will be in conjuction with Mars' place and 
in square to its own place; at 14^, it will be in opposition to its own 
place and in square to Mars' place ; at 22, it will be in square to its own 
place and in opposition to Mars' place ; at zg\ years it will be transiting 
over its own place, and also in the midheaven and in square again to 
Mars' place ; at the same time forming evil aspects to all the four angles 
of the horoscope, which is equivalent to striking four blows at one time, 
and as it will be in conjunction with Mars and afflicting the ascendant, in 
opposition to the 7th house, and in square to the midheaven and the 
4th house ; therefore, besides afflicting Mars' place and in square to its 
own place, it is afflicting all four angles of the horoscope at the same 
time. These are termed very evil aspects. 

The effect of these transits as they are termed, and also their influ- 
ence on the native's life and health, are beyond our power to explain. 
Although all these planets and the Sun and Moon, at 7 years of age will 
be millions and millions of miles away from the positions they were 
in when Mrs. Maud S.'s daughter was born ; yet whenever those planets 
in their revolutions come in evil aspect to the radical places of those 
planets, she is bound to feel their evil influence in some way, especially 
if there are no good aspects of fortunate planets in operation at the same 
time. 

Sometimes an evil direction or transit of Saturn will cause the native 
to be very ill ; at another time will cause an accident ; at another time 
a near relation or parent will be very sick or die ; another time losses in 
money matters ; another time it may bring lawsuits, domestic unhappi- 
ness, quarrels with relations or separation of man and wife. 

Saturn afflicting its own place and Mars' place, when it forms those 
evil aspects, will also in a short time after each of those periods afflict 
Mercury's and Uranus' places, every y\ years, and also what is termed 
the " Part of Fortune," which influences her money matters ; as the 
planet Uranus is afflicting the 2d house, and is in square to the " Part 
of Fortune," on the cusp of the 5th house, and is also in square to 
Mercury in the 11th house (the house of friends). 

In addition to those evil influences which Saturn causes every 7J 
years during its revolution around the heavens, there will be evil aspects to 
other planets which it will form ; for instance, it will make a conjunction 
of Jupiter's place in the 12th house (the house of sorrow), and be in 
square to the Moon, the co-significator, when she is 4J years old, and 
then every j\ years after that age, it will form the conjunction, square 
and opposition of those places again. For instance, at 12, 19^, 27 and 
so on, as long as she lives. 



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In addition to the evil aspects of Saturn to those various planets 
mentioned above, we shall have to notice particularly in this horoscope, 
the evil aspects of Mars to its own radical place and to the various other 
planets, in its revolutions around the heavens, on account of it being in 
evil aspect to Saturn in the midheaven at birth, and on account of Mars 
afflicting the 2d house. For instance, Mars came to a square of its own 
place on September 12, 1896, and to a conjunction of Saturn's place 
on September 17th, and then to an opposition of "Part of Fortune" 
on October 1st, a square of Uranus' place on October 5th, and a 
conjunction of Mercury's place on October 20th, and it continued near 
a conjunction of Mercury's place until November 13th. It turned 
retrograde on November 3d, and reallv continued to afflict all those 
positions of the planets until March 20, 1897. During all this time, if 
she had been a woman, she would have had serious mental trouble, losses 
of money, and treachery of false friends, or some kind of evil reports 
circulated; but as she is only a girl of about 12 years old at this time, 
it is more than likely that her parents might have had much trouble and 
worry. Also, if Uranus or Neptune afflicts any of those places of the 
planets at the time of birth, she is bound to feel the evil effects, and 
even if Jupiter remains any length of time (on account of its retrograde 
motion), in evil aspect to the Moon's or its own place, she will feel the 
evil influence. 

This young ladv's good fortune will be caused chiefly by the good 
aspects of Jupiter, Venus and the Sun, on account of those planets all 
rising, and also by Neptune in the midheaven being in good aspect to 
Venus and Uranus. To calculate those directions and transits all out, 
would take up too much space in this volume, therefore, I leave it for 
the young student to practice on. 

The student should bear in mind that Jupiter takes nearly 12 years 
to go around the heavens ; therefore, when she is one year and three 
months old, it was in conjunction, which is a good aspect, to the Sun's 
place, which would be a benefit ; and within a few months afterward it 
was in conjunction with Mars' place. Uranus takes 84 years to go 
around the heavens, and 7 years to travel through one sign. Neptune 
takes about 160 years to go around the heavens, or 14 years to travel 
through one sign. 

Besides the revolutions of the planets, we also notice what are termed 
the Secondary Directions ; these are the aspects which the Sun and 
Moon and planets form with each other ; and each day after birth is 
reckoned a year in time of the native's life. For instance, on July 6, 
1884, or four days after the child's birth, Mars came to a square of 
Saturn's place, therefore, at 4 years of age, it was a very evil time for 
that child, especially in regard to sickness, and also evil to the father, as 
Saturn always indicates the father. On July 7, 1884, the Sun came to 
a sextile aspect of Mars by secondary direction, and, therefore, at 5 years 
of age it would be a fortunate period for that child ; its health would 
be good, and something favorable would occur for its parents, particu- 
larly the father, as the Sun also indicates the father in a child's horoscope, 



1 JO ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 

and so on for the other planets. In addition to those aspects, there are 
what are termed Primary Directions, which we have to notice. These 
are reckoned by every degree in the longitude of the planets, as being 
equal to one year in the child's life. For instance, Uranus is 4. degrees 
from a square of Mercury's place, therefore, at 4. years of age it would 
be an evil period for the child, and there being an evil secondary direc- 
tion that came up for that year, it would intensify that secondary evil 
direction. Those primary directions are reckoned both by what are 
termed Direct, and also what are termed Converse Directions, that is, 
they are both noticed when the planets are applying to the aspect, and 
also when they are leaving any aspect. For instance, Jupiter is one 
degree past a square of the Moon, and by converse directions, it would 
be an evil period for the child at one year of age, as Jupiter will come 
to a square of the Moon, the co-significator, by converse directions, it 
being very near one degree from that aspect. 

Besides those unfavorable periods mentioned on page 39, I will men- 
tion that at 19 years of age, *> will be transiting in her 6th house in 
square to the moon and in opposition to Jupiter; it will produce poor 
health for herself, sickness or death for her mother or for some female 
relation; also, as & is in aspect to the Sun at birth, she will have some 
serious unhappiness in love affairs at that time, as 19 years is what is 
termed the period of $ . (I shall refer to these periods further on in 
this volume. ) She will also have another unhappy time at 21, and 
another serious unpleasantness in love matters, very likely some disaster 
in her money affairs, or may meet with very heavy losses, or serious law 
trouble that will threaten poverty, and possibly death ot an old relation 
or a near friend. It will be a very unfavorable time for her to marry 
then, and the marriage would bring her much unhappiness. This is 
shown by *> coming to a square of its own place, in opposition to £ , 
and then in oppoition to W an d to a square of ©. If she takes a long 
voyage, she will suffer from stormy weather and be threatened with ship- 
wreck or some serious disaster. At 27 ysars of age "^ will be transiting 
near the midheaven in opposition to the Moon, and in square to 2£. 
This period will bring poor health and much unhappiness, and if married, 
domestic unhappiness and great danger of separation. Marked evil 
periods at 29 and 30, as *? will then be transiting over its own place in 
the midheaven, in square to $ on the cusp of the 2d, and also coming 
to a square of J$ in the 2d (the house of money), and in opposition to 
©. This will be the most disastrous period she will have until she gets 
to be near 59 years old ; during this period her health will be poor, 
sickness, if not death in her family, heavy losses, and much domestic 
unhappiness, probably connected with a lawsuit, or might be a divorce, if 
married, she is almost certain to be parted in some way from her husband. 

In addition to transits, primary and secondary directions, there are 
what are termed parallels, that is, when two planets have the same 
declinations, it is called a parallel, the same as if one planet has the 
same declination of either the Sun or the Moon. These parallels are 
like conjunctions, that is, they are good with the good planets, and evil 



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with the evil ones. In some horoscopes these declinations or parallels 
have a marked influence on the native's life, but when the declinations 
are not within orbs at birth, they do not have much influence in that 
particular nativity. In the horoscope of Mrs. Maud S.'s daughter, 
Jupiter was 18 degrees and 56 minutes in north declination on Jnly 2, 
1884, and Venus was also 18 degrees and 28 minutes in north declina- 
tion ; therefore, we call that a very close parallel, and they being the 
two most fortunate planets that are known, they would have a marked 
influence on the native's life, in producing good friends, especially female 
friends who would be of great benefit to her. These parallels would 
make this young lady much more sociable, pleasant, and agreeable in 
her manners than she would have been, if Jupiter and Venus had been 
wide apart in their declinations at her birth. The parallel is much 
stronger when both the planets have north declinations, or when both 
have south declinations, but even if one planet is north and the other is 
near the number of degrees and minutes south declination, it is still 
called a parallel ; but it is not as strong as when .both planets have north 
or both south declinations. The most evil parallels are Saturn and Mars, 
and when they have near the same declinations at birth, it makes much 
unhappiness for the native all through life, and their influence would be 
similar to a conjunction of these two evil planets. In this horoscope, 
the declinations of Saturn and Mars are over 5 degrees apart. Saturn 
1 degree and 24 minutes south, and Mars is 6 degrees and 50 minutes 
north ; therefore, they are not in what are termed orbs, and they have 
but little influence in this child's horoscope. 

In the second volume of this work, I shall give special direction by 
the rules of Trigonometry and Logarithms, how to calculate what are 
termed the primary directions, parallels, etc. 

The remainder of the transits and aspects in the horoscope of Mrs. 
Maud S.'s daughter, that I have mentioned on page 39, I leave the 
student to try and trace out himself by the rules already given, as I think 
it will be good practice for him. 

I will conclude this horoscope by mentioning a curious circumstance 
which occurred' lately at Scranton, Pa., and which was told to me by 
Mr. E. T. Sweet, the night editor of the Scranton Tribune. He said : 
" They wrote up and published in their paper a number of fictitious 
horoscopes of leading politicians of their town, and associated them 
wkh those individuals' time of birth." These horoscopes attracted 
uch attention, and were read extensively, but in order that the writer 

ht become familiar with certain Astrological names, or what are called 
technical terms, he borrowed Lilly's Astrology, by Zadkiel, out of the 
Public Library, and commenced reading the book with that object in 
view, never dreaming that there was any truth in the science ; but as he 
went on reading, he began to find out that Astrology was a true science 
and instead of " concocting horoscopes," as the editor of the New York 
Times calls it, he commenced to study Astrology in a systematic manner, 
and wrote to me to procure for him a number of Astrological books, in 



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172 ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 

addition to those I had already published. I cannot but think, that if the 
editor of the New York Times was to commence studying Astrology, he 
would soon find that what he called a " debasing superstition," was, 
in reality, one of the most beneficial and useful sciences that is known 
to man, and that he was speaking a greater truth than he was aware of 
in regard to himself, and other christian editors, when writing about 
the "mournful incompleteness of modern civilization and education." 

I have gone more into particulars in the foregoing horoscope than I 
had intended, and it is much longer than any others in the following 
pages ; but as the editor of the New York Times appeared to think 
there was nothing whatever in Astrology, only what the Astrologer 
concocts, I thought it best to give a few of the principles and rules that 
Astrologers go by in calculating horoscopes. And should Mrs. Maud S. 
ever read this horoscope of her daughter, I cannot but think that she 
will admit that every paragraph that I have published is absolutely cor- 
rect, and that if she follows the directions and advice herein given, it 
may save her daughter and herself much unhappiness, if not disgrace. 
Although in some respects her daughter's horoscope is somewhat marked, 
yet those evil influences pointed in the girl's nativity are not entirely 
inevitable, as those directions and aspects were in the horoscope of 
Charles Dryden, as calculated by his father. 

We sometimes meet with horoscopes where the position of the planets 
in relation to each other, or what are termed aspects, are so striking or 
marked that the native becomes almost like inert matter, that is, entirely 
controlled by natural laws, or like a cork on water subject to the wind 
and tides, and has no will of his own. In such cases, the rules and 
principles of Astrology become like the laws of the Medes and Persians, 
which cannot be altered. 

I cannot impress too strongly on the mind of the student the import- 
ance of being familiar with the nature and description of the houses, 
signs and planets, and their relation to each other. If he has all these 
well impressed upon his mind, he will find his work comparatively easy 
in studying Astrology. At first he will find some difficulty in tracing 
the transits or revolutions of the planets through the signs of the Zodiac, 
and through the different houses, especially to the angles ; and also to 
the aspects and conjunctions of the radical positions of the Sun, Moon 
and planets at birth ; and, at the same time, calculate the secondary 
directions, also the primary directions, and combine the whole ; pre- 
dicting correctly their effects on the events and contingencies of the 
native's life. In addition to the above, he will have to know how to 
calculate Revolutions. This is done by first calculating the exact degree, 
minute and second that the Sun was in at birth ; then calculate when 
it arrives in any particular year, in the same sign, and the same degree, 
minute and second; then erect a chart of the heavens for that time; 
that is called the Revolution for that year. 

If the student does not become familiar with all the elements of the 
science, he is very similar to a person making calculations in arithmetic 
who has not become familiar with the elementary branch of that science. 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 1 73 

For instance, if he wanted to multiply a row of figures by any particular 
number, and every time he attempted to multiply a figure by another 
figure, he had to commence with the multiplication table — twice l is 2, 
twice 2 is 4, until he arrived at the multiplication of those two particular 
figures, he would be a long time getting through, and the chances are 
th?t it would not be correct, even after he thought he had completed 
the example. 

I once heard of a woman who received a love-letter when a girl, and 
she preserved it until she was over 70 years old, and it became yellow 
with age, and soiled with handling, still she would put on her spectacles 
and read it, and commence, " M-y, my; d-e-a-r, dear, My dear, 1-o-v-e, 
love, My dear love," and so she kept on until she got through the whole 
letter, and never learned to read it right along. Had this woman learned 
to spell, read and write properly when she was young, she would have 
then commenced reading and gone right on without any hesitation until 
she got to the end ; and would have read it with more satisfaction, than 
having to spell each word and repeat each word and sentence. So any 
person who learns the elements of Astrology properly, that is, the nature 
of the houses, the signs, the planets, and the aspects, will commence 
reading a horoscope with the same facility that a person reads a page in 
a book in a known language ; not only that, but if he knows abso- 
lutely that the time of birth is correct, or that the time he has set a 
horoscope for, on special business, is the correct time, he knows then 
that what he is reading will be all true and correct, as the planets do 
not lie — whereas the page in the book might be all fiction or untruths 
from beginning to end. 

As the student progresses, he will be astonished at the exact truth and 
correctness of Astrology, and wonder how the ancients could have 
collected so many facts and rules, especially when he comes across horo- 
scopes that are not what is termed complicated. For instance, a horoscope 
of a person born under Jupiter in Saggittary, with Jupiter and the Moon 
both in the same sign in the ascendant, and not in aspect to any other 
planet, or any other planet aspecting the ascendant. When the student 
meets with a horoscope of that kind, he not only can describe that 
person accurately, either verbally or in writing; but if the student is 
anything of an artist, he can draw almost an exact picture of that person; 
describe how he will look when a young man at the age of 24 ; give the 
color of the hair and eyes, or any particular striking features, and the 
height and build, even before the native is a month old ; not only that, 
but he can give a correct description of the lady that he will marry, or 
whether they will live happy or unhappy, also the kind of business that 
he would succeed in. and the various talents and inclinations; his dispo- 
sition and temper, the special diseases that he will be liable to; length 
of life, and manner of death, etc. 

But in those horoscopes where what is termed the lord of the ascend- 
ant is in a tall, light sign, and the sign ascending is a stout, dark sign ; 
nd the Moon in a tall, light sign, it is much more difficult to become 

iliar with all these variations. But by constant study, he will be 



174 ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 

able to describe a person under such conflicting testimonies : but it cannot 
be done without a great deal of practical experience in the science. 

But the first thing to be done, and which is very important, is that the 
student should always find the correct positions of the signs of the Zodiac, 
and calculate the longitude of the planets correctly, and never make a 
mistake; because if he should have the position of the planets wrong in 
a horoscope, it is impossible for him to proceed without committing 
errors. The student must know already that it takes considerable 
knowledge to even calculate a map of the heavens correctly. Mr. 
Charles A. Dana, editor of the New York Sun, advises all his readers 
never to pay an Astrologer more than 25 cents, for reading or writing a 
nativity. The reader must see that it is worth 25 cents to calculate the 
horoscope, without reading or writing the same ;• and the question is, 
would Charles A. Dana like to give up his position as editor of the 
New York Sun to calculate horoscopes and write them at 25 cents each. 

It is evident that Charles A. Dana looks on Astrology in the same 
light as the editor of the New York Times. It is strange that such 
men who are generally well informed in many respects (indeed if they 
were not, they could not hold their positions), look on every kind of 
learning which they do not understand, or was not taught them in 
college, as " debasing superstition," and all those persons who do not 
think and believe as they do, they regard as "ignorant and supersti- 
tious," and they bewail the "mournful incompleteness of modern 
civilization and education," and think those persons' knowledge and 
learning to be entirely harmful in their influence on the rising genera- 
tion, and that any person practicing or teaching those sciences should 
be subject to all kinds of persecution, and the public should be taught 
to rob and injure them all they possibly can. Even ministers of the 
gospel, judges and legislators, entertain similar ideas. 

As the student advances in the noble science of Astrology, he will 
gradually begin to find that those persons who stood so high as learned 
and scientific men in his estimation, will be gradually lowered from their 
high pinnacle of scientific attainments, and the public will no longer send 
"strange problems" to be "confidentially propounded" by those "jour- 
nalists," especially when the readers find that the editors themselves do 
not know half as much on the subject as the reader himself. See p. 47c. 

The next horoscope is that of the Chinese Consul's Son, referred to on 
P a g" e 3 5- I insert this on account of it being especially good for first marriage, 
but it is also good for several marriages in succession, if he is so disposed. 
Some of my readers may think that I picked this out of several thousand 
Chinese times of birth, but this is the only one I had 5 so I bad " Hobson's 
Choice." I insert it to show the effect that Astrology has produced in the 
nativities of successive generations bv comparing horoscopes before marriage. 

The one following is Queen Victoria's. She has no patience wifh a 
divorced woman, and it is said she will not receive one at Court. No doubt 
she thinks it is every married woman's own fault if thev do not have the Sun 
apply to a good aspect of the planet Jupiter, in its own sign and lord of the 
7th house (the house of marriage) as she has. I shall endeavor, as I 
proceed, to make every horoscope either " point a moral or adorn a tale." 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 1^5 

HOROSCOPE OF THE CHINESE CONSUL'S SON. 

He was born July 25, 1895, at l A- M., No. 26 West 9th Street, 
New York City. See pages 35 and 36 of this volume. 

To calculate this child's horoscope, the student will require Raphael's 
Ephemeris for 1895, and he will see in the Ephemeris for July of 
that year, in the 3d column the heading " Sidereal Time," and on a 
line with the 25th day, 8 hours 1 1 minutes and 47 seconds. If he adds 
12 hours from noon of the previous day up to 12 o'clock night, and 
then 1 hour for 1 o'clock in the morning, he will find that it amounts 
to 21 hours and nearly 12 minutes. If he looks in the Table of Houses 
for New York City, he will find under the heading " Sidereal Time," 
the nearest figures to that amount is, 21 hours 13 minutes and 52 seconds, 
and on a line with that number in the Table of Houses, he will find 
the various signs to be written on the 10th, 11th, 12th, and the ascend- 
ant or 1st house, the 2d and 3d houses, which he will copy in the blank 
chart, with their degrees and minutes along side, and then copy the 
opposite signs which are shown on page 143. He will also copy the 
degrees and minutes which are along side the northern signs in the chart. 

Then the student will commence to insert what are called the 
planets' places ; and he will find that 1 o'clock in the morning is just 6 
hours before 7 o'clock ; therefore, he will deduct one-fourth of the degrees 
or minutes from what are marked in the Ephemeris on the 25th, which 
the planets have traveled from the 24th to the 25th at 7 o'clock in the 
morning, and the remainder is the positions of the planets in the signs 
and houses. In the horoscope he will also insert the J) 's (North) Node 
{Q>)> which he will find on the 2d page of the Ephemeris near the top 
on the right hand, and the J) 's (South) Node ( £5 ) he will place, in 
the opposite sign, giving it the same degrees and minutes. 

After the student has calculated the longitude of all the planets, and 
written them in the blank chart, then he will proceed to calculate the 
" Part of Fortune " (0). (See 292-293.) This is done by adding the 
longitude of the ascendant to the longitude of the Moon, and then from 
that subtract the longitude of the Sun, and the remainder is the longitude 
of the " Part of Fortune " ( © ). 

In making these calculation, we always count from the beginning oi 
the sign °f , and when we insert © in its proper place in the horoscope, 
we also count from the beginning of the sign T • In this horoscope c f, 
is on the cusp of the 12th house, and tf is intercepted in the 12th 
house, this makes the ascendant 2 signs, 9 degrees and 23 minutes li 
we count again from °p to the sign next to the one that the Moon is in, 
we shall find it to be 5 signs, and the Moon is 14 degrees and 25 minutes 
in*fte 6th sign : 

Ascendant, 2 signs, 9 degrees, 23 minutes, 

Moon, 5 " 14 " 25 " 

Add 7 " 23 " 48 " 



I76 ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 

Again, if the student counts trom °p next to the sign that the Sun is 
in, he will find it is 4 signs; and the Sun is 2 degrees and o minutes in 
the 5th sign ; if he subtracts 4 signs 2 degrees and o minutes from 7 
signs 23 degrees and 48 minutes, he will find the following result : 
7 signs, 23 degrees, 48 minutes, 

Subtract 4 " 02 " 00 " 



He will find that is 3 signs 21 minutes and 48 seconds, and if he 
counts from the beginning of °p to the end of the sign n, he will find 
that it is 3 whole signs, therefore, the © is 21 degrees and 48 minutes in 
the 4th sign, which is ®, and near the cusp of the 3d house.* 

The following chart is a map of the heavens for the time of birth 
of the Chinese Consul's Son, born July 25, 1895, 1 A. M., New York 
City. 

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tf\N 



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* In this volume I shall avoid, if possible, entering into any discussions or arguments with 
other Astrologers, or taking sides with those who differ among themselves, and will only train 
my guns on the public enemies of Astrology- I shall be the last one to discharge any ammunition 
on the professors of this science. But there is one part of Astrology which is technically called 
the " Part of Fortune," and which has been a bone of contention among Astrologers for bundled?, 
if not thousands, of years, that I cannot pass without giving to it a few words of explanation, and 
seeing it I ca.i reconcile those differences of opinion on thaL point. 

Mr. James Wilson in his "Astrological Dictionary," calls the '■ Part of Fortune" a "bunch 
of nothing hatched in the brain of Claudius Ptolemy," and he goes on to ridicule the idea with n uch 
sarcasm. Hut other Astrologers, such as Sibiey, and several others whose names I have forgotten, 
attach much importance to the "Part of Fortune," and regard it and its influence verv n uch in a 
similar light to what we regard the influence of what are termed the seven planets- They rot < "V 
attribute to its good or evil influence (according to its aspects) of the native's financial affairs, or 
what is termed money matters, but they also pive it the power to determine the length < f life oi the 
native, the same as the Sun or Moon, when either of them are " TTvlee," or when lh< se 'in ir;.iies 
are not posited in the " Hvlegical Places,'' and the Part of Fortune happens to be so i usher 1 lhat 
is from 5 degrees above the cusp of the ascendant to 25 degrees below ; or from 5 rVt-ree 1 eiow 
the cusp of the 7th house to 25 degrees above, and from 5 degrees below the cusp of the 9th house 
to 25 degrees below the cusp of the nth house. 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. \JJ 

[I wish to inform the student that I have written this horoscope with- 
out once referring to the text books giving the rules and principles of 
Astrologv. Similar to writing a letter without referring to the dictionary 
to see whether I have spelled each and every word correctly, or whether 
I have expressed the exact meaning of each and every word which I 
have made use of in writing the letter. It is advisable that the student 
become equally familiar with the principles and rules of this fascinating 
science, so that he can adopt the same method in reading a horoscope, 
and scarcely ever make a mistake, unless he happens to come across a 
nativity where the position of the planets and signs of the Zodiac are 
such that he has never seen anything like them before. In that case, he 
will then have to refer to the rules and principles of Astrology that have 
been laid down in the numerous text books that have been published on 
this science ; as he might refer to an English dictionary to find the exact 
spelling or meaning of a word that he had never met with.] 



This child was born under the planet Mercury ( $ ), in the sign ® 
(131), just commencing to rise, in sextile to the Moon (247) and the 
planet $ ( 2 44)> both m tne s ig n "TJZ (121-145) in the 5th house, and 
also in trine to W (209) in the sign V\, in the 6th house, with H (15) 
and f on the ascendant. All the planets are under the earth, which 
causes it to be a weak horoscope, both for health, life, and arriving at 
prominence. 

If the Part of Fortune should happen to be in any ot these positions above-named, and neither 
tli 2 Sun or the Moon are in these places, they say that in these cases the Part of Fortune is Hyleg 
or the "Giver of Life,'' and these Astrologers have given a number of illustrations of horoscopes 
to prove their assertion. I must say that I disagree with these Astrologers, and believe, from my 
own experience, that the Part of Fortune has only reference to the native's money matters or his 
financial standing. In all horoscopes which I have carefully examined whenever the Part of 
Fortune has been much afflicted by the conjunctions or evil aspects of the unfoitunate planets, 
although the native may be wealthy in the common sense of the term, yet he is generally very 
hard up for ready cash, and often meets with serious disaster or misfortune on account of not being 
able to command money on short notice But when the Part of Fortune is in good aspect to 
fortunate planets and in what are termed good houses in the native's horoscope, I have found that 
he generally keeps in easy circumstances, and has a comfortable income, and is enabled to pay his 
debts. If the Part of Fortune is very much afflicted by evil planets, or on the contrary it is in 
good aspects with the fortunata planets, and also in fortunate houses, these conditions of the native's 
money matters may have much influence on the native's life, and in some cases when very much 
afflicted, may have a tendency to shorten it. It should always be borne in mind, that when the 
native is young or in infancy, these evil aspects to his money matters generally fall on the parents 
or guardians, and so afflict the native indirectly. 

When the Part of Fortune is in cadent houses and has no aspects to any particular planet, either 
good or bad, I find that it is not worth while taking any notice of it, as in these instances it has 
very little influence in the condition of the native's life, or even in his money matters or worldly 
circumstances. 

It is only these persons who have had but little experience or practice in Astrology who wish 
to discard entirely the Part of Fortune. Although in some horoscopes it has but little influence, 
yet the student will find in others that it has a very great influence on the native's money affairs. 
I sincerely hope that the student will find in his own horoscope that the Part of Fortune is either 
in the ascendant, 2d, nth, midheaven, 7th or 5th houses, and that it is in good aspect to Jupiter, 
V "ins, the Sun and Moon. If such is the case, he will certainly find his path through life very 
much smoother and happier than the majority. 

In the horoscope of the daughter of Mrs. Maud S-, her Part of Fortune is very much afflicted 
by an opposition of Mercury, and a square of Uranus, and she will certainly feel the effect of these 
afflictions all through life. In the horoscope of the Chinese Consul's Son, the Part of Fortune is 
in conjunction with the planet Jupiter, in the sign Cancer, and Jupiter is in its exaltation ; also the 
Moon disposes of the Part of Fortune ; and the Moon is in conjunction with Venus, and both are 
in good aspect to Mercury, Jupiter and the Part of Fortune. We say in this case that the Part 
of Fortune is very strong, and well dignified by having so many good aspects, even if cadent. 

The Part of Fortune is a point which is the same distance from the ascendant that the Moon 
is from the Sun, and it is called the luminary to the ascendant. It is a'wavs under the earth, frcm 
New Moon to Full Moon, and above the earth from Full Moon to New Moon again. 



I78 ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 

Those positions of the planets will describe a person near or above 
the medium height, stands about 5 feet 7 or 8 inches; rather well built, 
but will never become stout, and will be rather slender during his early 
years ; have a rather thin or oval face, slightly high forehead ; sharp 
nose, small, dark eyes ; dark brown or black hair, and rather dark or 
muddy complexion. He will not be handsome, but will be rather good 
looking, somewhat prepossessing and talkative. The rules of Astrologv 
say (131): "He will be deceitful, changeable, and at times ill-natured 
and dishonest." But 8 in close sextile to the Moon (247) and 9 ( ? 44) 
improves his disposition, and makes the native have a refined and accom- 
plished mind ; will be neat in his person and elegant in manners ; a lover 
of music and the fine arts ; ingenious, subtle, easily learning anything to 
which he applies his mind ; inclined to be reserved, but on account of 
his extensive acquirements, he will be a pleasant companion. 

Health and Life. 

He has a rather good constitution, but will never be strong or robust, 
as the ascendant is the "Giver of Life" (see page 157), and his planet 
$ is in a weak sign (16); still there is a chance of his living to be 
rather old, but not to a great age, as the evil planet "^ is in the 6th 
house (6) (the house of sickness), and in the sign V\ (20), and in square 
to the Sun.. This aspect will make him liable to weakness of the 
kidneys, bladder, and lower part of the body, and also palpitation of the 
heart, on account of the Sun being in £\,, which governs the heart, and 
he will be liable to derangement of the stomach and liver, and nervous- 
ness on account of £ , which rules the nervous system, being weak in 
the sign ®, which sign rules the stomach and liver. 

Riches and Poverty. 

This native will never be in very low circumstances, but will always 
be rather well to do, and have wealthy relations, as 21 is on the cusp of 
the 3d house, near a sextile of the J) and $ (231-227) in the 5th 
house, and both in sextile to the native's planet £ , in the 2d house 
(the house of money). He will be fortunate with speculation, and any 
property and stocks, or values he may possess, is likely to advance. 

Trade and Profession. 

This native will never work for his living, and doubtful about his 
learning any particular trade. He would be very successful as a musician, 
actor (245 and 199), or being connected with places of amusement or 
entertainments, on account of the 5th house being so. well aspected and 
fortified by fortunate planets. He would also be fortunate in any kind 
of traveling, or being engaged on railroads, or being a traveling agent, 
or in any business that cause him to take short journeys; as the J), lady 
of the 3d house, is in good aspect to £ , % and the Part of Fortune 
(©), in the 3d house, and the J in ^ with ? in the 5th house. He 
would also be successful in keeping a store, especially selling anything 
appertaining to women's apparel, such as silks, satins, fancy articles, or 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 179 

jewelry, on account of the ^ of $ and. ^, and both in % to 8 . He 
would be fortunate as a stock broker, especially railway stocks, and, in 
that respect, might become very wealthy. He would be unfortunate in 
keeping a boarding-house, practicing law, or being a minister, as *> is 
lord of the 9th house, afflicting the 6th house, and in □ to the ©; also 
unfortunate in taking long journeys, or in lawsuits. 

Friends and Enemies. 
He will be very fortunate with friends, they will be of benefit to him, 
especially near relations, as 2£ lord of the 11th house is in his exaltation 
on the cusp of the 3d house in ^ with ©, and in good aspect to $ 
and also j) is lady of the 3d house. He will scarcely ever have any 
poor relations, or persons that he will have to assist. He will have very 
few secret or public enemies, as $ is lady of an intercepted sign 8 in 
the 11th house in ^ with the J). Would be unfortunate with servants, 
especially elderly or poor people, and also unfortunate with small animals, 
as the 6th house is afflicted by T <> in □ to 0. 

Marriage and Children. 

He will be fortunate in marriage, and will live happy ; but previous 
to marriage, he will have two or more disappointments in love affairs; one 
is indicated by a lady described by the planet £> in ® (131), as the ^) 
is leaving a ^ of £ (3°3)> an< 3 the other by a lady described by the 
planet J£l in TT[ (63). The first will be similar in appearance to himself, 
but not so tall or heavily built and lighter complexioned. The second will 
be rather thick-set, dark complexion, broad face and forehead, and older 
than himself. He marries a person indicated by the planet $ in TTg. ( 1 2 1 ). 
She will be nearly as tall as himself, slender build, have an oval face, 
round forehead, slightly dark complexion, with clear skin, and dark or 
black hair. She will be very prepossessing and agreeable in manners, 
polite and accomplished. She will also be ingenious, active, eloquent, 
and aspiring, as $ is in rf with J) (198), and both in % to ^ (243 and 
244). They will live very happily (300). Should he take a second 
wife (306), it will be very fortunate, and they will live happily. She is 
described by the planet It in 53 (83) She will not be near as tall as 
the first one, and will be slightly full built, rather pale skin, dark brown 
hair, rather plump, or round build, high forehead, and slightly full face, 
and prominent eyes. She will be very agreeable, wealthy, and most 
likely a realative, as % is in the 3d house (the house of relatives). 

His wives are very likely to have six or more children, as his horo- 
scope is very fortunate for children, especially as £> , lord of the 5th 
house, is in a fruitful sign, and the J) and $ are both in the 5th house, 
in good aspect to £ , his ruling planet. His children will be very for- 
tunate, and arrive at eminence. They are more likely to be girls than 
boys, on account of two feminine planets being in the 5th house (the 
house of children). He will probably marry when about 22 years of 
age, if not, then at 26, but it is riore likely that he will be married a 
second time, when he is 26, as it is customary in China for the wealthy 
to have more than one wife. 



l80 ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 

Fortunate and Unfortunate Periods, or the Various Contingen- 
cies and Events of Life. 

In addition to learning what to rely on in describing - the 
native, and also to find out the mental qualities, or the 
profession, trade, business or occupation that a person is 
best adapted for, together with the description of friends or 
enemies, or whether fortunate or unfortunate marriage, and 
description of the person that the native will marry, etc. 
The student must acquire the habit of instantly finding out 
in particular horoscopes, what kind of aspects or directions 
he can rely on, which causes the various contingencies 
and events in that person's life. He will find by practice 
and constant observation, that there are certain aspects in 
certain particular horoscopes, that he can always rely on in 
causing these changes or events, and which will have a marked 
effect in different periods of that person's life. 

310 If a number of the superior planets are in square or 
opposition to each other, especially Mars, Saturn and Uranus, 
and particularly if the Sun and Moon are in square or oppo- 
sition ; the student can always depend on what is called the 
transits for producing the unfortunate events in that person's 
life. 

311 When the superior planets, and particularly the Sun 
and Moon, and Jupiter and Venus are in trine or sextile to 
each other, the student can always depend upon the transits 
of Jupiter, and sometimes even of Venus or the Sun for pro- 
ducing marked fortunate periods of that person's life. 

312 If, at any time, in a horoscope of that kind, when a 
fortunate transit occurs of Jupiter, and an evil aspect or 
Saturn or Mars occur near the same time, it is very difficult 
to tell which will have the preponderance, but generally in 
such cases, if there are two good ones to one evil one, then 
the good influence will predominate, but if there are two evil 
ones to one good one, and particularly if these evil ones are 
either Saturn or Uranus, then you can depend upon the evil 
one predominating at that particular period of the native's 
life, and he will be afflicted by some particular evil, although 
sweetened by some slight favorable event. 

313 When there is no particular aspect, either sextile, 
trine, square, conjunction or opposition in the native's 
horoscope, then the secondary directions have the most 
influence in causing the various events in the different 
periods of the native's life, either good or evil. 

314 When a number of superior planets at a time of birth 
are applying by aspect to either a square, opposition, sextile, 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. l8l 

trine or conjunction, then the primary directions have gener- 
ally the most marked influence on that native's life. 

315 But when the aspects of sextile, trine, conjunction, 
square or opposition are past, at the time of birth, the prim- 
ary directions, have but little influences in that particular 
horoscope, or on the native's life. 

316 The student must always bear in mind that Jupiter 
takes very near 12 years to go -around the heavens, or one 
year to transit through one sign; therefore, these aspects, 
either good or evil, reckoned by the transits can easily be 
calculated, either to the angles or to particular planets; 
the aspects to the Sun and Moon are particularly to be 
noticed. 

317 Saturn takes a little over 29J years to go around the 
heavens, or 2 J years to transit through one sign, and the 
conjunctions, squares or opposition of Saturn must generally 
be noticed; the trine or sextile aspects of Saturn have but 
little effect; but sometimes they will bring marked good, 
especially if the nativity indicates benefit by wills or legacies. 

318 Mars takes 1 year and 10 months to go around the 
heavens, or it averages over 7 weeks to transit through one 
sign. Uranus takes 84 years to go around the heavens, or 7 
years to transit through one sign. Neptune takes nearly 14 
years to transit through one sign. 

319 The transit of Venus, Mercury and the Moon can 
scarcely be noticed in a horoscope for either good or evil, 
but the transits of the Sun are very often important, especially 
if the native has the Sun in good aspect to Jupiter, Venus 
or the Moon in the midheaven or ascendant, then near the 
birth-day it generally brings some good fortune to the native. 
For instance, I have the Sun in the midheaven at birth ; when 
ever the Sun comes around to its own place, unless some 
prominent evil aspects are in operation at the time, it gen- 
erally brings me some slight good fortune. 

320 Primary directions are aspects which occur either 
before or after birth, and the number of degrees that the 
planets have to go in order to form the aspects, correspond 
with the same number of years of the native's life. These 
directions which occur after birth, are termed direct direc- 
tions, and those which occured before birth, and when 
calculated backwards, are called converse directions. When 
a planet is in a sign of short ascension, when making an 
aspect either direct or converse, we must reckon a little less 
than a year in time for a degree in longitude, and when a 
planet is in a sign of long ascension we reckon a littlet more 
than a year for a degree. It is easy to find or notice these 



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aspects within a few years after birth, but when the native 
gets beyond 60 or 70 years of age, it takes an experienced 
astrologer to pick these aspects out and calculate them 
correctly. 

3 2 1 Secondary directions are those aspects which occur from 
day to day after birth, and each day is reckoned a year. For 
instance, the secondary directions for the first year are those 
aspects that occur in the horoscope in the first 24 hours of the 
native's life. The secondary directions for the second yea? 
occur in the horoscope in the second 24 hours of the native's 
life. In order to calculate them correctly, the student will find 
it easier to place the signs of the Zodiac in a blank chart 
the same as they were at birth, and place the original number 
of degrees and minutes along side of each sign the same 
as they were in the horoscope, and then calculate the position 
of the planets for that day, for the same hour and minute 
that the child was born, and place them on the chart the same 
as if the child had been born on the 2d or 3d day, etc. For 
example, the second year of the child's birth, he will calculate 
the position of the planets as they are 24 hours after birth, 
and place them in the chart. That is the secondary directions 
for the second year, and so on for the other days correspond- 
ing to the years all through life. 

In the horoscope of the Chinese Consul's Son, the primary directions 
and the transits will have the most marked effect in the events of his life, 
on account of Saturn being so near a square of the Sun, and the Sun 
lord of the 4th house, and Saturn in the 6th ; also Mars' primary direc- 
tions or transits will have a marked effect on account of it being in an angle 
at birth. The transits of Jupiter will have the most marked effect for 
good in this horoscope, whenever it is either in conjunction, square, 
opposition, sextile or trine to its own place, it will form good aspects to 
Venus and the Moon, and, also, generally to the planet Uranus. At 
one year old this child would have severe attacks of sickness, as the Sun 
would come by converse direction to a square of Saturn, which is one 
degree apart, also Saturn would transit over Uranus' place at birth near 
that time, but at three years of age it would have a good transit of 
Jupiter in sextile to its own place and of Mercury's place (his own 
planet), also it would be transiting over the Moon's and Venus' 
places, and in good aspect to Uranus' place. Every 7 vears this child 
will have an evil period, as it will always feel, in a marked degree, the 
square, opposition and conjunction of Saturn to its own place, and in this 
horoscope it would be in evil aspect to the Sun's place, and would soon 
afterwards form an evil aspect to Uranus' place and to a square of 
Mars' place. The most critical times for the native were when one 
year old, and again when 14 years old ; in the latter case, Saturn will 
be in opposition to its own place and in square to the Sun's place, and 
the Sun will come by primary direction to a conjunction of Uranus' 



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place, in the 6th house (the house of sickness), and Saturn lord of the 
9th house, shows danger of death by a mistake of the doctor. I will 
leave the remainder of these aspects of the native's life to be calculated 
by the student, and would advise him to read over again the last para- 
graph on page 167, and the whole of page 168, and the first paragraph 
on page 169. 

When giving judgment on a weak horoscope like the above, in order 
to assist the student to decide whether the child will live, Claudius 
Ptolemy tells us to procure the time of birth of .both parents, and if 
they both have evil horoscopes for children, then, if the child has a 
-weak horoscope, it generally dies ; but if they both have good horo- 
scopes for children, then that child with a weak horoscope generally 
lives, unless the horoscope is very weak or afflicted. 



A SYNOPSIS OF MEDICAL ASTROLOGY. 

In order to simplify the study of Astrology as much as possible, it was 
my original intention, when I laid out the plan of the parts of the Ele- 
ments of Astrology, to have deferred mentioning, or in any way describing 
any of the ailments that the human system is subject to, until the latter part 
of the volume, where I intended bringing the whole subject of diseases 
or ailments caused by planatery influence to the attention of the student, 
but, at the same time, not with any intention of making doctors or 
practitioners of medicine of the student of Astrology. But if he had any 
knowledge of medicine or had attended a medical college, he would find 
Astrology, in that case, of infinite advantage in his practice of medicine. 

As I progressed, I found it difficult to proceed without noticing, to 
some extent, the various ailments of the native, and impossible to describe 
them, without giving some general information and rules on the matter. 
Yet I shall enter more fully into Medical Astrology near the close of this 
volume. The most difficult part to overcome in this branch of As- 
trology is to modernize it, as there has been few, if any, works 
published for many years on that subject. 

Some two or three hundred years ago, there were a great many books 
published by numerous authors, treating on this subject, and some of 
them were exceedingly good, and evinced an extensive knowledge 
of Medical Astrology, and such that I cannot help but believe that 
had the medical professors at the present day an equal knowledge, 
the death rate of the people would become encouragingly less within a 
few years. I have quite a number of these works in my library. But 
they are too voluminous to be made use of in a work of this kind, where I 
intend giving only an outline of Medical Astrology, and have no inten- 
tion of writing specially for the medical profession only in an indirect 
manner. 

Some twenty years ago, Prof. Draper, of New York, published a 
long article in Harper's Magazine, which was said to have been 
delivered as a lecture before the students of a popular medical college of 
New York City, in which he took special pains to ridicule Astrology 
in connection with medicine, and gave that lecture to convince the 



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students what rapid strides the science and art of medicine had made 
within the last two hundred years. Of course he took it for granted 
that all the students he was lecturing to were equally as ignorant on 
the subject as himself, and had he not published the lecture in a popular 
periodical, it is possible that no further attention would have been given 
to the matter, but as he laid himself open to criticism by publishing the 
lecture, I think I ought not to let the matter pass without giving it some 
notice. 

Had Prof. Draper, instead of ridiculing William Lilly's Astrology 
before his students, looked into almost any book on the sciences, arts or 
professions that were published two or three hundred years ago, he 
would not have found the subjects they treated of as perfect as we find 
them at the present day. Therefore, why did he single out Astrology 
as a target above all other sciences and hold it up to public ridicule ? 
It is true, that the professors of Astrology were influenced or hampered 
by medical absurdities two or three hundred years ago, the same as 
the doctors are at the present day hampered by similar absurdities. 
If Prof. Draper had examined Astrology as taught and practiced in 
William Lilly's time, it would have compared very favorably with 
anatomy, physiology, chemistry, materia medica, surgery or obstetrics, 
as taught two or three hundred years ago. 

If he had examined medical books in those days he would have 
found the authors writing about the wind in the veins and arteries, and 
other similar complaints and diseases, and remedies recommended for 
such diseases (indeed the word arteries is derived from the word air, 
as the doctors in those days believed that nothing but air circulated in 
the arteries). Chemists would have told him all about the division of 
the elements into four, earth, air, fire and water, and also into phlogistics 
and anti-phlogistics ; besides numbers of other things too numerous 
to mention. 

Even the Astrologers were hampered by the absurdities of the Astrono- 
mers, as in those days they nearly ail believed that the earth was in the 
centre of the universe, and that the whole of the heavenly bodies revolved 
around it once in twenty-four hours, which caused day and night. 

Indeed, if we except mathematics, architecture, sculpture and painting, 
all other sciences, arts or professions were in the same boat with As- 
trology. Only that the science of Astrology was much further advanced 
than any other of the sciences, arts or professions, if we except the few 
above-mentioned, as there had been much more attention and study 
devoted to it than any of the other sciences, by astrologers and physicians 
Therefore, had Prof. Draper wished to turn the medical college into 
a comic opera house for the amusement of his students almost any other 
science or profession that was in vogue or popular two or three hundred 
years ago, would have answered his purpose much better than that of 
Astrology. If he had looked into almost any medical or surgical book 
during the time of William Lily, he would have found material for 
laughter that would have far surpassed that in Lily's Astrology. But 
if he had wanted material connected with the practice of medicine 



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to compose a farce or comic opera, he need not have gone so far back 
as the early part of the seventeenth century. Neither would he have 
had any occasion to go out of the United States for his material. Not 
one hundred years ago, he could have gone to Mount Vernon, Virginia 
(if the matter had not been too serious for jest), and have found 
all that he needed in the last sickness and death of General Washington, 
as published on page 349 in this volume. 

It may be asked why has not Astrology advanced within the last two 
or three hundred years as the other sciences ? We answer, it has 
advanced, and if it has not kept pace with the sciences above alluded to, 
the reason is that Astrology and Astrologers have endured more perse- 
cution than all the other sciences and professions combined. When the 
public became crazy on the subject of witch-craft, the professors of 
Astrology were classed with witches and wizards, and they had to 
endure similar persecution. They were betwixt the upper and nether 
mill stones, for if they predicted correctly they had dealings with 
the devil and were executed as witches, and if they were wrong in their 
predictions they were persecuted for being frauds. In short, they were 
betwixt the devil and the deep sea. Those persecutions are now dying 
out, and the people will see Astrology make as rapid advancement as 
any of the other sciences, as the public are waking up to the truth and 
importance of that science. 

Parts of the Body Ruled by the 12 houses and the 12 signs 
of the Zodiac. 

322 The 12 houses govern the various members of the 
body, the same as the 1 2 signs of the Zodiac govern them. 
The 1 st house and °p govern the head; the 2d and tf the 
neck; the 3d and n the shoulders, arms and hands; the 4th 
and ® the breast and stomach; the 5th and Si the heart and 
back ; the 6th and 7T£ the intestines, uterus and abdomen ; the 
7th and =£= the lower part of the back, kidneys and bladder; 
the 8th and TT[ the generative organs, both male and female; 
the 9th and £ the hips and thighs; the 10th and \3 the knees 
and legs; the nth and $? the ankles and lower part of the 
legs, the 12th and X the feet. 

Diseases of °p when Afflicted by Evil Planets. 

323 Denotes neuralgia of the head or face, headache, tooth- 
ache, baldness, swelling or pimples on the face, small-pox, 
gumboils, hair-lip, polypus of the throat or ear, ringworm on 
the head, fits or apoplexy, and all injuries to the head or face. 

Diseases of 8 , etc. 

324 Sore throat, diphtheria, mumps, quinsy, abscesses in 
any part of the throat or neck, scrofula, especially when 
located in the neck, tumors, discharge of phlegm or rheums, 
inflammation of the throat or falling of the pallette, etc. 



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Diseases of n , etc. 

325 Governs all diseases and accidents or infirmities of the 
arms, shoulders or hands, scrofula or impure blood, deranged 
imagination, and nervous diseases generally. 

Diseases of ®, etc. 

326 It signifies imperfections or injuries of the breast, 
nipples or stomach, weak digestion and dyspepsia of all kinds, 
cosumption or phthisic, all coughs or colds, and what are 
termed stomach coughs ; dropsical humors, tumors or cancers 
of the stomach or breast. 

Diseases -of £1 , etc. 

327 All diseases of the ribs, side, back, or heart, such as 
palpitation, trembling or pain of the heart, pleurisy, convul- 
sions, also violent burning fevers, weakness of the heart, or 
as if it were going to stop beating, sore or inflamed eyes, also 
plagues, pestilences, yellow fever and yellow jaundice. 

Diseases ofv&, etc. 

328 Rules all infirmities or weakness of the intestines, such 
as worms, wind-colic or obstructions of the bowels, diarrhoea, 
dysentery, and injuries to the intestines or abdomen ; it also 
rules the womb, and sometimes the generative organs, of 
both men and women, when any unfortunate planet is 
afflicted in this sign, especially in the 6th house. 

Diseases of =2= , etc. 

329 Governs the back or kidneys, pain or injury to the 
head, or pain of the loins, ulcers or sores, stone or gravel in 
the kidneys or bladder, and all weakness or injuries of the 
lower part of the back. 

Diseases of Til, etc. 

330 Governs all diseases of the generative organs, gravel 
or stone in the bladder, ruptures, fistulas or piles, and all 
afflictions of the private parts, either men or women ; all un- 
natural discharges, such as gonorrhce or leucorrhce, or private 
diseases, or injuries of the womb, or spermatic cord; also 
pain in the groin, ruptures, etc. 

Diseases of f , etc. 

331 Indicate the thighs or hips, and all diseases appertain- 
ing to that part of the body. It also rules fistulas, tumors, 
and all injuries affecting those parts, such as piles or 
hemorrhoids, heated blood, fever, pestilence, falls from 
horses, or hurts caused by four-footed beasts ; also injuries 
caused by fire, heat, and intemperance, or by any sports, 
such as injuries from hunting, riding, etc. 



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Diseases of V3, etc. 
332 Governs the knees and all diseases incident to those 
parts, either sprains or fractures. Is also denotes leprosy, 
itch, and cutaneous complaints, and rheumatism affecting 
the lower limbs, especially the knees. 

Diseases of w , etc. 
$$$ Governs all injuries or ailments connected with the 
legs or ankles, and all manner of infirmities incident to those 
parts, such as swollen feet and ankles, and all weaknesses of 
the ankles, also spasmodic and nervous diseases, cramps 
caused by wind, etc. 

Diseases of X , etc. 
334 Rules all diseases of the feet, such as gout and lame- 
ness, pain or weakness of the feet, swollen feet, mucous 
discharges, itch, blotches and breakings out, boils, ulcers, 
proceeding from impure blood ; colds, and disease caused by 
living in moist or damp places ; also bowel complaints, caused 
by wet, damp or cold feet. 



Diseases Caused by the Planets. 

Diseases of \§.. 

335 Uranus rules all sudden diseases, such as sudden 
deaths, cramps, fits, etc., and affects those parts of the body 
ruled by the sign that the planet happens to be in at birth ; also, 
it generally governs all accidents which befall the native, 
especially if that planet happens to be in the ascendant, 
midheaven, the 3d or 9th houses at birth. 

Diseases of *> . 

336 All diseases of the bones, complaints, ailments of the 
right ear or teeth, fever and ague, all fevers arising from 
cold or dampness, leprosy, consumption, jaundice, palsies, 
and all weaknesses and trembling; vain fears and fantasies, 
dropsy, rheumatism, gout and pains in the bones, apoplexy, 
hemorrhoids and ruptures, especially if *> be in f\[ or Si or 
in evil aspect to $ . 

Diseases of 2£. 

337 All infirmities or obstructions of the liver, pleurisies, 
inflammation of the lungs or pneumonia, or tightness of the 
chest, bronchitis palpitation and trembling of the heart, 
cramps, pains in the spine; all diseases of the veins, also 
scrofula or impure state of the blood, or fevers proceeding 
from too great an abundance thereof, such as apoplexy, etc., 
or complaints brought on by too high living or intemperance. 



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Diseases of $ . 

33& All kinds of fevers, plagues, inflammations, such as 
pestilential fevers, burning fevers, carbuncles, all plague 
sores, burnings, ringworms, blisters, insanity produced by 
rush of blood to the head, tendency to flightiness or high 
tempers, jaundice, diarrhoea or dysentery, hemorrhoids 
or fistulas, and all diseases of the gall, or of the genital 
organs of either men or women, or of the kidneys or bladder, 
almost all kinds of breakings out of the skin, and of wounds 
caused by sharp instruments, burns, scalds or fire-arms, 
small-pox or measles. 

Diseases of ©. 

339 All infirmities of the eyes, palpitation and trembling 
of the heart, nervous prostration, pimples or breaking out of 
the face, nervousness, sudden swooning, cramps, diseases of 
the mouth, impure breath, catarrh, putrid fevers and fevers 
generally, and inflammations of almost all kinds. The O 
governs in man the heart and brain, and in woman the 
emotional nature, such as hysteria, etc. 

Diseases of $ . 

340 Venus chiefly rules the kidneys, navel, abdomen, lower 
part of the body, and all the unnatural discharges of those 
parts, such as gonorrhoea, leucorrhoe, etc., and all diseases 
arising from inordinate lust, impotency, hernias, diabetes, 
dropsy, Bright's disease, or any involuntary discharge of the 
urine, etc. 

Diseases of £ . 

341 All nervous complaints or giddiness in the head, 
vertigo, lethargies, insanity, fligthiness, and all complaints 
caused by diseases of the brain, stammering and imperfection 
of speech, vain and flighty imagination, and all defects of 
memory, hoarseness, dry coughs or great abundance of spittle, 
and all sniffling in the nose, gout of the feet, foul or diseased 
tongue, and all imperfectness of the fancy or intellectual 
parts ; also mutes or the deaf and dumb, and impediments 
of speech. 

Diseases of ^ . 

342 Diseases of the left side, the bladder or generative 
organs, periods of women, dropsy, diarrhoea, and all cold 
rheumatic diseases, indigestion produced by taking cold, 
weakness or lameness of the feet, worms, injuries to the eyes, 
fits of long standing, or what is termed falling sickness; 
scrofula, convulsions, abscesses, small-pox, measles, etc. 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 1 S 9 

I have only inserted so much of Medical Astrology as 
would enable the student when reading a horoscope to get a 
general knowledge of the diseases the native would be liable 
to ; and also, the diseases he would be liable to die of. The 
complaints caused by the aspects of the planets to each other, 
and the aspects in the various signs, I defer to the latter part 
of this volume, where I treat more fully on medical astrology. 



343 In that particular sign or house, the evil planets "*> , $ 
or ]$[, are, in the horoscope, the native is certain in some 
part of his life to be afflicted in that part of the body that is 
governed by that sign and house, if the sign and house 
that the planet is in, agree; for instance, in °p and in the 
1 st house, then the head is certain to suffer more or less 
when the native is taken sick, or during evil aspects, etc. ; or 
if in ttq. and the 6th house, then the abdomen and the intes- 
tines and lower part of the body is the most affected when 
sick. If the planet is afflicted by an evil aspect in the sign 
or house by another evil planet, the native may be subject to 
that ailment or disease most of his life. But if afflicted by 
two evil planets, especially if the planet is in an unfortunate 
house (in either the 6th, 8th or 12th house), then it is very 
doubtful about the native ever being cured of that complaint. 
In my own horoscope, I have $ in the sign Capricorn, in the 
6th house in a to $ in the 10 house, and in g to the J) (my 
ruling planet) in the 1 2th house, and also applying to an g 
of ^ in the 12th, which has caused me to suffer from pain 
or rheumatism of the knees most of my life, especially if my 
health becomes poor; also to meet with several accidents 
to the knees. Had my father and I not understood As- 
trology, it is more than probable that the doctors in trying 
to cure me of rheumatism of the knees, would have so treated 
me that I should have been a cripple and going on crutches 
over thirty years ago. Yet in spite of those evil aspects, I 
am now as active on my feet as most men of my age. 



Rules to Judge the Probable Time of Marriage of the 
Native, also the Number of Children. 

344 It is very important that the student should learn some 
special rules in regard to the time of marriage of the native, 
although there are no rules that will hold good in all cases, as 
the individual horoscopes vary so much, still, with practice, 
it is astonishing how perfect an experienced astrologer can 
become in predicting the time of marriage of either a man or 
woman from their horoscope. 



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345 Claudius Ptolemy gives us one special rule which gen- 
erally can be relied upon, that is ' ' when most of the planets 
are rising or oriental, they generally produce early marriages. " 

346 "Most of the planets, occidential or setting, produce 
late marriages," and those rules are generally correct, but 
there are a number of aspects of both the Sun and Moon 
which causes variation to these rules, in both male and 
female horoscopes. 

347 When Saturn or Mars are in the 7th house (the house 
of marriage), especially if they have evil aspects, marriage 
is generally delayed, as they cause treachery and deceit in 
the lovers, and this may be one reason why the planets, when 
occidental, especially if either Saturn or Mars, produces late 
marriages. 

348 Jupiter or Venus or both in the 7th house, especially 
in good aspects, generally hastens marriage, and causes the 
native to have a number of lovers and sweethearts, and he 
generally has to marry one to get rid of all the others. It is 
especially so in female horoscopes. 

349 The Sun in a female's horoscope making an evil aspect 
to a retrograde planet, or sometimes making a good aspect 
to a retrograde planet, will often delay marriage until near 
40 years of age. 

350 In a male's horoscope, the Moon making an evil aspect 
to a retrograde planet, especially Saturn or Mars, will often 
delay marriage, and even cause the native to die an old 
bachelor. 

351 The Sun in a female's horoscope making an evil aspect 
to a retrograde planet, often causes the native to be engaged 
a number of times, and each time the marriage is broken off, 
which sometimes delays marriage until late in life. 

352 But sometimes the Sun in a female's horoscope making 
an aspect, either good or evil, to a retrograde planet, she 
sometimes marries early in life, especially if these planets are 
rising, but she generally separates soon after marriage. 

353 The rule which I have generally adopted to find out 
the time of marriage, is by looking carefully at the position 
of all the planets on the face of the horoscope, and judging 
by their positions and aspects as close as possible about what 
age the native will marry, and then calculate what particular 
fortunate aspect will come near that age, in any particular 
year or month, and often the time of marriage can be predic- 
ted in that way very correctly. 

354 Rut when a horoscope is particularly evil for marriage, 
it is very seldom that they marry under what we call fortun- 
ate aspects or directions for marriage ; and, therefore, that 



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rule cannot always be applied, but by practice and experience 
the student will generally be able to judge very close to the 
time of marriage, and also the number of marriages, by the 
above rules and those which have previously been given on 
pages 164, 165 and 166. 

Children. 

355 In judging the number of children that the 
likely to have, the student must always see whetl 
are fruitful signs on the ascendant, the 5th, 7th or 1 it] 
the nth house is the house of children, of the hu 
wife. 

356 If there are evil planets in either the 5th or nth 
house, the native has either few children or else if he 
has a large family, most of them die early in life. It gen- 
erally indicates a world of trouble causer by children. If 
the lord of the 5th house is in the 6th, 8th, 12th or 2d house, 
especially if it is an evil planet, it causes unhappiness in some 
way with children, or most of them will die. 

357 If lord of the 5th house is in a fruitful sign and in a 
good house, and in good aspects, then most of the native's 
children will live; especially if the sign of the nth house is 
a fruitful sign, and lord or lady of the 1 1 th is in a fortunate 
house in a fruitful sign ; in that case, sometimes the native 
will have 10, 12 or more children, and most of them, if not 
all, will live, and be of benefit to the native. 

In the horoscopes that follow, I shall endeav T or to point out examples 
lpoth in regard to fortunate and unfortunate marriages and the time of 
marriage and the number of times of marriage ; and also in regard to the 
number of children, and whether fortunate or unfortunate with children. 
If the student makes a number of observations of horoscopes, he will be 
able to apply the rules which I have given in almost any individual horo- 
scope that he may meet with. I might have given a number of other 
rules, but in doing so, there would be danger of complicating the matter, 
instead of making it plainer and easier to be learned. 



How to Judge if a Horoscope is Fortunate or Unfortunate. 

358 When the student commences to judge a horoscope, it 
is often advisable for him to write down all the good aspects 
of the planets; Sun and Moon in one column, and all the evil 
aspects of the planets, Sun and Moon in another column, and 
after comparing them to strike a balance. But he must 
give preponderance of influences, either good or evil, to the 
surperior planets, and notice particularly whether the evil 
planets are lords or ladies of the evil houses, and the good 
planets are lords or ladies of fortunate houses, and judge 



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accordingly. By a little experience, he will gradually become 
so familiar with horoscopes as to judge at once whether a 
horoscope is what is termed a fortunate or an unfortunate 
one, and by noticing the following rules he can judge from 
what house or direction the good or evil will come. 

359 Whenever the fortunate planets are cadent, or under 
the earth, and the evil planets are high up in the heavens, 
or in angles, you can always judge that the horoscope is 
more or less unfortunate, and the native will have a great 
many misfortunes to contend with all through life ; but more 
especially in his early years. 

360 When the fortunate planets are in angles or high up 
in the heavens, and the unfortunate planets are cadent, or 
under the earth, then you can judge that the native has a 
fortunate horoscope, and will be generally successful through 
life. 

361 When the lord or lady of the ascendant and the Sun 
and Moon are high up in the heavens at birth, especially if 
they are in good aspect to fortunate planets, and the lord of 
the 7th or 12th house are weak and afflicted, then that horo- 
scope is a fortunate one, because the native can always over- 
come his enemies and triumph in the end. 

362 When a horoscope has Jupiter, Venus, or both in the 
2d house unafflicted, then the native is generally fortunate, 
as they acquire money or this world's goods, or that which 
conquers the world. 

363 But when Saturn, Mars and Uranus are in the 2d 
house, the native is generally unfortunate, because he wastes 
his substance and is often in poverty, no matter how intelli- 
gent that man may be. 

364 If the student notices what houses the afflicting planets 
are lords of, he can generally tell the native from what quar- 
ter or parties the affliction may come, and by knowing that, 
it can often be more or less avoided. 

365 For instance, if the affliction comes from the 3d house, 
he can avoid having dealings with neighbors or near relations, 
also any business which causes him to take short journeys, etc. 

366 If from the 9th house, avoid wife's or husband's rela- 
tions, and their near neighbors ; also lawsuits and religious 
disputes, and long journeys. 

367 If from the nth house, then be especially guarded 
against false friends. 

368 If from the 12th house, avoid as much as possible 
making secret enemies, and so on, of the other houses. 



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369 Also notice what houses the planet is lord of , where 
the good influences are, and make the most of them. If 
the planet promising the good influence is lord of the 
10th house, then advise the native to follow some regular 
business indicated by that fortunate planet, or get associated 
with governors or prominent people, etc. 

370 If lord of the nth house, then friends will benefit. 

371 If lord of the 5th house, then either children, specula- 
tion or keeping a place of amusement, etc. 

372 If lord of the 6th house, then small cattle, servants, 
or keeping a boarding-house," etc., and so on of the other 
houses. 

Mental Abilities. 

373 We judge of the native's mental faculties chiefly by 
the planet Mercury, and its aspect to the Moon. 

374 If Mercury be in its own house, either Gemini or Virgo, 
it confers considerable intellect on the native, especially if it 
happens to have any aspect to the Moon, even a square or 
opposition of the Moon, is better than no aspect. 

375 But a sextile or trine aspect of Mercury and the Moon, 
if Mercury is in its own house, confers the highest order 
of abilities on the native, especially if Mercury be in the 
midheaven, the 9th, nth or the ascendant. 

376 If Mercury be in Aries, Libra, Sagittary or Aquarius, 
it confers considerable ability on the native. 

377 If Mercury be in Cancer, Leo, Scorpio, Capricorn or 
Pisces, unless it has some good aspect to a fortunate planet, 
or has, some aspect to the Moon, the native is of very inferior 
abilities, and likely to lead a plodding or servile life. 

378 If Mercury be in sextile or trine aspect to Jupiter, 
Mars, Sun or Venus, it sharpens the intellect very much, and 
the native is generally of rather good abilities. 

379 When Mercury is in Cancer, Leo, Scorpio, Capricorn 
or Pisces and in a cadent house, and no particular aspect to 
the Moon, or any of the superior planets, the native is then 
only fit for a common, plodding life, and will never amount 
to much, unless he should happen to have Jupiter in the 
ascendant or high up in the heavens, then he might be helped 
by some of his friends or surrounding circumstances. 

380 In all horoscopes the student should bear in mind, that 
he must look more to the planet Mercury for the native's 
mental abilities, than to the Moon or lord of the ascendant. 

I shall refer to the derangement of the mind, when I come 
to treat of the diseases of the body, in the latter part of the 
volume. 



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The Temper or the Animal Passions. 

381 We judge of the temper or passions of the native chiefly 
by the Moon and Mars; Mercury controls the intellectual 
nature of man, and the Moon and Mars the animal or 
passionate nature. 

382 If the Moon is in square or opposition to Mars or 
Saturn, the native will then give way to his passions, and is 
very likely to be of a violent temper and may even become 
vicious, and often get into misfortunes or even prison by his 
bad temper, unless Mercury is very well dignified and in 
good aspect. 

383 The Moon in square or opposition to the Sun, makes 
the native very stubborn and willful, and he will not take 
advice, especially if the aspect occurs in fixed signs. 

384 The Moon in square or opposition to Uranus, makes 
the native erratic, changeable, and generally he does the 
right thing at the wrong time, and the wrong thing at the 
right time, and thus goes blundering along. 

385 The Moon in square or opposition to both Saturn and 
Mars, especially from the 8th, 1 2th or 6th houses, the native 
is likely to have serious misfortunes, and meet with a violent 
death, or often be sick, or end his days in prison, unless the 
good influence of Jupiter, Venus and the Sun intervene. 

386 The Moon in sextile or trine aspect to Venus, Jupiter 
or the Sun, makes the native benevolent, kind hearted and 
affectionate, and is much opposed to causing pain to others, 
even to animals 

387 The Moon in good aspect to the Sun or Jupiter, 
especially if they are high up in the heavens, or in the 
ascendant, makes the native honorable minded, and he cannot 
be tempted to do wrong. 

388 Jupiter in the 9th, 10th, nth houses or the ascendant, 
unless it is afflicted, causes the native to take great pride in 
his reputation, and he will not do anything that will endanger 
or injure it, in any shape or manner, if he can help it. 

Profession and Trade — Riches and Poverty. 

389 Claudius Ptolemy tells us in his Tetrabiblos, that a 
man's profession or trade is controlled by the planet which 
rises the next above the Sun, but that rule has not generally 
been verified in my own experience in the practice of 
Astrology, still it might have been true two thousand years 
ago. 



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390 The native's profession or trade is chiefly governed, at 
the present day, by his mental abilities and not by the planet 
that rises above the Sun. 

391 If Mars be well dignified and strong, or in his own 
house, especially in the ascendant, 9th, 10th or nth house, or 
even the 7 th, the native is likely to excel in, or follow some 
kind of mechanical pursuit, or be connected with military 
affairs, and is also fond of inventions, and generally wants to 
be in a business of his own, and dislikes to be engaged under 
others. 

392 Mercury strong in its own house or in good aspect to 
the Moon, either in the ascendant, 9th, 10th, nth or 7th 
house, or even the 5th house, makes the native inclined to 
writing and studying, and he either becomes an author, news- 
paper editor, or is some way mixed up with writings or 
printing; and very often causes the native to be a minister 
or lawyer, and he always takes delight in literary pursuit, 
and may be a public speaker or politician. 

393 Venus well dignified in a horoscope, makes the native 
take delight and even excel in such as painting, sculpture or 
the fine arts and music, especially if Venus be strong in its 
own house, and in good aspect to the Moon, or is in the 
ascendant, 2d, 5th, 9th, 10th and nth houses. 

394 Jupiter in good aspect to superior planets, and high up 
in the heavens, in a horoscope, makes the native inclined to 
become religious, or want to hold some political position, or 
become a judge, member of the legislature or governor, 
especially if Jupiter is either in the ascendant, 2d, 9th, 10th 
or nth house. Sometimes Jupiter in the 7th house causes 
the native to be very fortunate in political pursuits, as it gen- 
erally gives him very powerful friends; but if Jupiter is 
afflicted in the 7th house, it sometimes causes him to have 
powerful enemies. 

395 The Moon strong in either the ascendant, 9th, 10th, 
nth, 2d, 3d, 5th or 7th house, generally causes the native 
to travel much, and be engaged either on the sea or become 
a traveling agent, or be in someway engaged in traveling. 

396 The Sun strong in the 9th, nth, midheaven or the 
ascendant, causes the native to be very ambitious and perse- 
vering, and generally he has other people working under him, 
than working himself, and he is generally ambitious to be 
a judge, governor, or hold some high position. 

397 Saturn strong in a horoscope or the midheaven, causes 
the native to be inclined to farming or agricultural pursuits, 
up" x ss Mercury is strong, then it causes the native to become 



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very thoughful, quiet and industrious ; although of a plod- 
ding nature, he is generally fond of literary pursuits, and is a 
plodder in that line. 

398 Uranus strong in a horoscope, causes the native to be 
very fond of inventions and discoveries; he very seldom 
follows any regular employment. When Uranus is strong in 
the ascendant, 9th, 10th, nth, 2d or 7th house, he is very 
often poor the greater part of his life, yet afterwards may 
acquire great wealth by some discovery or invention. 

399 In a horoscope where most of the planets are cadent 
or weak, the native generally spends most of his life working 
for others, or as a menial or servant. 

400 When there is no special aspect of the planets, especi- 
ally of the superior planets, then the native is generally a 
drudge or follows some menial employment. 

Business or Profession in which the Native will be Unfortunate. 

401 The student in advising the native what particular 
employment he ought not to follow, should always look well 
to the house in the horoscope that governs that employment 
he advises the native not to engage in. For instance, the 
native would be unfortunate as a minister, lawyer or sea 
captain, or any business connected with long journeys if 
there are evil planets in the 9th house, especially if they have 
evil aspects, or if the lord of the 9th house is afflicted by a 
square or opposition of Saturn or Mars, or indeed of any planet. 

402 It is unfortunate for the native to be engaged in any 
business connected with the 6th house, if that house is afflic- 
ted by evil planets, or its lord is in square or opposition to 
other planets. He would, in that case, be unfortunate in 
keeping a boarding-house, engaging servants, breeding 
small animals, or being a physician or nurse, etc. 

403 If the 5th house is afflicted, the native would be un- 
fortunate in all kinds of speculation, theatres, places of 
amusements, keeping a hotel, or being an actor or public 
speaker. 

404 If the 4th house is afflicted, the native would be un- 
fortunate in farming, mining, owning property or being a 
real estate agent, and his real estate will depreciate or meet 
with misfortunes or some kind of bad luck. 

405 If the 3d house is afflicted, then he would be unfor- 
tunate in taking short journeys, railway traveling, being a 
traveling agent, or any business connected with neighbors or 
near relations. 



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406 If the 2d house is afflicted, the native is more fortunate 
working for others than being in business for himself, and is 
less liable to meet with serious losses and misfortunes in his 
money matters. 

407 When the native has Saturn in the midheaven, especi- 
ally if it is afflicted by an evil aspect of an evil planet, he is 
always unfortunate in business for himself, and is likely 
every seven years to fail or break up in business, or at least 
to meet with very heavy losses; he is more fortunate 
engaged under others, or less liable to meet with heavy 
losses 

408 The native is unfortunate in any public business or 
where he deals much with others, who has evil planets in the 
nth house in his horoscope, as his friends are very apt to 
prove treacherous, and often swindle him ; but if the native 
has fortunate planets in the nth house, especially if they are 
in good aspect to the other planets, he will be very successful 
in any public business, such as keeping a store, hotel, or any- 
thing of that kind, providing the 5th and 6th houses are not 
afflicted. 

409 The native having evil planets in the 12th house, 
especially if they have evil aspects to other planets, his 
acquaintances and neighbors will put themselves about to do 
him an injury, even if it is no benefit to themselves. 

410 Unfortunate planets in the 7 th house, or the lord of 
the 7th house afflicted, the native is then unfortunate in any 
partnership, and should always avoid partners, if he does not, 
he will often come to grief, not from his own misfortune or 
bad conduct, but from his partner's misfortunes. 

41 1 It is better to have squares and oppositions of planets 
in a horoscope than to have no aspects, as the squares 
and oppositions certainly cause the person to have great 
energy and perseverance, and makes him determined to over- 
come obstacles and difficulties; and sometimes a person 
becomes successful with evil planets in the ascendant ; yet he 
is generally beset by oppositions most of his life, especially 
in his younger years, but he may partly overcome them after 
middle age. 

412 In any horoscope look well to the Moon before deciding 
whether it is a fortunate or unfortunate nativity; as all the 
old authors on Astrology agree in saying, ' * that it is better 
for the native to have the lord of the ascendant (or ruling 
planet) afflicted than the Moon." 



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Profession or Business in which the Native would be Fortunate. 

413 Fortunate planets in the ascendant cause the native 
to be successful as a superintendent or business manager. 
He is generally fortunate in business for himself and rises to 
prominence, and becomes quite wealthy. He dislikes work- 
ing for others, but he generally brings good fortune to his 
employer. 

414 Fortunate planets in the second, cause the native to 
become quite wealthy, especially if Jupiter and Venus are 
there, and they are in good aspect to other planets. He 
would succesd as a speculator, banker, money lender or mer- 
chant, or in any business which causes him to handle money. 

415 Fortunate planets in the third, cause the native to be 
very successful in taking short journeys, working on railroads, 
stage-coaches, as conductor or motorman ; also fortunate as a 
traveling agent or letter carrier, or in any business connected 
with short journeys. 

416 Fortunate planets in the fourth, make the native for- 
tunate in mining, real estate or as a real estate agent, farmer 
or in any way connected with lands or fruits of the earth ; he 
generally has money left him by the death of his father 
or relations, and his estate increases in value, and he generally 
becomes wealthy. 

417 Fortunate planets in the fifth, cause the native to be 
successful with theatres, places of amusement, as an actor 
or actress, keeping a hotel or store, stock or produce broker, 
and he often derives benefit from his children. 

418 Fortunate planets in the sixth, cause the native to be 
successful in keeping a boarding-house, hiring servants, or 
keeping an intelligence office; he would also be fortunate as 
a nurse or physician, or breeding small cattle. 

419 Fortunate planets in the seventh, cause the native to 
be successful in partnership, or dealing with friends; is often 
very successful as a politician, as his friends will assist him ; he 
is also fortunate in marriage, or his wife brings him wealth. 

420 Fortunate planets in the eighth, cause the native to 
be fortunate in the management of wills; as executor or 
conveyancer of property ; or being engaged as an undertaker. 

421 Fortunate planets in the ninth, cause the native to be 
successful as a minister, lawyer, embassador, or travelling 
agent, sailor, telegraph operator, or taking long journeys on 
railroads, or long voyages. 

422 Fortunate planets in the tenth, make the native very 
successful as a politician; he is likely to rise to prominence 
and become very wealthy; he is also generally successful in 



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business, and should always be engaged in some I asiness of 
his own, and never work for others, but, if he did, he would 
bring good fortune to his employer. 

423 Fortunate planets in the eleventh, give the native 
many friends, and he will be successful dealing with friends 
and they often benefit him, and he generally succeeds as a 
politician, or in any business in which he deals with the public. 

424 Fortunate planets in the twelfth, cause the native to 
succeed in anything connected with the mysterious or super- 
natural, such as a clairvoyant, spiritualist^ or as an astrologer, 
or in electricity or magnetism ; he generally makes a good 
physician. 

425 The student ought to take particular notice, whether 
the fortunate planets are lords or ladies of good houses or 
evil houses, because if the planets are lords or ladies of the 
6th, 8th or 12th house, and they are in the ascendant or mid- 
heaven, or in other houses that we call good, the native may 
receive injuries instead of benefits from the good planets, 
even if it is either Jupiter or Venus ; but if they are lords or 
ladies of good houses, strong and in good aspect, then the 
native generally succeeds in any business indicated by the 
planets, signs or houses marked in the horoscope. 

426 As this is so important a matter, I think I cannot do 
better than give a synopsis of the influence of each of the 
lords of the 12 houses, as t^0y affect each of the 12 houses 
when posited therein at birj 




The influence of the . ^ormfof the first house in each of the 

2 houses. 

427 The lord of the ascendant in the 1st house denotes long 
life, general good health and peace of mind, but if afflicted 
there by an evil aspect of an evil planet, or by the lord of 
the 6th, 8th or 12th house, it denotes the contrary, or much 
unhappiness through life. 

428 The lord of the 1st in the 2d house, the native grows 
rich by his own industry; but if weak, retrograde or afflicted 
there, it denotes want and poverty. 

429 If in the 3d house, the native will be inclined to travel, 
and often be unsettled and generally lives with his near rela- 
tions; but if afflicted there, his brethern and kindred will be 
very unkind to him and cause him most of his trouble, and 
generally be his enemies; he is also unfortunate in short 
journeys. ^ _ ^ 

430 If in the 4th house, the native is born to good position 
and inheritance from his father/or near relations, he is likely 
to become very wealthy, but if afflicted there by either lord 



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of the nth, 12th, 7th or 10th house, he will either die in 
prison or become very poor. 

431 If in the 5th house, the native will be benefitted by his 
children, be successful in speculations ; but if weak or afflicted 
by Saturn, Mars or Dragon's Tail, he will havje but few 
children, or they will die young, and they will /cause him 
unhappiness, or they will be disobedient, and he will gener- 
ally be unfortunate in his speculations and with places of 
amusement. 

432 If in the 6th house, it denotes sickness to the native, 
and he generally lives in a mean and uncomfortable manner, 
or often lives in a boarding-house ; but is likely to make a 
good physician, or be fortunate in breeding cattle if not 
afflicted, but if afflicted there, it denotes short life, and a 
great deal of vexation, trouble, sickness and poverty. 

433 If in the 7th house, the native loves the company of 
women, and goes a great deal in company, and is generally 
fortunate or benefitted by marriage, especially if well digni- 
fied there ; but if afflicted, his wife or sweetheart will be the 
cause of his ruin, and if the sign on the 7th be Scorpio, and 
evil planets afflict the 7 th house, let him beware of poicon; 
or his wife, or lovers are likely to put him in prison, and his 
partners or wife swindle him. 

434 Lord of the 1st in the 8th house, weak or afflicted, the 
native is always pensive, meloncholy, and likely to attempt 
suicide, or is often in much trouble or sorrow. It generally 
causes the native to be of short life, unless the giver of life 
is very strong. 

435 If in the 9th house, the native is fortunate with clergy- 
men, law or long voyages ; he is benefitted by strangers, and 
generally travels most of his life, or he may hold some posi- 
tion in a foreign country ; but if afflicted in the 9th, it denotes 
danger of thieves or being shipwrecked ; he is unfortunate in 
law matters, or connected with religion, and is likely to be 
an infidel or skeptic. 

436 If in the 10th honse, the native is born to great honor, 
and often arrives at eminence, and is generally successful in 
almost all kinds of business; but if afflicted in the 10th, the 
wealthy and prominent, also judges will generally injure him, 
and he is deprived of his rights, and may gain several for- 
tunes, and then be defrauded out of them. 

437 If in the nth house, the native will bring his hopes 
and expectations to perfection, and generally acquire a great 
many friends; but if afflicted there by evil aspects or is weak 
or retrograde, there is but little hope from his friends or 
acquaintances, and they often do him much harm. 



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438 If the lord of the ascendant be in the 1 2th house, the 
native will have many enemies, and likely to be partly the 
cause of his own misfortunes ; if it be weak and afflicted there, 
then there is great danger of his dying in prison, unless the 
lord of the ascendant is in its own sign, in that case he may 
escape imprisonment, but will suffer much sorrow and trouble 
through life, chiefly caused by secret enemies. 

Lord of the second in the 12 houses. 

439 The lord of the second in the 1st house, denotes that 
the native will become rich, and easily obtain wealth without 
much labor, unless it is very much afflicted in the 1st house, 
then he is liable to meet with heavy losses. 

440 The lord of the second in the 2d house, the native gets 
money by his own skill and industry ; but if afflicted there, 
he squanders money, and it easily passes through his fingers, 
and he is often threatened with poverty. 

441 Lord of the second in the 3d house, the native suffers 
losses from his brothers, neighbors or near kindred, especi- 
ally if Saturn, Mars or the Dragon's Tail are in the 3d house ; 
but if in good aspect to the lord of the 1st or 3d, then he is 
benefitted by his neighbors and relations, and in taking short 
journeys. 

442 If in the 4th house, it gives the native an estate from 
his parents, and he is generally fortunate in dealing in lands, 
mines, or being a farmer; when afflicted there, then it 
indicates the contrary. 

443 If in the 5th house, he receives profit or benefit from 
his children; is successful in speculation, keeping a hotel, 
being a public speaker or actor, or being connected with 
places of amusement; but if afflicted in the 5th house, then 
he is unfortunate, both in speculation, children and with 
places of amusement, or public speaking. 

444 If in the 6th house, the native's servants will rob him, 
run away with his goods, his cattle will be unfortunate or 
die, and he will suffer loss from his estate ; but if in good 
aspect, he may gain a fortune by the practice of medicine, 
breeding cattle, keeping a boarding-house, or derive benefit 
from his uncles and aunts. 

445 If in the 7 th house, the native is likely to gain an 
estate through his wife or by partnership, by trading or deal- 
ing with others ; the native's wife or husband may die and 
leave them property; but if the lord of the ascendant is 
afflicted in the 7th, there is danger of being swindled out of 
it even if left to them. 



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446 If in the 8th house, the native is likely to be extrava- 
gant, and easily parts with his money, but if in good aspect, 
he may gain by death or legacies, especially if the lord of the 
8th house is in good aspect to the lord of the second or first. 

447 If the lord of the 2d is in the 9th house, he will gain 
by merchandise or taking long journeys, or trading in foreign 
parts ; he would also be fortunate as a clergyman, dealing in 
books, or being connected with science, law or religion; he 
is also likely to be benefitted by his wife's kindred ; but if 
afflicted in the 9th house, danger of misfortunes and losses 
in law and by accidents in long journeys, and of being perse- 
cuted, or lose money on account of his religion, science, or 
learning. 

448 If in the 10th house, the native gains by being em- 
ployed by some nobleman, or by a person in high office; 
he is also benefitted by his mother or mother's relations, or 
his wife's father; if unaffiicted in the 10th house, he becomes 
very wealthy, but if afflicted, he loses money by law or 
judges, wealthy people, or his mother's relations. 

449 If in the nth house, the native gains considerable by 
means of his friends, or by accidental fortune or good luck, 
selling or dealing in wheat, or by speculation, or anything 
connected with the fruits of the earth, or by yearly rents ; 
but if afflicted in the nth house, the native is terribly swin- 
dled by false friends, who will rob and keep him in poor 
circumstances most of his life. 

450 If in the 12th house, the native is subject to losses by 
thieves, and being swindled by lawyers threatening imprison- 
ment, but if in good aspect to fortunate planets, he will gain 
by cattle or horses, and will be fortunate in horse-racing, or 
in such as inventions, especially with electricity or mesmer- 
ism, clairvoyance or astrology ; and he may acquire money 
by medicine. 

Lord of the third in the 12 houses. 

451 If the lord of the 3d house is in the ascendant, the 
native will be wealthier or better off than his brethren, or 
else he has none living, but if he has, they will receive 
advantages from him, and he will also be a benefit to his 
neighbors, but if the lord of the 3d house is afflicted in the 
ascendant, then his neighbors and brethren will cause him a 
world of trouble, and he will be unfortunate in traveling on 
short journeys. 

452 If in the 2d house, the native's brethren will be at 
strife with him, on account of money and property, and he is, 



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likely to lose heavily by them, especially if it is afflicted in 
the 2d house. 

453 If in the 3d house, the native's brethren will assist him ; 
he will take a great many short journeys, probably will be 
engaged in traveling most of his life ; but if afflicted in the 
3d house, he will be in low circumstances, lead a plodding, 
careful, industrious life, but often be poor. 

454 If in the 4th house, the native's brethren will endeavor 
to cheat him out of his parent's estate, especially if the lord 
of the 8th house be in the 4th house, but he is likely to accu- 
mulate property by traveling or dealing with his neighbors. 

455 If in the 5th house, the native's near relations go into 
strange countries or emigrate, and he is likely to be happy 
with his children, or they will be a benefit to him; he also 
will be fortunate in speculation unless afflicted there. 

456 If in the 6th house, the native will live unhappily with 
his brethren, and receive injuries and damages by them. 

457 If in the 7th house, unafflicted, the native will be 
fortunate in partnership, and is likely to speculate, also 
travel a great deal, and probably become very wealthy ; but 
if afflicted in the 7th house, his neighbors will make much 
trouble between him and his wife or his partners, and very 
likely to get into law difficulties,' or they separate. 

458 If in the 8th house, the native is likely to bury all his 
brethren, and he will take a journey to avoid trouble and 
false accusations. 

459 If in the 9th house, the native's brethren will travel 
into strange countries, and probably hold some prominent 
positions under the government in foreign parts, by being 
consuls, etc. ; they are also likely to become lawyers, minis- 
ters, or travel a great deal on land or on long voyages. 

460 If in the 10th house, the native's brethren will not live 
to old age, but some of them are likely to become very promi- 
nent ; and the native will gain some office under the govern- 
ment by means of a long journey. 

461 If in the nth house, the native's brethren will be his 
friends and be of much advantage to him, and through them 
he will be very prosperous and fortunate ; but if afflicted in 
the nth house, the native's brethren are likely to make him 
much worriment by becoming false friends, and probably will 
cost him a great deal of mone}^ and possibly sorrow and trouble. 

462 If in the 12th house, the native's brethren or neighbors 
will be great enemies to him and plan for his downfall, and 
very likely he will have to leave his native country on that 
account ; he will be unfortunate in traveling. 



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Lord of the fourth in the 12 houses. 

463 If the lord of the 4th house be in the ascendant, it 
denotes good for the native by tilling of land, farming, hus- 
bandry, or connected with buildings, mines, or speculating 
in mines, and he will become more eminent than any of his 
brethren; but if afflicted in the ascendant, it indicates the 
contrary. 

464 If in the 2d house, the parent's estate will fall to the 
native, especially if the lord of the 5th house be in the 2d 
house ; the native will become honorable and buy and sell 
houses or lands ; he will also be fortunate in speculation. 

465 If in the 3d house, it denotes that the native's father 
will suffer damage by the native's brethren, if not imprison- 
ment ; and if afflicted in the 3d house, the native will have 
much trouble with his brothers and sisters and near neighbors, 
as they are likely to become his secret enemies. 

466 If in the 4th house, it denotes good fortune by ancient 
men and things ; the native's father will live to be old, and 
be of great assistance to him. The native is likely to become 
quite wealthy by dealing in lands, mines or houses, etc. 

467 If in the 5th house, strong and well aspected, the 
native's father will become very wealthy, and the native will 
inherit from his father, especially if the lord of the 5th house 
is in the second ; also the native will be happy and fortunate 
with children, unless it is an evil planet or afflicted. 

468 If in the 6th house, the native will be prosperous as a 
physician, or breeding small cattle, hireing or engaging ser- 
vants, but if afflicted in the 6th house, there is great danger 
that the native will not live to old age, or that he will often 
suffer from sickness or poor health. 

469 If in the 7th house, the native will gain an estate by 
his wife, and generally be fortunate with women, also with 
partners, or with tilling the land, or with mines or farming; 
but if the lord of the 4th house is afflicted in the 7th house, 
then the native suffers much on account of his wife, and she 
may reduce him to poverty or put him in prison. 

470 If in the 8th house, the native's father will not live to 
old age ; it also denotes benefit, or the receiving of an estate 
by legacies or wills, unless it is afflicted, if so, the contrary. 

47 1 If in the 9th house, it denotes profit to the native by 
religious matters, lawsuits, taking long journeys, merchan- 
dise or trading in foreign parts ; but if afflicted in the 9th 
house, the native is likely to lose his possessions or real estate 
from treachery connected with law or corrupt judges. 



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472 If in the ioth house, the native will gain an estate by- 
being - employed by the government, or one who stands high 
in position, or a person in power, or else by having some 
public employment. 

473 If in the i ith house, the native will generally be much 
respected and benefitted by his neighbors, or persons who 
live near him, and is likely to gain some political position on 
account of their good will or friendship. 

474 If in the 12th house, the native will take long journeys, 
caused by crosses and disappointments, or the native's parents 
will have to emigrate, and he will suffer misfortunes on that 
account, and great danger of the native's father not living to 
be old, or die in prison. 

Lord of the fifth in the 12 houses. 

475 If the lord of the 5th house is in a fruitful sign in the 
ascendant, unless afflicted, the native will have many chil- 
dren; they will also love him and be of advantage to him. 
He will also be very fond of speculation, and very likely 
to be engaged in some business of that kind, or being an 
actor, or in some way connected with places of amusement. 
There is danger of his becoming a gambler. 

476 If in the 2d house, the native's children will become 
well off, especially if there are fortunate planets in the 2d 
house, and the native will have comfort in them and rejoice 
in their prosperity. 

477 If in the 3d house and well dignified, it causes profit 
to the native by short journeys, and he is very likely to travel 
much. 

478 If in the 4th house and well dignified, the native will 
inherit an estate from his parents, and he is very likely 
to become quite wealthy, and will also be fortunate in 
speculations. 

479 If in the 5th house, he will delight in music and places 
of amusement, and his children will be prosperous; he will 
also be very successful as a speculator, or a stock or produce 
broker; but if afflicted in the 5th house by evil aspects of 
unfortunate planets, it indicates the contrary. 

480 If in the 6th house, the native will be prosperous in 
dealing in small cattle, or as a physician, boarding-house 
keeper, etc., and also he will be of a mild, patient disposi- 
tion, and will endure sickness without murmuring or discon- 
tent; but there is great danger that his children will suffer 
much from sickness, even If they do not all die in infancy. 



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481 If in the 7th house and unafflicted, the native will 
live very happily with his wife, but may have some trouble 
or vexation caused by his children; he will "also be prosper- 
ous in partnership, and very likely to become quite wealthy, 
but if afflicted there, he loses by speculation, etc. 

482 If in the 8th house, the native is benefitted by legacies 
or wills, but his children are likely to die .'early in life, and 
he will have but few children to live, especially if it is afflicted 
by the lord of the 8th house. 

483 If in the 9th house, the native will have beautiful 
children, he will take much pleasure and profit in traveling 
and in long journeys; he will also be given to scientific and 
political pursuits, and receives advantages from his wife's 
relations. 

484 If in the 10th house, the native gains honor and respect 
from people in high position, and also comfort and happiness 
from his mother or his wife's father; he is also likely to be- 
come very wealthy on account of being fortunate in specu- 
lation, or an estate coming to him from his father. 

485 If in the nth house, the native will be fortunate and 
enjoy prosperity, but there is great danger that his children 
will become his public enemies, or in some way injure him, 
especially if Saturn, Mars or the Dragon's Tail are in the 
1 1 th house. 

486 If in the 12th house, his children will cause him much 
anger and sorrow, but he will be very fortunate with cattle, 
horse-racing and horses ; but if afflicted there, it may get him 
into serious trouble on account of gambling or speculation. 

Lord of the sixth in the 12 houses. 

487 The lord of the 6th house in the ascendant, the native 
generally has poor health, and is seldom strong and robust, 
especially in his early years; the nature of the sickness is 
indicated by the sign on the 6th house, and the planets in the 
6th house, and also by its lord He is generally unfortunate 
or loses by small cattle or fowls; either they die or are un- 
profitable to him; he is also unfortunate with servants. 

488 If in the 2d house, the native will generally be poor, 
often going from bad to worse; if the lord of the 2d house is 
retrograde, and in square or opposition to the lord of the 6th 
house, so much the worse; he is also unfortunate in keeping 
a boarding-house, as a phvsician or keeping small animals. 
Unless the lord of the 6th house is a fortunate planet, strong 
or in good aspect to the other planets, then it is not so evil. 



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489 If in the 3d house, the native's near relations will 
have poor health, and generally die early in life, and he will 
suffer sickness and misfortunes himself in traveling on short 
journeys, and his neighbors will not be his friends. 

490 If in the 4th house, the native's father will be unfor- 
tunate and sickly, and often in poor circumstances, and the 
native is liable to injure himself by taking improper medicine. 

491 If in the 5th house it indicates affliction to the native's 
children ; and he is likely to injure his own health by feasting 
and inordinate or lustful pleasure; he will also be unfortu- 
nate in speculation, or connected with places of amusement, 
or keeping a hotel. 

492 If in the 6th house it denotes good health to the 
native, unless it is much afflicted, and he is generally success- 
ful as a physician, keeping boarders or dealing in cattle ; but 
if afflicted, it indicates the contrary. 

493 If in the 7 th house, the native is liable to meet with 
injuries from women, and often injures his health and pocket 
by them, especially if Mars is in the 7 th house, in square 
or opposition to Venus ; it sometimes causes the wife to die 
shortly after marriage, and shows her to be of low extraction 
and to have been in poor circumstances. 

494 If in the 8th house, the native is likety to bury both 
his enemies and his servants ; also, it brings losses and mis- 
fortunes witli his wife's or partner's money; if the lord of the 
ascendant apply by a square or opposition to the lord of the 6th 
house, it denotes death to the native or his mother ; neither 
of them will live to. old age, and the native is likely to com- 
mit suicide. 

495 If in the 9th house, the native will live unhappily 
with his wife's relations and their neighbors, and the wife's 
brothers and sisters will be very much opposed to him, and 
there is danger that the native will often be sick while travel- 
ing on a long journey, and is likely to die when traveling, 
especially on a long voyage. 

496 If in the 10th house, misfortune, sorrow and affliction 
will come to the native's mother, or his wife's father, and 
there is great danger that the native will meet with some 
serious disaster or be sent to prison, unless the lord of the 
10th house is a fortunate planet or in good aspect to fortunate 
planets, then he may escape being sent to prison. 

497 If in the nth house, the native is likely to be often 
despondent and gloomy, and have but little hopes, especially 
if the lord of the nth house afflicts the lord of the ascendant; 



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his friends will generally be of low extraction, and is more 
liable to injure him than be of any benefit, and he is likely 
to be poor most of his life. 

498 If in the 12th house, the native will be hated or dis- 
liked by many persons, especially by the lower class, yet 
without power to injure him very seriously; if in square 
or opposition to the lord of the 4th house or ascendant, or 
lord of the 8th house, he is very likely to be killed by large 
animals or die in prison, or spend most of his life in prison. 

Lord of the seventJi in the 12 houses. 

499 If the lord of the 7 th house is in the ascendant, it 
indicates success in the practice of astrology and medicine, 
and the native will be beloved by women, and they will be 
his friends and assist him in his business; if the lord of 
the 7th house is an evil planet, then it indicates that they 
will be his enemies, and often bring him trouble or losses, 
especially if the lord of the 4th house afflicts by evil aspect 
the lord of the 7th house; it will also cause the native's wife 
or husband to be a tyrant, jealous and ill-natured. 

500 If in the 2d house, the native will marry for love rather 
than for money, and there is great danger that his wife will rot 
live to be old, and he may marry several times. The native's 
enemies will not live long, or he is likely to be robbed or in 
some way swindled by women; if the lord of the 7th house 
is an evil planet, he will often be cheated or swindled, if not 
robbed. 

501 If in the 3d house, the native's near relations will often 
be at variance with him, and he cannot get along with them ; 
he is likely to marry some one of his own kindred, and will 
live at variance with her relations, and not get along well, 
neither with his own relations nor with his neighbors. 

502 If in the 4th house, the native is very likely to follow 
the profession of his father and be successful in business; he 
will marry a virtuous wife, unless the lord of the 7th house 
is an evil planet. He is also likely to have some contention 
with his relations about his father's estate, especially if the 
lord of the 8th house is an evil planet, and afflicted by evil 
aspects. 

503 If in the 5th house, the native will marry a very young 
wife of good behavior, and she is likely to be an actress or 
musician, or be in public life; he is likely to receive in- 
juries, crosses or unhappiness from his children, or they die 
young, especially if the lord of the 7 th house is an evil 
planet. 



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504 If in the 6th house, the native will marry a servant or 
person of low extraction, and she is likely to be much beneath 
him, or else she will be a menial or have some scandal or 
blemish to her reputation; if the lord of the 7th house is 
afflicted or an evil planet, he will meet with much unhappi- 
ress and trouble on account of servants or employees, or 
persons boarding- in his house, and it is very unfortunate 
for him to be a physician or a breeder of small cattle or fowls, 
keeping a boarding-house, etc. 

505 If in the 7th house, the native will marry a person of 
good family, but she is not likely to love him, and will cause 
much unhappiness, strife and contention by reason of other 
men, especially if it is an evil planet ; but if it is a fortunate 
planet and unamicted, it indicates the contrary, and that he 
will live happily with his wife. 

506 If in the 8th house, the native will wed a high-born 
wealthy wife; he will enjoy her estate, but is likely to have 
some trouble or lawsuit connected with a death of some 
friend about a legacy; if the lord of the 7th house is an evil 
planet, his wife is likely to squander both her own and his 
patrimony, and there is great danger that they will come to 
poverty through her extravagance. 

507 If in the 9th house, it indicates that the native will 
marry a stranger or a person coming from abroad, or he 
marries while on a long journey; he is also likely to suffer 
much on account of religious persecutions, but will gain by 
his wife's relations, unless the lord of the 7th house is an 
evil planet, then he will have serious trouble with his wife's 
relations, lawsuits, religious quarrels, or while on long jour- 
neys, caused by thieves, etc. 

508 If in the 10th house, the native will marry a very 
honorable wife or husband, and will gain an estate by him or 
her, unless the lord of the 7 th house is an evil planet, then it 
will cause much trouble and strife concerning some honorable 
office or employment, and the native's wife (or husband) is 
likely to be defrauded of her or his estate, or it will in some 
way be squandered. 

509 If in the nth house, the native will marry a widow or 
widower, who is likely to have children living, but he or she 
will live comfortable with their partners, but danger of differ- 
ence arises on account of the children, or friends will make 
trouble on account of the children, especially if the lord of 
the 7 th house is an evil planet, and is in evil aspect to the lord 
of the 5th house. 



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510 If in the 12th house, the native will be in danger of 
dying by the hands of his enemies, either by poison or being 
killed ; his secret enemies are likely to try and do him much 
harm, and cause him much unhappiness, or try and keep him 
confined in prison or in an insane asylum ; especially if the lord 
of the 7th house is an evil planet. The native's wife or 
husband generally suffers by poor health, or is often quite 
sick, and he or she will not live to be old. 

Lord of the eight Ji in the 12 houses. 

511 If the lord of the 8th house is in the ascendant, it 
makes the native gloomy, despondent and melancholy, and 
he is likely to be of short life, especially if it is an evil 
planet ; but he is likely to be fortunate in legacies or receive 
advantage? from his wife's income, especially' if the lord of 
the 2d house is in good aspect to the lord of the ascendant or 
the lord of the 8th house, and the lord of the 8th house is a 
fortunate planet. 

512 If in the 2d house, the native is likely to receive a 
fortune from his wife, or he may recover debts that he little 
thought he would ever get, unless the lord of the 8th house 
is an evil planet, then his wife will squander his money and 
he loses heavily by bad debts, but if it is a good planet, 
then he will gain by wills and legacies. 

513 If in the 3d house, the native's brothers and sisters 
will be very unfortunate and generally of short life; he is 
likely to be unfortunate in taking short journeys, and in his 
relations with neighbors ; and the native is in danger of being 
killed, or in some way injured in traveling. 

514 If in the 4th house, it indicates that the native's par- 
ents will not live to be old, especially if the lord of the 8th 
or nth house is in square or opposition to the lord of the 
4th house (the nth house being the 8th from the 4th); as for 
the native, he will die in his own home, unless the lord of 
the 8th house is in conjunction with the lord of the ascendant 
in the 9th house, then he dies in a strange country. 

515 If in the 5th house, it indicates that the native will 
bury his children or they come to a violent death, and if they 
live, they will be very wicked and rebellious, and cause him 
a world of trouble. 

516 If in the 6th house, the native's servants will be un- 
faithful to him, and his small cattle or fowls will not prosper, 
but in some way meet with misfortune or die. The native is 
verv likely to suffer from poor health, and may die a violent 
death or be ill-treated, or he may be poisoned by his physician. 



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517 If in the 7th house, it causes the native to marry a 
rich wife or husband, or a fortune will come to the native 
through his wife (or her husband) unexpectedly ; especially if 
the lord of the 8th house is strong and a fortunate planet, or 
in good aspect to the lord of the 1st or 2d house, or planets in 
the 7th house. But if the lord of the 8th house is an evil 
planet and afflicting the 7th house, the native is likely to marry 
several times, and his or her wives or husbands will be of 
short life. 

518 If in the 8th house it indicates that the native will die 
a natural death, and have but little sickness through the 
whole course of his life, only he may at times be slightly 
threatened with illness ; but if the lord of the 8th house is an 
evil planet and afflicted by the lord of the 6th or 12 th house, 
then there is great danger that the native will die a violent 
death, or in some way be killed by an accident or secret ene- 
mies or servants, especially if the lord of the ascendant or 
the giver of life is also afflicted by evil aspects. 

519 If in the 9th house, it indicates that the native's wife's 
(or husband's) relations will deprive him of part of his property, 
and that there will be a strife and debate between the native 
and them, especially if the lord of the 9th house or 
ascendant is in square or opposition to the lord of the 8th 
house. 

520 If in the 10th house, it denotes a violent death, especi- 
ally if the lord of the 10th house is in square or opposition to 
the lord of the 8th house, or if the lord of the 8th house is an 
evil planet; in that case, there is danger that the native will 
die by the sentence of a judge, especially if the lord of the 
8th or 10th house is in square or opposition from fixed signs 
to the lord of the ascendant. 

521 If in the nth house, the native's friends are short 
lived, and he is liable to die before middle age, unless the 
giver of life is strong, or the lord of the 1st house is in 
sextile or trine to the ascendant. 

522 If in the 12th house, the native will be very much 
troubled, annoyed and worried by his enemies, and there is 
great danger that he will die in prison, unless the lord of the 
ascendant is strong or in its own house, or Jupiter or Venus 
are in the 1 2th house ; but if the lord of the 8th house is strong 
in the 12th house, and afflicting the lord of the ascendant, 
then the native is likely to die either in prison or by secret 
enemies. 



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Lord of the nintli in the 12 houses. 

523 If the lord of the 9th house is in the ascendant, the 
native is likely to be of a religious disposition, also of a 
scientific turn of mind and a great traveler ; his wife will be 
prudent and very much respected by strangers and her 
relations; the native will be fortunate in long voyages or 
journeys, unless the lord of the 9th house is an evil planet 
and is afflicted by evil aspects, then it denotes the contrary, 
and he suffers by his wife's relations. 

524 If in the 2d house, the native will gain a fortune by 
merchandise or trading in foreign parts; he is also likely to 
gain some position as an embassador or consul to some 
foreign country, and thus become wealthy and prominent, 
unless it is an evil planet and afflicted, then he loses by law, 
religion, long journeys and his wife's relations. 

525 If in the 3d house, the native is likely to be unsettled, 
move from place to place, and he is almost certain to emigrate 
to foreign countries, probably on account of his brothers and 
sisters or his near relations. 

526 If in the 4th house, the native will gain some position 
by means of his wife's relations, and will travel on account 
of his father or mother's relations, or some money will come 
to him from foreign countries, unless the lord of the 9th 
house is an evil planet and afflicted. 

527 If in the 5th house, the native is likely to have children 
born to him by other women than his wife, especially if the 
lord of the 5th house is in evil aspect to the lord of the 
ascendant, and he may travel or go abroad on that account. 
If the lord of the 9th house is in the 5th, and a fortunate planet 
and in good aspect, he may acquire a large estate by speculat- 
ing in foreign countries, or in some way connected with 
foreign goods or stocks. 

528 If in the 6th house, the native will marry a servant or 
a person in low circumstances, and he will gain by means of 
servants or small cattle, especially if the lord of the 2d house 
is in sextile or trine aspect to the lord of the 6th house. 

529 If in the 7th house, the native will marry a stranger or 
a person born in a foreign country, and one who will be very 
well educated, and her relations will be kind to her, although 
they may often be at strife with the native. 

530 If in the 8th house, the native will gain considerable 
by traveling or going on long journeys, and his wife will 
gain by legacies or wills. 



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531 If in the 9th house, the native will be religious and 
very fond of traveling; he may be successful as a preacher 
or lawyer. His dreams will generally come true, unless the 
lord of the 9th house is an evil planet, and in evil aspect to 
the lord of the ascendant. 

532 If in the 10th house, the native will gain honor by long 1 
journeys, and the wife's kindred will honor the native, especi- 
ally if the lord of the 9th house is in good aspect to the lord 
of the ascendant and is strong; but if the lord of the 9th 
house is an evil planet and in evil aspect, then the native will 
have a world of trouble with his wife's relations, lawsuits, 
religious persecutions, and the ill-will of judges, etc. 

533 If in the nth house, the native will suffer on account 
of religion and often to his utter undoing, unless the lord of 
the nth is in sextile or trine aspect to the lord of the ascend- 
ant or to the lord of the 9th house, and, in that case, he is likely 
to gain advantage by friends, especially those living abroad in 
a foreign country, or he may hold some high position. 

534 If in the 12th house, the native will be fortunate in 
the first part of his life, but in the middle or declining age, 
his enemies are likely to cause him much trouble, especially 
if the lord of the 9th house is an evil planet, and in evil aspect 
to the lord of the ascendant or the 10th house, then there is 
great danger that the native may be in prison most of his life, 
or have much suffering on account of lawsuits, or by his 
wife's relations. 

Lord of the tenth in the 12 houses. 

535 If the lord of the 10th house is in the ascendant it 
indicates that the native will attain great dignities, especially 
if it is a fortunate planet, and in good aspect to the lord of 
the 1st or 2d house; but if an evil planet and has an evil 
aspect, though he does rise ever so high, he will fall again, 
especially if the lord of the 4th house is in square or opposi- 
tion to the Sun or the lord of the 1st or 10th house. 

536 If in the 2d house the native will gain an estate or 
considerable advantage by gift or office, or from some person 
in high position, and he will be esteemed for his wealth. 

537 If in the 3d house, the native will have few, if any 
brothers or sisters, but he will gain honor and advantage from 
his wife's relations, and enjoy it until death; but if the lord 
of the 10th house is an evil planet, and has an evil aspect in 
the 3d house, nis relations will plot against him, and will 
endeavor to confine him in prison, or have him sentenced by 
a judge. 



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538 If in the 4th house, the native is likely to become a 
farmer or real estate agent, and will also be fortunate in 
mines and in any business in which he would have to deal in 
the fruits of the earth, especially if it is a fortunate planet and 
in good aspect to other planets, his property will advance in 
value; but if the lord of the 10th house is an evil planet and 
afflicted by the lord of the ascendant, 2d or 9th house, then 
the native will lose his property by lawsuits, etc. 

539 If in the 5th house, the native's children will be sickly 
and but few live ; he will be fortunate in marriage and enjoy 
the property of his wife, but very likely he will not live long, 
as he is liable to injure his health by feasting, pleasure or too 
much indulgence and improper living. 

540 If in the 6th house, the native is generally poor or in 
low circumstances, and leads a plodding or drudging life ; if 
the lord of the 10th house is a fortunate planet and in good 
aspect to other planets, then he is likely to gain honor and 
wealth by the practice of medicine, or discover some medi- 
cine by which he will make a fortune. 

541 If in the 7th house, the native will gain by lawsuits and 
his wife, and acquire credit and reputation by her and her 
friends and relations; if the lord of the 10th house is an evil 
planet and afflicted in the 7th house, the native's wife or his 
partners will bring him sorrow and trouble, there is great 
danger that he will lose his credit and reputation, or become 
poor. 

542 If in the 8th house, the native will, before middle age, 
attain wealth and honor by inheritance, wills or legacies ; but 
there is danger that his mother will die early in life, especially 
if it is an evil planet or afflicted, in that case, he is swindled 
out of his legacies, or his wife s or mother's estates. 

543 If in the 9th house, the native will be prosperous in 
taking long journeys or sea voyages, but is liable to die in 
some foreign country; he will also gain profit by learning or 
scientific pursuits, or being a lawyer or judge, or a member 
of the legislature, unless it is an evil planet or afflicted, in 
that case, he is then unfortunate in all the occupations and 
professions mentioned.. 

544 If in the 10th house, the native will be prosperous in 
trade, and likely to become very wealthy and noted on 
account of the large business that he will transact, and is 
almost certain to hold some high position under the govern- 
ment; but if it is an evil planet, then he loses it again, and 
is in danger of disgrace. 



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545 If in the nth house, the native will be honored by his 
friends, and he will be very beneficial and helpful to his 
acquaintances, and will gain wealth and become prominent 
and noted, unless it is an evil planet, then he is unfortunate 
with his friends, and they do him harm instead of good. 

546 If in the 1 2th house, the native will be very unfortu- 
nate, and will lose his office and dignity by the treachery of 
his pretended friends, who will prove to be private enemies; 
if the lord of the 10th house is afflicted in the 12th house, 
great danger that the native wll be sentenced by a judge, or 
have to spend many years in prison on account of his politics, 
or advocating some unpopular religious dogma, or being a 
socialist or anarchist, etc. 

Lord of the eleventh in the 12 houses. 

547 If the lord of the nth house is in the ascendant it 
enables the native to overcome his enemies by means of his 
friends and acquaintances, and enables him to gain his hopes 
and expectations, and be fortunate in most of his engage- 
ments and undertakings; but if the lord of the nth house is 
an evil planet or in evil aspects, especially to the lord of the 
ascendant, 4th or 10th house, then it produces the contrary, 
and his friends prove treacherous and deceitful, and cause 
him many losses and misfortunes. 

548 If in the 2d house, the native gains riches by his friends 
and acquaintances, and he gradually becomes well off, as his 
friends will assist him; but if the lord of the nth house is 
either Saturn or Mars and they are afflicted, then he loses 
money by his friends, who will be constantly borrowing or 
getting him to go security, and thus cause his ruin. 

549 If in the 3d house and a fortunate planet, then the 
native's brothers and sisters and near relations will be very 
prosperous and attain prominence, and be of much advantage 
to him ; he will also be very successful in his journeys, and 
make friends while traveling; but if the lord of the nth 
house is an evil planet and afflicted in the 3d house, then his 
friends prove treacherous, especially while traveling or 
on journeys. He is also likely to be banished on account of 
his religion or politics, and meet with accidents and misfor- 
tunes while traveling. 

550 If in the 4th house, the native's parents will be well 
off and have a large estate, but will not live long, especially 
if it is an unfortunate planet, but if a fortunate planet, then 
the native's estate will increase in value, and his friends 
remain with him until his death. 



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551 If in the 5th house, the native will be happy most of 
his life, and enjoy his friends and be prosperous, and he will 
also be fortunate with his children ; but if the lord of the 1 ith 
house is an evil planet and afflicted in the 5th house, then his 
friends will rob him, and his children will prove treacherous 
and be a misfortune to him, or they die early in life, or in 
some way cause him much unhappiness, or he has none born 
to him 

552 If in the 6th house, the native will have to work nearly 
all his life, or be a servant or lead a plodding life; he will 
generally have poor health, and he will not live to be old. 

553 If in the 7th house, the native will marry a rich and 
good wife or husband, and they will live lovingly and happily 
together ; but he is likely to be poor in his early years, but 
becomes well off in middle age; but if the lord of the nth 
house is an evil planet and afflicted in the 7th house, then his 
pretended friends become his public enemies, and bring him 
to ruin and misfortune, and involve him in many lawsuits or 
quarrels. 

554 If in the 8th house, the native will be unfortunate in 
trading, but will gain by wills and legacies ; but if it is an 
evil planet and afflicted in the 8th house, the native loses 
most of his friends by death, or they nearly all die before 
him. 

555 If in the 9th house, the native will be fortunate most 
of his life, and will have good success, and take many long 
journeys, and almost certain to hold some high office in a 
foreign country, such as embassador, consul, etc. ; but if the 
lord of the nth house is an evil planet and afflicted in the 9th 
house, then he easily quarrels with his friends and has law- 
suits with them, or quarrels on account of religious dogmas, 
politics, etc. 

556 If in the 10th house, the native will rule and become 
very powerful, and will rise to fortune; his friends will be of 
great advantage to him, and he may hold one of the highest 
political positions in the land, especially if the lord of the 
nth horse is a fortunate planet and in good aspect to the 
lord of the ascendant or 2d house; but if it is an evil planet 
and afflicted, then his friends turn against him, and help to 
bring him to misfortune or ruin. 

557 If in the nth house, the native will have many and 
very prosperous friends and acquaintances, aud will have a 
good reputation ; he is likely to be an adviser to a Governor 
or President, similar to being one of the cabinet, etc. ; but if 
the lord of the nth house is an evil planet and afflicted, he 
will afterwards come to disgrace. 



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558 If in the 12th house, the native's friends will prove 
treacherous, and always be plotting- for his ruin, or trying- to 
put him in prison, and he is likely to injure himself by leading 
an improper life, unless the lord of the nth house is a fortu- 
nate planet, in that case it will not be quite so evil; but he 
must not expect any good from his friends. 

Lord of the twelfth in the 12 houses. 

559 If the lord of the 12th house is in the ascendant, the 
native will have many enemies, and they will cause him much 
perplexity and trouble, especially before middle age or in his 
early years, and if the lord of the 12th house is an evil planet 
and in evil aspect to other planets, then there is danger that 
his enemies will confine him in prison most of his life, and it 
will cause him to be poor, gloomy and dispondant up to mid- 
dle age, and not well off even in the latter part of his life ; 
but if the lord of the 12th house is a fortunate planet, then 
he may avoid being imprisoned, still he will be an unfortu- 
nate person and generally poor. 

560 If in the 2d house, the native will have a great many 
lies reported to injure and damage his reputation, and he 
will be envied for his money or property ; the native is likely 
to be confined in prison or in an insane asylum so that his 
enemies can get his money or property, but if the lord of the 
1 2th house is a fortunate planet and has good aspects, then 
he may overcome his enemies, and gradually become well off, 
especially after middle age. 

561 If in the 3d house, the native will have many crosses, 
misfortunes and much unhappiness caused by his brothers 
and sisters or near relations, and he will also be unfortunate 
in any business that causes him to take short journeys; and if 
it is an evil planet and has evil aspects, his kindred will try 
to get him into prison, or they die long before his old a e. 

562 If in the 4th house, the native's father will afflict him 
and become his enemy, and he will get but little benefit from 
his parents, or he and his family will have an unhappy home 
in his early life, and he is likely to leave his home before he 
becomes of age ; his wife's mother will be his enemy, and he 
will know what it is to have a mother-in-law, but if the lord of 
the 1 2th house is a fortunate planet, then his father will not 
afflict him so much, and he may possibly get along with his 
relations, and gradually become well off by hard work. 

563 If in the 5th house, the native's children will be very 
disobedient, and cause him much sorrow and trouble, and 
they are likely to get him into prison ; he will also be very 



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unfortunate in all kinds of speculation, or his secret enemies 
may lead him into speculation in order to ruin him ; but if 
the lord of the 12th house is a fortunate planet, then he may 
get along rather comfortably with his children, but they will 
still cause him unhappiness, or they die early in life. 

564 If in the 6th house, the native will be very unfortu- 
nate with servants, small cattle and keeping boarders; he 
will also be unfortunate as a physician, and he is likely to 
lead a plodding, servile life, and have many hardships to 
endure, or he will suffer from poor health. But if it is a for- 
tunate planet or in good aspect to fortunate planets, then the 
native may succeed in the practice of medicine or keeping a 
boarding house or with servants, etc. , but will at times have 
trouble with them. 

565 If in the 7th house, the native will be very unfortunate 
in his relations with women ; they will get him into trouble, 
or cause him sorrow or misfortunes ; and his wife will prove 
to be his enemy, and very likely get him into prison ; he will 
also be very unfortunate in all kinds of partnerships or dealing 
with others; his partner will become his enemy and rob him, 
unless the; lord of the 12th house is a fortunate planet and 
has good aspects, then it is not quite so unfortunate. 

566 If in the 8th house, the native will see the death of 
nearly all or most of his enemies, and his enemies will come 
to trouble and misfortune ; he is likely to get an estate by 
means of legacies or wills, but with much difficulty ; his wife 
is also likely to be cheated out of her money or estate, or he 
gets no good from it. 

567 If in the 9th house, the native will be troubled and 
annoyed by his wife's relations, and they will involve him in 
lawsuits and many difficulties; he will also be unfortunate 
in taking long journeys, and is likely to suffer much by religi- 
ous persecution or the clergy, and religious people are almost 
certain to be his enemies, but if the lord of the 1 2th house is 
a fortunate planet, then he is likely to be very pious, or what 
the people call fanatical or a religious crank, or an advocate 
of some new dogma or unpopular theology. 

568 If in the 10th house, magistrates or people in high 
office will persecute him, and cause the native much trouble 
and misfortune ; he is likely to be banished or put in prison 
on account of corrupt judges, or his enemies swearing falsely 
against him ; if the lord of the 1 2 th house is a fortunate planet, 
then he may escape most of the above difficulties or mis- 
fortunes. 



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569 If in the nth house, the native will have only pre- 
tended friends, and they will act deceitfully and treacherously 
towards him, and very likely become his secret enemies, and 
he will be unfortunate in most of his undertakings; he will 
generally be gloomy, despondent and discontented with his 
condition in life, especially in the early part of it ; but if the 
lord of the 12th house is a fortunate planet, then he may 
retain some of his friends, but they will never do him much 
good. 

570 If the lord of the 12th is in the 12th house, the native 
will have many enemies, and they will have much power to 
annoy him, and make his life miserable ; he is liable to have 
lies or false reports circulated about him to his injury, and 
if the lord of the 12th house is an evil planet and in evil 
aspect to the lord of the ascendant or 4th house, they will 
bring him to ruin, and probably he will end his days in 
prison ; but if the lord of the 12th house is a fortunate planet, 
then the evil will not be so great, unless it is afflicted by a 
square or opposition of an unfortunate planet, and that planet 
is either the Moon or lord of the 1st house, then he brings his 
misfortunes on himself, and he ends his days in prison. 

REMARKS AND EXPLANATION. 

On formulating the foregoing rules we sometimes meet with con- 
fusion or conflicting testimony on account of most of the planets 
being rulers of two houses, and one may be a good house, and the other 
evil, but if the lord of a house, say the first house, is alone and not in 
any evil aspect to any planet in that house, and not lord of any evil house, 
and is not perigrine or very weak, and the said lord is neither Saturn 
nor Mars, in that case the foregoing rules will be strictly correct, and 
always prove true in their indications of good fortune. But if it is 
Saturn or Mars, then it is an indication of evil fortune for anything be- 
longing to that house. 

For example, when the lord of the ascendant is alone in the second 
house, and that lord is neither Saturn nor Mars, and it is not the lord 
of any evil house, then the indications of riches for the native by his 
industry and ingenuity is almost certain to come true; but if it is in the 
second house, and is strong and well aspected by fortunate planets, who 
are lords of good houses; or if Jupiter or Venus, or both are in the 2d, 
house unafflicted, then the indications for riches are very marked. But if 
the lord of the ascendant is weak in the 2d house, and is in conjunction, 
square or opposition to Saturn, Mars or the Dragons tail, or if either of 
the unfortunate planets is also lord of an evil house, besides being lord of 
the ascendant, and is in the 2d house, especially if lord of the 2d, is in 
an evil house and afflicted by unfortunate planets, from evil houses, then 
the native will be poor throughout his whole life, and will die in poverty. 



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I should here remark that the Sun or Mars in the 2d house, is evil 
for saving money, as they are said to burn up the native's money or he 
spends it in a lavish and extravagant manner. 

When a planet is lord of a good house, and at the same time lord of 
an evil one; for instance if it is lord of the loth house, and also lord of 
the 6th house, then its influence is modified or weakened a great deal 
when in any good house, as the 2d, 10th, or 11th houses. 

If Mercury is in the 2d house, and Gemini is in the 6th house, and 
Virgo in the loth, in that case although the native will make money 
and be generally successful in business, yet he is likely to lose it again on 
account of sickness either for himself, or his family or relations ; but if 
Mercury receives good aspects in the 2d house, and is lord of the 6th, 
and 10th houses, then he would be very successful as a physician or in any 
way dealing in medicine as a business, or keeping a boarding house, en- 
gaging servants etc., especially if there are fortunate planets in the 6th 
or 10th houses. 

If the student has studied carefully the last paragraph on page 93 and 
continued on page 94, he will have a key to the meaning of many of the 
expressions in the foregoing remarks in relation to the " lords of the 
12 houses." 

For example, the 4th house in the native's horoscope is the first 
house or ascendant of the native's father, and the 5th is the father's 
house of money ; the 6th is the father's house of brothers and sisters ; 
the 7th, is the father's house of property or real estate ; the 8th, is the 
father's house of children ; and so on of all the other houses in the 
horoscope. The 10th house is the mother's ascendant or 1st house, the 
11th, her house of money, the 12th, her house of near relations, 
neighbors, journeys, etc. 

In paragraph 496 on page 207 where it says : " If (the lord of the 5th 
house is) in the 10th, misfortune, sorrow and affliction will come to the 
native's mother or his wife's father, and there is great danger that the native 
will meet with some serious disaster, or be sent to prison." The explana- 
tion of the above paragraph is that the 10th house, although a good 
house for the native, is in this case an evil house for the native's mother 
or wife's father, as it is in the 6th house (or the house of sickness,) from 
the 5th house, and it is the house of the native's mother and of the 
native's wife, (or husband's) father ; and the 10th house is also the house 
of judges or magistrates, and being in evil aspect to the 5th house, they 
might cause him much trouble. This will serve as an explanation for 
other houses of the "lords of the 12 houses," which the student can 
study himself. 

In a few cases of the lords of the houses, I have stated " he or she " 
or "husband and wife," etc.; but it would be a round about way of ex- 
pressing my meaning to have continued that method for all the lords 
of the houses ; besides it would have taken too much space. 

The student can change the reading for females so as to read " she" for 
" he," and " husband " for " wife," and read as if the houses and their 
influence had been intended only for females. 



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Also in paragraph 527 the student can change the reading altogether, 
and read it in this manner for females ! " If the lord of the 9th, is in 
the 5th house, the native will have children to other men than her hus- 
band, especially if the lord of the 5 th house is in evil aspect to the lord 
of the ascendant, and she may have to travel or go abroad on that 
account." 

The astrological explanation is that the 9th house is the 5th house, 
(or house of pleasure from the ^th house,) and if the lord of the 9th 
house, or the 5th house from the 5th, is in the 5th house of the horo- 
scope, then there is danger that the man or woman will go abroad, or 
go to strangers or persons living at a distance for their pleasure rather 
than going to his or her own home for the same end or object. 

I think I have made the subject quite plain, but for fear the student 
does not fully comprehend the matter I give one more illustration. If 
the student turns to paragraph 550 on page 215, where it says: "IF 
(lord of the 1 ith) is in the 4th house, the native's parents will be well off 
and have a large estate, but will not live long, especially if it is an un- 
fortunate planet ; but if it is a fortunate planet, then the native's estate 
will increase in value, and his friends will remain with him until his 
death " (as the 4th house is the end of all things.) 

The explanation is that the 4th house is the house of the native's 
parents, and if the lord of the nth, which is a fortunate house for the 
native, is in the 4th house of the horoscope, it indicates that the parents 
will be well off; but at the same time the 1 ith house, is the 8th house, 
or the house of death, reckoning from the 4th house, or house of the 
parents, also the 4th house, is the 6th, or the house of sickness from the 
11th, indicating that the parents will either have very poor health, and 
not live long, as lord of the 8th, and the 6th, from the 4th house, will 
both be afflicting the 4th house, or the house of the parents ; but if it 
is a fortunate planet, then they are likely to live long, and also the na- 
tive will have many friends, as the 4th house is his home or his property, 
an 1 as it is the end of all things, his friends are very likely to remain 
by him until his death, and not only that, but his father's friends, or 
friends of the family are very likely to continue to be the native's friends, 
and a fortunate planet in the 4th house improves the native's prop- 
erty, or makes it increase in value. 

When the student understands all the various meanings of the houses 
as explained in the last paragraph on pages 93 and 94, he will be able 
to find out the true meaning of all the lords of the 12 houses, and can 
even make rules for himself, or extend the remarks in regard to his own 
or his friends horoscopes. 

One thing the student should constantly keep in mind is that Sat- 
urn and Mars are evil planets, and afflict any part of the horo- 
scope, whereever thev are posited, no matter if they are lords of good 
houses ; and that Jupiter and Venus are fortunate planets and they 
benefit any house in the horoscope, whereever they may be posited, 
if not afflicted, even if they are in evil houses, but in these cases they are 



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of but slight benefit, and may not do the native much good, still they 
prevent or modify what would otherwise be great harm or serious injury 
to him. 

(For example, a particular friend of mine, who had in his horoscope 
Jupiter, lord of the 7th and 4th houses, in the 8th house, or house of 
death, and in square to Mars lord of the 8th, in the 1 ith house ; often 
made the remark that Jupiter never did him any good, and he did not 
feel any benefit from its directions or transits through good houses, etc : 
but still it did him good in an indirect manner; although he did l.ot 
appear to appreciate it. Once he stated that when at a nre in Man- 
chester, N. H., he was holding the hose, and in order to get the water 
into the building, they had to break the windows, and while standing 
there, the whole side of the factory fell outwards, and when the smoke 
cleared away, to the surprise of everybody he was found to be uninjured ; 
the wall having fallen in such a manner that the window just reached the 
place where he stood. He had a number of escapes of death in a sim- 
ilar manner. He died a natural death many years afterwards, Jupiter in 
the 8th, (or house of death), saved him from a violent death. What 
caused him frequently to be in danger of those accidents was that he had 
Saturn in his ascendant, and the Moon there also in close square to the 
Sun in the midheaven.) 

In a horoscope it is always best to have a planet that is lord of a 
house in the same house, even if it is not in the same sign that it is lord 
of, it makes that planet much stronger, unless it is otherwise afflicted, 
even an unfortunate planet, if lord of an evil house, and in the house it 
is lord of, makes it much stronger for the native's good in every way. For 
example, lord of the 6th house in the 6th, makes the native's health much 
stronger, and he is better able to endure sickness, than if the lord of the 
6th house, is in any other house than the 6th. Lord of the 8th, house 
in the 8th, even if it is an evil planet, unless afflicted, the native is 
almost certain to die of old age, and suffer but little sickness, unless the 
giver of life or the Moon or lord of the ascendant is much afflicted. But 
there is one exception to this rule, and that is. the 1 2th house, . If lord of 
the 12th, house is in the 12th, it is very unfortunate for the native, as it 
causes the native's enemies to be very strong and powerful and able to 
do him much injury, but if lord of the 12th, is in its own sign and 
house, then it makes the native's enemies inclined to be rather generous, 
if snch an anomaly can occur as a generous secret enemy. 

If lord of the 1 ith, house is in the 1 ith, it makes the native have very 
good friends, and they are likely to be of much benefit to him all through 
life. [In my own horoscope I have Taurus on the cusp of the 1 ith house, 
and Venus in n in the 1 ith house. It has always made me have a large 
number of good friends, especially females, but to offset these good in- 
fluences, I have Mercury lord of the i 2th, in the 10th house, near a 
square of the Moon, and also in square to Mars in the 6th, and Saturn, 
lord of the 7th house, afflicting the Moon in the 12th house ; also Mars 
is lord of the 5th house, and of an intercepted sign in the 10th, and in 
square to Mercury in the 10th, and in opposition to the Moon, (my 



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ruling planet,) in the 12th house, which aspects have caused me to have 
as many secret enemies as any person in my circumstances, but as Saturn 
is weak or in its detriment in Cancer, they have never been able to seri- 
ously injure me, but they have caused me a world of trouble and 
annoyance.] 

There is one more idea that I wish to impress upon the student's 
mind, and that is when the lord of a sign is in its own house, even if it is 
not in its own sign, it is very strong ; and by counting from that house 
it is lord of, it has its own relations, and signification in the horoscope, 
the same as if that house was the ascendant of the chart of the heavens. 

For instance in paragraph 532, page 213, which says, ( " If the lord 
of the 9th) is in the 10th house, the native will gain honor by long 
journeys, and the wife's kindred will honor the native, especially if the 
lord of the 9th is in good aspect to the lord of the ascendant, and is 
strong." The explanation is that the 10th house is the 2d house, or 
the house of money, from the 9th house, or house of long journeys, and 
the wife's kindred, etc. In the same paragraph it says : " but if the 
lord of the 9th house is an evil planet, and in evil aspect, then the native 
will have a world of trouble with his wife's relations, law suits, religious 
persecutions, or ill will of judges, etc." The explanation is, that an evil 
planet afflicting the 2d house, or house of money from the 9th, is a very 
great affliction connected with travelling, and law suits, or wife's kindred, 
etc., as it may cost the native considerable monev, if afflicted by an evil 
planet, as the 10th house, is a house of great importance in the horo- 
scope, and in lawsuits the judge may be very much prejudiced against 
the native, as the 10th house is in square to the 1st house of the horo- 
scope, and if an evil planet is in the 10th, it afflicts all the more, as it 
would also be in square to the ascendant. 

The 1 ith house is the 3rd house from the 9th ; the 1 2th house is the 4th 
from the 9th ; the ascendant is the 5th house from the 9th, and it being 
in trine aspect to the 9th, causes it to be a good house, especially if the 
lord of the 9th is a fortunate planet, and in the 1st house ; but the 2d 
house is the 6th from the 9th, and it being an evil house, although a 
good house in the horoscope, it is an affliction to any business connected 
with the 9th house, especially if lord of the 9th is an evil planet, and in 
the 2d house ; as the native is very likely to be taken sick or die on a 
journey, or probably he may lose considerable money on account of law- 
suits or long journeys. And so on of all the other houses in the 
horoscope. 

Remarks on the Lords of the 12 Houses, and explaining 
how they are used in Directions, Transits, 
Revolutionary Figures, etc. 

571 By becoming well posted as regards the lords of the 
different houses in a horoscope, a person can predict how a 
particular direction or aspect, either Secondary, Primary or 
Transits, etc., will affect the native in different parts of his 
life, when those aspects come up, or are completed; for ex- 



224 ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 

ample an evil aspect of Saturn, transiting over an angle, in the 
horoscope, or in square, opposition or conjunction of the Sun, 
Moon or any of the planets, by knowing what house Saturn 
is lord of at birth, or in what house it is posited in the horoscope, 
and from what house it afflicts in its transits, the Sun, Moon 
or lord of the ascendant, etc. , the student can come very close 
to predicting how it will affect the native during the influence 
of its transit or evil direction, etc. The same in regard to 
good aspects, or directions of Jupiter, Venus, Moon or the 
Sun, he can generally tell when he knows what house it is 
lord or lady of ; from what quarter or what kind of 
person the benefit is likely to come, and can also give a 
description of the man or woman who will aid or benefit the 
native, etc. , and also in what particular manner it will affect 
or benefit him. In the horoscopes which follow, I give 
a number of illustrations of the lords of the different 
houses, affecting the native by directions, aspects and tran- 
sits, and also how to apply them in Revolutions. 

Remarks on the Changes in the Personal Appearance 

of the Native, in the Different Periods 

of His Life. 

572 It is very important to give a few additional remarks 
as to the personal description of the native. On pages 158, 159 
and 1 60, the student will find rules how to describe the native 
by the positions and aspects of the planets at the time of 
birth, and in a general way these rules will hold good in almost 
all cases, but there are a few exceptions which the student in 
his experience will learn. By constant observation the student 

will find that some persons are very light complexioned when 
young, or have light or yellowish hair, and a fair skin, but as 
he approaches maturity, his hair will sometimes change to be 
quite dark or almost black, and his skin becomes much darker ; 
also there are instances where the native is very slender in 
early life, probably up to 24 years of age, then becomes quite 
full built, or stout, etc. I might give a number of other 
instances of the native changing in personal appearance in 
the different periods of life, and it may be well for the student 
to know what is the cause of the various changes of the build 
and complexion of the native. 

Rules for Judging of the Changes of the Build and 
Complexion of the Native. 

573 First, if the student observes very closely he will find 
that when there is a stout sign on the ascendant, and the lord 
of the ascendant is a slender sign, and especially if the Moon 



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is also in a slender sign, then the native will be slender in 
early life, or until he gets to be a man, and afterwards he 
will become of the nature of the ascendant, that is stout, 
or full built. 

574 Second: If the lord of the ascendant, is in a light sign 
at birth, and particularly if the Moon is also in a light sign, 
and the sign on the ascendant is a dark sign, then the native 
is quite light complexioned when young, with light or flaxen 
hair, but as he grows older the influence of the sign on the 
ascendant has its effect on the native, and he becomes dark 
complexioned, and his hair gradually becomes darker as he 
he comes to maturity. 

575 Third : If a slender sign is on the ascendant, and the lord 
of the ascendant is in a stout sign, especially if the Moon is 
in a stout sign, then the native is full built in early life, and 
becomes slender as he arrives at maturity ; and if the Moon 
is in a stout sign he becomes stout after middle age or over 
40 years old. 

576 Fourth: If a light sign is on the ascendant, and the lord 
of the ascendant is in a dark sign, particularly if the Moon is 
also in a dark sign, then the native is slightly dark com- 
plexioned when young, and he becomes lighter as he grows 
to maturity, but in these cases the hair does not change as 
much as it does when he has light hair when young, and it 
becomes darker, on account of havng a dark sign on the 
ascendant. 

577 Fifth : If Jupiter has much influence over the native in a 
horoscope, and he is slender when young, then he begins to 
fill out, or becomes stouter, when Jupiter performs its second 
revolution around the heavens, that is when the native is 24 
years of age ; but if Saturn has any influence in the natives 
personal description, then he generally begins to get stout 
when he gets to be 36 years of age, or when Jupiter has per- 
formed its third revolution, but if Saturn has much influence 
in a natives personal description, then he does not begin to 
grow stout until Jupiter forms his fourth revolution round 
the heavens, that is from 45 to 48 years of age. 

5 7 8' Sixth: When there is a slender sign on the ascendant, 
and the lord of the ascendant, or the Moon are in stout signs, 
and particularly if they are in fixed signs, the native then 
sometimes will be slender when young, and become full built 
when he comes to maturity, and he grows slender again as 
he gets older, especially if Mars or the Sun is in the ascendant, 
or has any special aspect to the lord of the ascendant or the 
Moon, as the Sun and Mars dry up the watery humors of 
the system, as the native declines in life. This remark is 



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especially true if the lord of the ascendant or the Moon 
are in fixed signs. As for example Queen Victoria has 
Gemini on the ascendant, a slender sign, and the Sun and the 
Moon in the ascendant, but she has Mercury lord of the as- 
cendant in the 12th house in a fixed and stout sign (Taurus.) 
She was slender when young, but afterwards became quite 
full built, but if she lives by this coming winter and through 
the year 1898, she will become more slender, as the Sun in 
the ascendant will dry up the watery humors of her system. 
She would have become slender years ago, if the Moon had 
not also been in the ascendant with the Snn, as the Moon is 
a watery planet, and tends to keep her of a phlegmatic 
nature. 

579 Seventh: When a person is born under the planet 
Mars, especially a man, he will sometimes have quite dark 
hair and his beard or mustache will be quite light, sandy or 
yellowish. Whenever the student sees a person with dark 
hair, and light beard, he can always depend on it that Mars 
has something to do with his personal appearance, as no 
other planet produces the same effect. The Sun will some- 
times cause a man's beard or mustache to be lighter than his 
hair, but not to the same extent that Mars does. 

The Planets Impress Distinct Characteristics or Marks on the 
Native, which can be Recognized as follows: 

580 Eighth: A Mars person is always straight and proud 
in his walk, and stamps his heels on the ground when walking 
and is also fond of dress and decoration and military display. 

581 Ninth : A Jupiter person is known by having a prom- 
inent nose, and full eyes, rather large forehead ; hair receding 
from the temples, etc. 

582 Tenth : A Venus person is known by having a dimple 
in the cheek or chin, and generally has light soft expressive 
eyes, and soft brown hair and delicate skin. 

583 Eleventh: A Sun person is known by having a full 
face, proud walk, and appears to be a person of consequence. 

584 Twelfth : A Moon person is known by being mild and 
gentle, and is rather light complexioned and slightly full 
built. 

585 Thirteenth: A Saturn person is known by being slow 
and deliberate in his actions and motions, and generally has 
some defect either in his walk, build, or personal appearance. 

586 Fourteenth : A Mercury person is generally slender, 
talkative and active, and always wants to be doing some- 
thing. 



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587 The seven planets not only govern the outward per- 
sonal appearance, build, complexion, temperament, etc., 
of the native, but there are certain distinct parts of the 
human system which certain planets rule or have special 
government of, and which it is well for the student to learn, 
in addition to those rules mentioned on pages 187 and 188, and 
to remember them, as it will be useful to him in finding out 
what special disease or ailment, also what particular parts of 
the body will be affected or the native will suffer the most 
from, and also what he will die off. 

The Seven Planets Rule the Human System, 
Named in the Following Order. 

588 *> Governs the spleen, the right ear, bones, teeth, and 
retentive faculty, throughout the whole body. 

589 21 Rules the lungs, liver, ribs, sides, veins, blood and 
digestive functions. 

590 $ Rules the gall, left ear, the taste, the face and the 
testicles. 

591 The O rules the heart and back, also the right eye of 
a man and the left eye of a woman. 

592 $ Rules the womb, and organs of generation, the 
kidneys, the throat, women's breast, milk and semen. 

593 £ Governs the tongue, brain, rational faculties, im- 
agination, hands, feet, and other moving parts of the body. 

594 The $ rules in the body, the bowels, bladder, the 
right eye of a woman, and the left eye of a man. 

595 The reason I have inserted this synopsis of the in- 
fluence of the planets on the personal appearance, build, 
complexion, temperament and their various effects, and also 
the influence of the seven planets on the different parts of 
the human system, in this part of the Elements of Astrology, 
is, that in trying to find out the time of day that a person is 
born, by looking at the gentleman or lady you can often 
detect at once under what planet he or she was born under, 
before asking them any questions, and by changing the 
horoscope around so as to get different signs on the ascen- 
dant, you can often come very close to the hour and minute 
of birth. Then by asking several questions in regard to their 
ailments or what they suffer from most, whenever they are 
taken sick, and then noticing what planet afflicts that particu- 
lar planet which rules that special ailment or disease and from 
what sign or house it afflicts, you can often get at the exact time 
of birth. For instance, if a person suffers most from rheu- 



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ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 



matism, especially of the bones, or neuralgia of the teeth, 
and is inclined to constipation, it is very probable that he is 
either born under Saturn or has Saturn in some way aspect- 
ing the ascendant, or in evil aspect to the lord of the 
ascendant or the Moon. 

596 The same if a person is born under Jupiter, he gen- 
erally has some defect in the lungs, or digestive organs, or 
bad circulation. 

597 A Mars person is apt to have some breaking out on 
the face or skin, or pain in the left ear, or weakness of the 
generative organs. 

598 A Sun person suffers from some weakness of the back, 
or heart, and if it is a man you can ask him whether he has 
any defect of the right eye, but if it is a woman the left eye 
is defective. 

599 A Venus person suffers from the lower parts of the 
body, kidneys or throat. 

600 A Mercury person is more apt to suffer from headache, 
or some affection of the head or nerves. 

601 A Moon person suffers from the bowels, and if a 
woman you can ask her if there is any defect in the right 
eye, but if a man the left eye is defective. 

602 By asking a number of questions that way, the student 
can generally find out the planet that they are born under, 
and also come very close to the correct time of birth. 

603 In my extensive practice of astrology, I have made a 
number of other observations of a similar nature to the 
above, but I am afraid that if I had to put the result of all 
my experience on paper, it would become too complicated, 
and too tedious and confusing for the student to easily grasp, 
and make use of. But if the student continues to make 
constant observations himself, he will be able to notice a 
number of similar anomalies of planetary influence which he 
may use as guides in correcting and reading other horoscopes. 

how to find the tlme of day a person is born, 
also how to Correct the Time of Birth. 

604 It is advisable for the student never to attempt to find 
out the time of a person's birth, without seeing him, because 
a verbal or written description of the native is very often 
incorrect, but if he has the native himself to look at, he can 
judge much better what sign and planet he was born under. 
The student must notice first, the person's height, build, com- 
plexion, color of hair, eyes, etc. , and try and find out what sign 
to place on the ascendant, or the sign which will come nearest 
describing him ; then notice what particular sign the lord of 



ELEMENTS OF ASRTOLOGY. 229 

the ascendant is in, and whether it will describe a person simi- 
lar to the native, also notice the Moon and what sign it is in, and 
the kind of person it will describe in that sign ; afterwards 
notice the aspects, both of the lord of the ascendant and the 
Moon ; and by changing the different signs on the ascendant, 
until, the student comes to the one nearest answering to the 
personal description of the native. Then he must ask the 
native a number of questions in regard to the various events 
of his life, etc., and if he will not answer these questions 
then in that case do not bother any further with him. If 
you can get a direction of a square or opposition of Saturn, 
Mars or the Sun to the degree and minute on the ascendant, 
and reckoning a degree for a year in time, and can learn 
from the native what particular accident, sickness or misfor- 
tune befell him at any special time or year of his life, the 
student can generally find the right degree of the sign on the 
ascendant at the time of birth. But he must also notice the 
aspects of Saturn, Mars or the Sun and planets in the 4th 
house, to find out any particular sickness, accident or misfor- 
tune to the father; the same to the 10th house, or to the 
Moon and Venus, to find out any particular accident, sickness 
or misfortune to the mother, and when these aspects come 
up they generally produce some misfortune, sickness or 
death to the father or mother ; and by noticing a number 
of these things, and should they all correspond and prove 
true, and the native admits it, then the student can set it 
down as a fact, that he has got very close to the time of the 
native's birth. 

605 Notice also if there is an evil planet in the ascendant, 
and whether the planet is low down in the ascendant, or high 
up, or near the degree ascending, and also notice whether 
the native has any mark, mole, scar or blemish on the head 
or face, and see whether the mark or blemish on the head, is 
high up in the face, near the middle of the face or low down 
on the face, or on the neck ■ If the mark or blemish is high 
up on the face, or on the head, then the evil planet is near 
the degree or a little above the degree rising ; if it is near the 
middle of the face, then the evil planet is lower down in 
the ascendant, but if on the lower part of the face or on the 
neck, then it is low down in the ascendant, or near the 
second house. 

606 If the native has an evil planet in the ascendant, 
notice whether any other planet is applying to a conjunction, 
square or opposition to that planet, and notice how many 
degrees it is from the aspect ; then find out from the native 
what particular year or time of life the native has received an 



23O ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 

injury or blemish to the face or head, or had any serious ill- 
ness, and by reckoning for each degree it has to go to complete 
the square, opposition or conjunction, one year of the 
native's life ; the student can come very close to the hour and 
minute of the time of birth. 

607 If an evil planet is rising, and the native has no mark 
or scar on the face, head or neck, then the student can set it 
down as a fact that the planet had risen above the ascendant 
before the native was born, but in such cases, the na- 
tive has generally to suffer sickness or some accident when 
the planet comes to a conjunction of the degree of the ascend- 
ant by direction, and by reckoning a degree to complete the 
conjunction to the ascending degree for each year of the 
native's life, the student can come very close to the exact 
time the native was born 

608 The same rule applies to the evil planets, either in 
square or opposition to the ascendant, and by noticing how 
many degrees the planet has to go to complete the square or 
opposition to the degree on the ascendant, and by reckoning 
a degree of longitude for a year -of the native's life, the 
student can often come very close to the time of birth, by 
these aspects, even if there is no planet in the native's 
ascendant. 

609 There are other parts of the body, and limbs, besides 
the head and face, where they may have injuries, marks, 
moles or blemishes, which we can often make use of in cor- 
recting the time of birth. For instance, a person having the 
sign Pisces on the ascendant, will often have some weakness, 
or injury, or mole on one or both of his feet, especially if 
Saturn, Mars or Uranus are in that sign, or in evil aspect to 
a planet in it. * 

610 The same remarks apply to all the other signs being 
on the ascendant, or even the lord of the ascendant, being in 
the various signs of the Zodiac. 

611 A person having Capricorn on the ascendant, generally 
has some weakness of the knees, or is very liable to rheumatism 
of those parts, especially if the planet Saturn is afflicted, and 

* Judge Kenny who was Governor of Utah, "Whenever he came to Washington on official 
business of the territory, he would take a trip to New York to have a taik with me on 
astrology. He used to tell his friends in Washington, D. C, that there was no astrologer in these 
nortiierii or eastern states that he could have a talk with, except Dr. Broughton. On one of his 
visits to New York he gave an account of being in a large hotel in Salt Lake City where tliere 
was an astrologer who was looking at the horoscope of a man's time of birth, and who was 
also present ; the astrologer told the gentleman that he had a mole on a particular nan (if his foot, 
and the man emphatically denied it, so much so. that he bet a heavy wager, that he had 710 such 
mark or mole. After the wager was laid the man took off his boot and stocking in the parlor of 
the hotel, and found the mole, which he had never previously noticed, simply because his at- 
tention had never been directed to it, but the heavenly bodies and the laws of nature had been 
directed to it, and impressed it there, and the astrologer knew that it was an impossibility for that 
man to have been born with that peculiar configuration of the heavenly bodies, without that mole 
being impressed on that particular spot of his foot. 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 2*1 

if he has an evil planet in Capricorn, then he has a mole or 
mark on one of the knees ; we can often make use of these 
weaknesses, moles or marks on the different parts of the body, 
in correcting" the time of birth. 

612 When I come to treat on Medical Astrology, I shall 
enter more fully into these marks, scars, moles, etc. , of differ- 
ent parts of the body ; but I only refer to them in this place 
in order to make use of them in correcting the time of birth. 

613 When a person applies to me to have their horoscope 
read, and they do not know their exact time of birth, I gen- 
erally calculate a chart of the heavens for noon, for the year 
and the day of the month the native was born, and notice par- 
ticularly all the signs and aspects, and positions of the 
planets at that time, and then change it around from one 
position to another, and at the same time keep looking at the 
native, until I gradually come to the supposed time of birth, 
and when I think I have come near the right time, then I 
calculate another chart of the heavens for that supposed time, 
and see how the marks, scars, moles, etc., agree, and all the 
events of the native's life ; also his personal appearance must 
correspond with it; but it is almost impossible to find the 
hour and minute of birth by the various events of life, such 
as sickness, accidents, marriage, death of father or mother, 
etc., unless the native has some particular mark, scar, or in- 
jury as a guide, or he is particularly tall, short, stout, thin, or 
there is something marked in his personal appearance. 



Table of Essential Dignities and Various other Tables and Infor- 
mation, which is Advisable for the Student to Know and 
Understand, even if he does not Commit Them 
all to Memory, before he Com- 
mences Reading Horoscopes. 

In order as far as possible to avoid any repetition of anything pub- 
lished in the first part of this volume, I refer the student to the Rudiments 
of the Science of Astrology on pages 87 and 88 for the inspection of a 
blank chart, showing the various positions of the houses of the heavens 
and their different numbers. I also refer to pages 89, 90, 91, 92 and 93 
for the signification of the 1 2 houses, their natures, qualities and de- 
scriptions. 

We here commence with the Signs and Symbols of the Planets. 

Planets and their Symbols. 

1 ¥ ^ U $ O 9 3 J) 

Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury, Moon 



232 ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 

I refer the student to pages 60, 61, 62, 63, 64 and 65 for the histor- 
ical account of the planets, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus, affecting the 
earth and its inhabitants ; and to pages 66, 6y and 68 for the influncee 
of the near approach of Mars to our Globe, and its influence on the 
earth and its inhabitants; and on pages 69, 70 and 71 for the influence 
of the planet Uranus on the United States, while transiting through the 
sign Gemini; and on pages 74, 75, 76, yy and 78 for the influence of 
Neptune on the earth and its inhabitants, while tr?nsiting through the 
sign Gemini ; and on page 79 for the influence of the planets on Ireland, 
while transiting through the sign Taurus; and on pages 99, 100, 101, 
102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 
115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120 and 121 for an account of persons de- 
scribed by the eight planets in the signs of the Zodiac ; and on the com- 
mencement of page 122 to the end of page 141 for the effect o the 
eight planets on the native, when they form the conjunction, sextile, 
trine, square or opposition in his horoscope or in Horoary Astrology. 
Further on the student will iind mention made of the planets being in 
their own sign or house, exaltations, triplicities, and in their terms, 
faces, detriment and fall ; also mention will be made of the various 
planets being in what is called their joy or highest dignities ; and an 
explanation of the effector influence of these various essential dignities 
on the native when they occur in his horoscope. 

On pages 185, 186, 187 and 188 is given the various diseases which 
each or the eight planets govern, and which effect the native. 



The Signs of the Zodiac and their Classification. 

The signs of the Zodiac, and their symbols are as follows : 
Northern Signs, are : 

¥ b n © ■: Q m 

Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, and Virgo. 
They are opposite the Southern signs, which are : 

Libra, Scorpio, Sagittary, Capricorn, Aquarius and Pisces. 

The first six are called Northern Signs, because they decline from the 
Equinox towards the North Pole. 

The second six are called Southern Signs, as they decline from the 
Equinox to the South Pole. 

On pages 97, 98 is given the general appearance of persons de- 
scribed by the 12 signs of the Zodiac, and on pages 185, 186 and 187 
is given the various diseases which are ruled by the 12 signs of the 
Zodiac; but there are several other matters connected with the signs of 
the Zodiac which ought to be further explained, and which the student 
should, as far as possible, commit to memory, and especially that 
part ca.\\e d£ssential Dignities of the Planets, when they are in certain 
signs and degrees which it is advisable for the student to know. 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 233 

The , Division of the 1 2 Signs of the Zodiac. 

These signs are divided into Fixed, Moveable and Common signs. 

Fixed signs are : ft , Si, TT[ and £?. 

Moveable signs are : °p, €0, =£= ancl V3- 

Common signs are : n, TH>, £ and K- 

The Fixed signs are called such partly on account of the position of 
the Sun, as each year when t enters each of these signs, the weather 
is said to be more fixed, and not so changeable. For instance when the 
Sun enters Aries, a moveable sign, the climate or condition of the 
weather changes, but having got one whole sign into that season 
or quarter of the year, or over the change, the weather becomes fixed 
or more settled. So when a number of planets are in fixed signs, 
or the Sun or Moon are in fixed signs, and there are fixed signs 
on the angles of the horoscopes, then any business commenced at 
these times is likely to last or endure ; also if a person is taken 
sick with the planets in a fixed sign, or fixed signs are on the angles, 
that sickness will not be easily removed or cured. Also, if a person is 
born with fixed signs on the angles in their horoscope or a number of 
the superior planets are in fixed signs, they are more stubborn and de- 
termined in their nature and disposition, than if they were born with 
moveable signs on the angles, and their planets also in a moveable sign. 
As an example, Gen. Grant had Taurus, a fixed sign, on his ascendant, 
and three of the superior planets, Saturn, Sun and Jupiter, all in that 
sign in the ascendant, and he had the planet Mars also in a fixed sign. 
Mrs. Grant once said : " The General is a very stubborn man," 
and his saying which became famous, " that he would fight it out 
on that line, if it takes all summer," was very characteristic of a 
man who had fixed signs on the ascendant, and so many planets also in 
fixed signs. 

Gen. "Washington had Taurus, a fixed sign on the ascendant, in his 
horoscope, and he also had Mars setting in Scorpio, another fixed sign, 
but Venus, his ruling planet, was in the sign Aries, a moveable sign, and 
he did not " fight it out on that line if it took all summer," but 
often retreated ?nd adopted other lines of attacking his enemies. 

A person born with moveable signs on the ascendant, or their planets 
in moveable signs, or any business commenced under moveable signs, 
especially if they are on the angles, is likely to change or vascillate the same 
as the weather in Spring, Fall, and the Tropics. Common signs are 
between the two, that is neither moveable nor fixed, and any business 
commenced under them is neither fixed nor is it easily changed. 

These signs are also divided into Human Signs, which are : LI, TTJI, 
=£= and $ , (the first part of which is human shape). 

Persons born with these signs on the ascendant, or most of their 
planets in these signs, are likely to be humane, kind and good naturedjj 
their disposition and temper. 

Persons born with their planets in Bestial signs which are T, ft, 
Si, $ (the latter part,) and Y3, are likely to be more or less Bestial 



234 ELEMENTS OF ASTR.OEOGY. 

or coarse in their manners or take after animals whict these signs die 
named after, if they are born with any of these signs on the ascendant, 
or their planets in these signs. 

Double Bodied signs are n X and the first part of f . 

Persons born with these signs on the ascendant, or on the 7th house, 
or their planets or the Moon in these signs, are likely to marry more 
than once and also liable to have twins. 

Fruitful signs are £p, TT[ and X- 

Persons born with these signs on the ascendant, or on the 5th or 1 lth 
houses, are likely to have a number of children or be what they call 
fruitful in regard to children. 

Barren signs are n Si and TTQ.. 

Persons born with these signs on the ascendant, or on the 5th house, 
or the Moon or lord of the ascendant in one of these signs, have very 
few children, if any. For example, Gen. Washington had Leo on his 
5th house, which caused him to have no children. 

Signs of Voice are n, TTP_, =£= $ and j£t . 

Persons born with these signs on the ascendant or their Moon or lord 
of the ascendant in any of these signs, are likely to be talkative, have 
good language and make good speakers. 

Mute signs or signs without Voice are ®, Tf[ and X . 

Persons born with these signs on the ascendant, or their Moon or lord 
of the ascendant in these signs are not good speakers, they hesitate when 
talking, and seldom make good orators. 

Cardinal signs are °p , S3, =£= and VS. 

Persons born with these signs on the ascendant, or have many planets 
in any of these signs, become prominent or noted, or they are likely in 
some way to make a name in the world. They are called Cardinal because 
the season of the year changes when the Sun enters any of those signs. 

Equinoctial signs are °P and^= . 

The Equinox occurs when the Sun enters either of those signs. 

The 12 signs of the Zodiac are also divided into masculine and 
feminine. The Masculine signs are every other sign, viz : T, IE, Si, 
=£=, £ , and /Xn. 

Persons born with any one of these signs on the ascendant are more 
Masculine and manly than if born under feminine sign ; even females 
have a more masculine tendency when born under them. 

Feminine signs are tf, £3, 1TJ1, TT[, V3 and X- 

Persons born with any of these signs on the ascendant or the Moon or 
lord of the ascendant in any of these signs are generally feminine ; they do 
not care to fight the world, and are more quiet and easy in their manners. 

Triplicitics or Trigons. 

These signs are also divided into Eastern or Fiery signs, called the 
Fiery Triplicities or Trigons,- which are °f , Si and $ . 

These signs are called hot and dry. That is any person born under 
any of those signs, or if they are on the ascendant, or the Moon or lord 
of the ascendant, is in any of them, when they are taken sick, their 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOCY. 235 

illness is of a hot and dry nature ; when well they are generally of a warm 
tendency and of a quick temper, and inclined to be of a dry nature; 
that is they do not retain much watery humor in their system. 

Southern or Earthy signs or Triplicty are b , ITU and V3- 

They are cold and dry. Persons born with any of these signs on the 
ascendant, or if lord of the ascendant, or the Moon is in any of the?.; 
signs are more of a cold and dry nature ; they seldom are afflicted 
with hot or burning fevers, but their diseases are generally of a cold kind. 

Western or Airy signs or Triplicity are n , =£= and £?. 

Thev are said to be warm and moist. Persons born under any of 
these signs are generally of a rather warm and moist tendency, and they 
are generally kind hearted and inclined to be effeminate. 

Northern or Watery signs or Triplicity are ®, TT[ and X- 

They are cold and moist. Persons born with any of these signs on 
the ascendant, or the Moon or lord of the ascendant posited in any of 
them, are likely to be cold and of a moist tendency, and their complaints 
whenever sick are of that nature. 

The signs are also divided into Dry and Moist. 

Dry signs are t\ «, SI, W, $ and Y3. 

Moist signs are n, 25, =£=, Til, £? and }{. 

These signs are also divided into signs of long and short ascension. 

Long Ascension signs are ®, <Tt, TTJ2, — , Tl{, and £ . 

Short Ascension signs are V3, -C, }£ °P , b and n . 

Any aspects from any sign of Long Ascension are likely to be 
longer before they are felt, but any aspects in signs of Short Ascension 
their influences are more quickly felt.* 

The signs are .also divided among the planets in the following order, 
and these planets that are on the line with the signs, are said to be lord 
or lady of the signs or houses, and are said to rule the signs they are 
lords or ladies of whether they are posited in them or not. 
Y3 t? W 

t n x 

T $ TTi 

8 ? =£= 

n $ m 

a o 

Besides the planets being lords or ladies of the houses or certain signs, 
there are other signs in which a planet is said to receive its exaltation 
or be almost as strong as being in its own house, and even retains the 

* William Lilly and a number of other old Astrologers, state in their works on astrology, that a 
square aspect in signs of long ascension is equal to a trine aspect; and a trine formed in signs of 
short ascension is equivolent to a square aspect, in their influence on the native or in Horary 
Astrology. I believe all modern Astrologers have given up that theory entirely, and that a square 
aspect is a square, and a trine aspect is a trine, no matter whether they occur in signs of long or 
short ascension. 

In making calculations to find when any Primary Direction will be complete in a horoscope ; 
reckoning a year for the degree in signs of short ascension, the event occurs about a month less 
than one year ; but in signs of long ascension it is about a month over a year when the event takes 
place, reckoning a degree for a year in the native's life. 



236 ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 

influence of that sign that it has its exaltation in, whether it be posited 
in that sign or not. 

The signs are also divided into what is termed triplicities or trigons 
which have been mentioned, and which are also called Fiery, Eearthy, 
Airy and Watery signs on pages 234 and 233. Particular planns are 
said to rule or control these triplicities. The Sun and Jupiter rule the 
fiery triplicity ; Venus and the Moon rule the Earthy triplicity ; Saturn 
and Mercury rule the Airy triplicity, and Mars rules the Watery 
triplicity. * Also particular parts or divisions of the signs, are ruled by 
certain planets called the terms. Jupiter rules the 6 first degrees of 
Aries; Venus from 6 to 14; Mercury from 14 to 21 ; Mars from 21 to 
26, and Saturn from 26 to 30. Also the signs are divided into three 
equal parts, and certain planets said to rule these divisions which are 
called the Faces. Mars rules the first 10 degrees of Aries; the Sun from 
10 to 20 degrees, and Venus from 20 to 30 degrees. Venus on account 
of being in its own house in Libra, is said to be in its detriment in the 
sign opposite, which is Aries, or it is very weak in that sign. Saturn 
receives its exaltation in the sign Libra, and its fall in the sign Aries, and 
in that sign Saturn is very weak, and so on of all the other planets 
which can be noticed and learned in the table on the opposite page. 
Explanation of the Table. 

Every planet has two signs for its houses, except the Sun and Moon; 
they have but one each. $ has °P and TT[ ; $ Venus has 8 and =2= ; 
£ has n andTTU; 2£ has $ and X, and ^ has \3 and £?. The 
planets have their exaltations, as the third column points out : thus © 
in 19 f ; J) in 3 & ; Q in 3 degrees n, etc., are exalted. But the 
student must bear in mind that the Sun is exalted in any of the degrees 
of Aries, only it has its highest exaltation in the 19th degree, and so on 
in regard to the planets being exalted in their respective Signs. These 
twelve signs are divided into Four Triplicities. The fourth column tells 
you which planet or planets govern each triplicity ; as over against £p, 
TTj, and X, you find S , who governs that triplicity; and over against 
°P, SI, $ you find © and 2£ and so on of the other triplicities. The first 
six degrees of Aries are the terms of 21, from six to fourteen, the terms 
of $ etc., etc. Over against °p , in the tenth, eleventh and twelfth 
columns, you find $ 10, © 20, ? 30 ; viz. the first ten degrees of °p 
are the Face of $ ; from ten to twenty, the Face of ©; from twenty to 
thirty, the Face of ? , etc. 

In the thirteenth column, over against °f you find ? detriment, viz.: 
9 being in T , is in a sign opposite to one of her own houses, and so is 
said to be in her detriment. In the fourteenth column, over against °p 
you find *> , over his head "Fall," that is, T ? when he is in °p is 
opposite to his exaltation, and so is very unfortunate, ftc. Though 
these things are expressed in the nature of the planets, yet this table 
makes it more evident to the eye, and is useful for reference. 



* T refer the student to Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos translated bv Mr. Aslimnnd, for the reason or ex- 
planation why certain planets were alotted to rule or govern certain triplicites: as Mars ruling the 
Watery Triplicity, and the Sun and Jupiter the Fiery, etc. 



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238 elements of astrology. 

Remarks on the Table of the Essential Dignities of the Planets. 

The exact method of judging in Astrology is, first, by being perfect 
in the nature of the planets, and signs ; secondly, by knowing the 
strength, fortitude, or debility of the significators, and well poising or 
ballancing them, and their aspects, and the several mixtures in your judg- 
ment ; thirdly, by rightly applying the influence of the chart of the 
heavens erected, and the planets aspects to one another at the time of 
birth, according to natural and not enforced maxims of art ; for by how 
much vou endeavor to strain a judgment beyond nature, by so much do 
you augment your error. 

A planet is then said to be really strong when he has many essential 
dignities, which are known by his being either in his house, exaltation, 
triplicity, term, or face at the time of birth. As, for example, in any 
scheme of the heavens, if you find a planet in any of those signs we call 
his house, he is then essentially strong, as *> in \3, or 2£ in ^ , etc. 

Essential Dignity by House. — In judgment, when a planet or signifi- 
cator is in his own sign, it represents a man in such a condition, as 
that he is lord of his own house, estate and fortune; or a man who has 
a good share of the goods of this world ; or it tells you the man is in a 
very happy state or condition; this will be true, unless the significator 
be retrograde, or afflicted by any other malevolent planet or aspect. 

Exaltation. — If he is in that sign wherein he is exalted, you may 
consider him essentially strong ; whether he be near the very degree of 
his exaltation, or not; as £ in Y3 or 2£ in ®. 

If the significator is in his exaltation, and no ways afflicted, and in an 
angle, it represents a person of haughty condition, arrogant, assuming to 
himself more than his due; for it is observed, the planets, in some part 
of the Zodiac, do more evidently declare their effects than in others. 

Triplicity. — If he is in any of these signs which are alotted him for 
his .triplicity, he is also strong, but in a less degree. 

A planet in his triplicity shows a man moderately endued with the 
goods of this world and rather fortunate ; one well descended, and the 
condition of his life to be good ; but not so much as if in either of the 
two former dignities. 

Term. — If any planet is in these degrees we assign for its terms, we 
allow it to be slightly dignified, but in rather low circumstances. 

A planet fortified, only as being in its own terms, rather shows a man 
of the corporature and temper of the planet, than any extraordinary 
abundance in fortune, or eminence in the commonwealth. 

Face. — If any planet is in its decanate, or face, it has the least 
possible essential dignity ; but being in its own face, it cannot then be 
called peregrine or out of all dignities, but a person indicated by it, is 
generally in very low circumstances, unless in good aspect, or otherwise 
strong by house, etc. 

A planet being only in its face, describes a man ready to be turned 
out of doors, having much to do to maintain himself in credit and repu- 
tation; and in genealogies it represents a family at the last gasp, even 
quite decayed, hardly able to support itself. 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 



2 39 



A planet in its detriment or in opposition to its own sign, as Venus 
in Aries, is said to be very weak, similar to a person who is at the point 
of being turned out of doors. A planet in its fall or in opposition to its 

.xaltation as Saturn in Aries, is compared to a person who has met with 
some misfortune, or has got down in the world, or is in poverty. 

^ The planets may be strong in other ways; viz., accidentally, as when 
direct, swift in motion, angular, in A or % aspect with 2£ or 9 the 
O or J) , etc., or in rj with certain notable fixed stars, as shall hereafter 
be related. $^ When reading a horoscope or nativity, always notice 
what essential dignity, weakness or imbecility any planet has. 

Joys of the Planets. 
A planet may sometimes be more exalted in one sign, or have higher 
essential dignities, than only being in its own house or exaltation, and 
whenever a planet is in that particular sign, it is said to joy or be 
specially dignified, and which indicates that the person signified is in very 
good circumstances, or has nearly all the goods that this world can afford. 
Joys or High Exaltations of the Rlanets. 
~*2 Rejoices, or is best fortified in £?. 
2J! Joyeth, and is best dignified in f . 
$ Takes pleasure most, or rejoices in TT[. 
O Joyeth most in Si. 
$ Is best of all dignified in b . 
£ Is highly exalted, and pleased in TTJ2.. 
J) The only joy of Moon is in ©. 

The Reason a Planet Receives its Joy in one of its own 
Signs, and not in the Others. 

Saturn rejoices in Aquarius, and not in Capricorn, because it is not 
only in its own sign, but it is also in its triplicity which makes it more 
exalted, consequently more potent. 

Jupiter rejoices in Sagittary, rather than in Pisces, because in Sagittary 
it is in its triplicity, besides being in its own sign. 

Mars is the same, it is also in its triplicity, besides being in its own 
sign, in the sign Scorpio. 

The Sun is also in its triplicity, besides being in its own sign, in Leo, 
which causes it to be highly exalted. 

Venus is also in her triplicity, besides being in her own sign, in Taurus, 
which causes her to rejoice in that sign. 

Mercury is exalted in Virgo, rather than in Gemini, because it is in 
its exaltation, besides being in its own sign, in Virgo. 

The Moon is in her highest dignities in Cancer, her own sign. 

Historical Remarks on the Essential Dignities of the Planets. 

There has been much difference between the Greeks, Arabians and 
other Eastern nations concerning the essential dignities of the planets 
as to the disposal of the several degrees of the signs suitably to any 
planet. After many ages had passed and before the time of Claudius 



Saturn's Orbs 


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24O ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 

Ptolemy, the astrologers were not entirely settled in the matter ; but 
since Ptolemy's time the Greeks unanimously followed the method he left, 
and which the other Christians of Europe to this day have since retained 
as most rational ; but the Moors of Barbary at present, and those 
astrologers of their race who lived in Spain, somewhat vary from us in 
certain numbers of the degrees of the essential dignities of the planets, etc. 

Orbs of the Planets. 
All the planets are said to cast an influence of several degrees around 
themselves when they are near or approaching an aspect of another 
planet, and getting within a certain number of degrees, they are then 
said to be within orbs. The following are the orbs of the planets ; both 
when approaching an aspect or when separating. 

Table of the Planefs Orbs. 

Degrees. Minutes. 
00 
00 

30 
00 
00 
00 

3° 

Here you see Saturn's Orb is 10 degrees no minutes, the half of which 
is 5 degrees. Jupiter's Orb is 12 degrees, half of which is 6 degrees. 
Mars' Orb is 7 degrees 30 minutes, the half of which is 3 degrees 
and 45 minutes. Hence it results that the platic aspect (or remaining 
within Orbs) of Saturn and Mars remain until they are about 9 degrees 
distant from their Partial (or exact) aspect. The same when two planets 
are approaching an aspect. Jupiter and Saturn are in aspect as soon as 
they get within 1 1 degrees of the aspect. 

Example. 

Suppose Satutn be in 15 degrees of Aries, and Venus in 10 degrees of 
Gemini, they are then in platic sextile of one another, for the Orb of 
Saturn, as you may see by the Table is 10 degrees, the half of which 
is 5. The Orb of Venus is 8, take half of that which is 4, and added 
to half the Orb of Saturn makes 9, so that they are within Orbs of 
a sextile aspect, when they are 9 degrees distant from their exact sextile 
in their respective signs. 

The Mean Motions of the Planets. 

The planets have certain motions in the Zodiac, when they are direct 
and the following is what is termed the mean motion of the planet, but 
sometimes they are Retrograde, and the mean motion includes both the 
Retrograde and their direct motion. 

The Sun and the Moon never have any Retrograde motion. The 
Sun has very near the same motion each day, but the Moon varies very 
much in its motion on account of its apogee and perigee, that is, being 
far away or near the Earth. 



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ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 24 1 

Of the Mean Motion of the Planets. 
Degrees. Minutes. Seconds. 
2 1 

4 59 

31 27 

59 8 

59 8 

59 8 

10 36 

The use which may be made of this, is to know when a planet is 
swift or slow in motion, for if it moves more in 24 hours than is allowed 
for its mean motion, it is said to be swift, and if it moves less than its 
mean motion, it is said to be slow in motion. When a planet is swift 
in motion and making an aspect, that aspect is stronger for good or evil 
according to the aspect, than if the planet is slow in motion. 

The Sympathy and Antipathy of the Planets. Or Friends 
and Enemies. 

There are certain planets that are said to be friendly to other planets 
and there are planets which are said to bear enmity to other planets. 
Venus and Mars are said to be the greatest enemies of all the planets, 
but for all that they both take sides against their old and common enemy 
Saturn, as Venus and Mars are both enemies of that planet. The 
following is the table of friendships and enmities of the different planets, 
which the student ought to remember if possible, as he will find it of 
much advantage in his practice of astrology. 

A Table of the Friendships and Enmities of the Planets. 



Planets. 


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Enemies. 


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By this table you may perceive that the friends of Saturn are Jupiter 
Sun, Mercury and Moon, his enemies are Mars and Venus. 

In the above table it is said that Venus is a friend of Mars, but Mars 
is an enemy of Venus. Indeed Venus is friendly to nearly all the 
planets, except Saturn, but for all that the student will find in his prac- 
tice in astrology that when it comes to the Human family that Venus 
and Mars get along very badly together. For instance : If a person 
is born with either, Aries or Taurus, or Libra or Scorpio on their as- 
cendant, in these horoscopes they have the opposite signs on the 7th house, 
and if Mars is lord of the ascendant, then Venus is lady of the 7th, or 
if Venus is lady of the ascendant, then Mars is lord of the 7th house. 
In all nativities which I have seen with any of these signs on the ascend- 



242 ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 

ant, unless there are some special good aspects for marriage in these horo- 
scopes, they nearly all separate. Certainly they are very jealous of each 
other, and make each other very unhappy. 

The student when examining two horoscopes if he finds one of them 
has Mars lord of the ascendant, and the other has Saturn lord of the 
ascendant, he can depend upon it that those two parties cannot agree well in 
any kind of partnership, or business undertaking, or even if one of them 
has the Sun lord of the ascendant, and the other has Saturn lord of the 
ascendant, those parties will not agree either in marriage, or partnership, 
as Saturn's house is in opposition to the Sun's house. The same remark 
may be applied to other planets which are at enmity with each other. 
The reason Mars' and Venus' men and women, cannot agree in 
marriage or partnership, is that these tv/o planets are of opposite natures ; 
that is Mars is hot and dry, quick tempered, full blooded and evil. 
Venus is cold and moist, phlegmatic and fortunate and good ; besides 
each have their sign opposite to each other, that is Aries is opposite 
to Libra, and Taurus is opposite to Scorpio. Besides these signs do not 
agree in temperament, as Aries is hot and dry, and Libra is hot and 
moist Taurus is cold and dry, and Scorpio is cold and moist. The 
same kind of reasoning applies to all the planets and the signs that they 
are ladies or lords of. 



Aspects of the Planets. 

If the student refers to page 89 of this volume, he will find there the 
various aspects mentioned and explained, and which he ought to have 
committed to memory. The various houses of the heavens are in 
aspect to each other, and also the signs are in aspect to each other, and 
the planets in their revolutions round the heavens form these various 
aspects when transiting through these signs. 

These aspects have been known and recognized for thousands of years. 
They are : 

<? Opposition. 180 

© Part of Fortune. 

Q> Dragon's Head or J Node. 

IS Dragon's Tail. 
The Sextile and Trine are what is termed fortunate aspects, the Con- 
junction is a fortunate aspect with good planets, and an unfortunate one 
with evil planets ; the square and opposition are the evil aspects, and 
show a state of enmity between these planets that are in opposition or 
square to each other. Besides these aspects which were known to the 
ancients, John Keppler one of the greatest astronomers that ever lived, 
discovered other aspects that have come into general use with astrologers ; 
although they are not so important as the ones that the ancients knew. 
In short when we have either the squares, oppositions or conjunctions, 
sextiles or trines, we pay but slight attention to these new aspects; but 
when there are no special aspects of the planets formed by what is 
termed the old aspects, then we notice the new aspects and they are the 
following. 



d 


Conjunction. 




* 


Sextile. 


60 


□ 


Square. 


90 


A 


Trine. 


120 



ELEMENTS OF ASHTOLOGY. 243 

The New Aspects Discovered by John Kepler, 

Semi-sextile 30 apart. 

Semi-square 45 ° " 

guintile 72 " 

Sesqui-quadrate 135 " 

Biquintile 144° " 

Parallel of declination, i. e., when two planets are the same number 
of degrees distant from the Equator, whether one is North and t e other 
South or both are North or South. 

The student ought to understand that the Semi-sextile aspect is only 
about half the strength of the sextile aspect, and thesame with the Semi- 
square; also these aspects formed by dividing or adding to the good 
aspects, are fortunate aspects. These that are made up out of the evil 
aspects of the ancient, such as squares, oppositions, etc., are evil aspects. 
The Part of Fortune and what is called the Moon's Node, or 
Dragon's Head, or Dragon's Tail, are not strictly speaking aspects, still 
they are positions that astrologers make use of in their predictions. The 
Part of Fortune is a point of equal distance from the ascendant that the 
Moon is from the Sun, and is called the luminary to the ascend- 
ant, and it has much to do with money matters, when in a good house 
or in good aspect to good planets, the native is generally fortunate in 
money matters, unle^ ^^ has otherwise 
when afflicted by evil 
erally unfortunate in 
horoscope, he is poor : 
and has no aspect, I ra 

The Dragon's Head, ». I e, is that point where tne Moon 

crosses the ecliptic, and it is generally where the eclipses occur. The 
Dragon's Head is counted fortunate ; the Dragon's Tail is unfortunate. 
Dragon's Head is of a similar nature or influence to Jupiter, only not 
so strong, and Dragon's Tail is similar in nature or influence to Saturn, 
but not so evil.* 

* All modern astrologers are not agreed nor of the same mind as to the effect or influence on 
the native of the planets when in their " Essential Dignities," or as to the influence of the 
"Dragon's Head" and "Dragon's Tail," or the effect of the " Part of Fortune." Some 
a^.tro'ogers wish to discard all of them ; and of that number was Mr. James Wilson as evinced in liis 
D cuoiiary of Astrolgoy. He would not admit that any planet can have any effect in any other sign 
tinn the one in which, it is posited in the horoscope. But nearly all astrologers of the present 
d:iv admit that the planets are lords or ladies of certain signs ; as Mars is lord of Aries ai d 
Scorpio, Venus is lady of Taurus and Libra, etc-, whether they are posited in these signs or not ; 
b it so ne modern astrologers question the efficacy of the " Terms " and " Faces " of the signs and 
;u j it variance as regard these minor influences. 

My own experience has led me to believe that each and every planet is stronger in certain signs 
and in certain degrees of signs than in others. I always feel sorry for any person born with liis 
ruling planet out of all Essential Dignities and in cadent houses, and in no good aspects to fortu- 
ivite planets, and the Moon, and the P:nt of Fortune afflicted ; such persons are drudges or n enials 
neiriy all of their lives and generally die in poverty. I should have been more fortunate if the 
D.rigorj's Tail had not been in my midheaven, and the Part of Fortune had not been so 
afflicted bv Mercury applying to an opposition of it from the tenth house, and Mais making a 
squ.ire from the sixth house, and the Moon my significator in the twelfth house just leaving a 
square. 

There are some persons so dull or obtuse as not to be able to distinguish any of these finer 
influences in astrologv, or indeed in anv other art or science; as there are persons that cannot 
take oleasnre in music on account of their inability to distinguish between the tunes ''Old 
Hundred" and "Yankee Doodle," and there are others who cannot understand anything that is 
nol hammered into them as if by a sledge hammer. 



244 ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 



GOOD AND EVIL PLANETARY HOURS. 

" The lucky have whole days, and these they choose : 
The unlucky have but hours, and these they lose." — Drydkn. 
"There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.'' — 
Shakespeakk. 

" To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven ; a time to be 
born and a time to die ; * * * a time to kill, and a time to heal ; * * * a time to get, and a time 
to lose." — Solomon. 

The meaning of the above is, that fortunate persons when they in- 
tend to transact any particular business, or make any special changes in 
their lives, choose " : ibrtunat2 hours " or u lucky times " for that purpose, 
such as getting mairied, removing, taking journeys, going into any new 
business, performing surgical operations, beginning treatment of patients, 
changing the medicine, etc. 

The unlucky persons not knowing these fortunate hours, and having 
no intuition or knowledge to guide them, often choose " unfortunate 
hours" to commence important undertakings, which cause these under- 
takings to generally end in disaster ; and although they may have 
short periods of good fortune, not knowing when these "fortunate 
hours " occur they do not succeed, and their "Lives," as Shakespeare 
says, " are bound in shallows and in miseries." 

In ancient times, or before the Christian Dispensation it was custom- 
ary to ascertain the good and evil times by calculating the movements 
of the heavenly bodies, and all important business was commenced 
under fortunate " Planetary influence," and in " fortunate hours," such 
as turning the first "sod," laying the first "stone," or driving the first 
"pile" on which to erect an important building or structure. (See 
note on page of the Appendix.) 

It is just possible that choosing these " fortunate " times for the com- 
mencement of large constructions may have' had something to do with 
the duration of these ancient buildings, as for example, the Catacombs 
and Pyramids of Egypt, the ruins of Babylon, and the numerous 
Temples of Greece and Rome, and other ancient structures referred to 
by Volney, and other writers in their account of the ruins of ancient 
cities. Mr. Volney in his book on "Ancient Ruins " furnishes sub- 
stantial proof of the attention which our forefathers gave to Zodiacal 
and Planetary influence in relation to the time of commencing their 
buildings and large constructions. 

It is impossible to explain why the time for the commencement of 
any new business, or the erection of any important building, should have 
anything to do with the future prosperity of that business, or the long 
duration of these buildings, any more than it is possible to explain why 
the time when the child draws the first breadth of life, and the aspects 
of the heavenly bodies, and the positions of the signs of the Zodiac, 
should have anything to do with the life, death, sickness, health, pros- 
perity or adversitv of that child; but such are the facts, and which 
facts can be proved in thousands and even millions of instances. We 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 245 

have to take these facts as we find them, as we take thousands of 
other facts or occurences, without any proof beyond the facts themselves. 
We cannot reason on them, until we have enough to formulate a science, 
after being arranged into methodical order. 

Astrologers like other persons in the various conditions and walks 
of life, have had differences ; some have believed certain parts of 
astrology which others have not. Astrologers might be compared to the 
two classes of homcepathic physicians, one of them being high potency 
and the other low potency. There are artrologers who do not believe 
in the high potency of Astrology, or in anything they cannot calculate, 
and get positive or ponderable proof of ; they do not believe in any of 
the imponderables in Astrology ; For instance, Ihese Astrologers take 
but little stock in the " Part of Fortune," the " Dragon's Head " and 
the "Dragon's Tail," the "Planetary Hours," and the "Essential Dig- 
nities of the Planets," etc. Some will even deny the special influences 
of each of the "twelve houses " as they are termed, and will only believe 
or notice the angles, or the points of the heavens of the rising, setting, 
and the culminating of the Sun, Moon and planets ; and the nadir, or 
that point opposite the midheaven. 

Professor Wilson was one of the latter kind of Astrologers, and yet 
no one was more emphatic in his belief of Astrology, and had less pati- 
ence with the unbelievers in that science. In his Dictionary of 
Astrology in answer to the objectors and sceptics in Astrology, he makes 
use of the following language : 

" As to the common place objections against Astrology, they are too 
superficial to be worth a moment's attention, much less to deter an active 
mind from pursuing its researches. A small degree of penetration in a 
student will soon enable him to perceive that his adversaries are men of 
little knowledge, or great prejudice, with very limited capacities, and almost 
incapable of reflection ; without any original thoughts, or indeed thoughts 
at all, except what they have borrowed from such as have made but few ob- 
servations of their own, respecting themselves or the universe in general ; 
they are men that are either absorbed in other speculations than those of 
nature, or who think only by permission ; that would believe the legend, 
and deny the existence of the antipodes if others about them did the same. 
With them the <vox populi is truly the 'vox Dei ; the only argument capable 
of convincing them is a great show of hands ; and any absurd hypothesis, 
having the major part of the world on its side, (a thing not very uncommon,) 
would soon add them to the number of its disciples. I know that in answer 
to this the opinions of learned men maybe quoted, but learning is not always 
united with discernment or real knowledge, any more than the words of a 
talking bird, are united with ideas. Learning is a mechanical acquirement 
that may be posessed by a very silly person ; and of this we have number- 
less instances. With such men reason is useless; they would oppose custom 
to reason, and authorities to facts. I once had an argument with one of 
these, a person of extensive learning and uniform dullness, except when re- 
lieved at intervals by a most unaccountable, persevering obstinacy. We 
were speaking of the Moon, which he denied had any influence on the 
weather. I pointed out to him and even predicted several instances, wherein a 
change of weather would take place, which most or all of them were verified 



246 ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 

and I won some trifling wagers from him on this score ; but though still 
vanquished, as Goldsmith says, he would still argue, and with as much ob- 
stinacy as if he had never been proved to be in the wrong I then began to 
appeal to his reason, and asked him, ' If the Moon could move a fluid of 
such gravity as water, why it might not more easily affect or influence the 
atmosphere, which was more light and elastic?' He denied that I could 
prove that it did affect the water, Surely, said I, the tides prove that 5 this 
too, he denied. He admitted that it was a strange coincidence of periods, 
but contended that they might have been as they are, had the Moon never 
existed. I had some inclination to make him affirm (which I easily could 
have done,) that day and night, and summer and winter might have been 
the same as they are, had the Sun never existed} but I was weary of his 
folly." 

Students will readily perceive that no one could be more positive and 
emphatic in his belief in Astrology than Mr. Wilson. Indeed had he 
not been a firm believer in that science he would never have compiled, 
written and published his " Dictionary of Astrology," which work 
evinces a degree of learning and research that is truly marvellous, and 
had he had an equally extensive practice in Astrology, he would have 
been a thorough believer in the " Part of Fortune " the " Twelve 
Houses" and the " Dragon's Head" and "Dragon's Tail," and the 
"Essential Dignities," etc. 

There are astrologers similar to myself, who may oe classed as the 
" high potency " astrologers, and who believe whatever occurs in the 
heavens, has a corresponding influence on the earth, and whatever posi- 
tions the various heavenly bodies assume in the heavens, have a cor- 
sponding effect on the earth ; and who believe in the principles of 
Astrology similar to the poet Thomas Niel who wrote the following 
lines, and which contain more truth than poetry. 

" I tell thee, 
"There is not a pulse beats in the human frame 
That is not governed by the stars above us, 
The blood that fills our veins, in all its ebb 
And flow, is swayed by them as certainly 
As are the restless tides of the salt sea 
By the resplendent moon : and at thy birth 
Thy mother's eye, gazed not more steadfastly 
On thee, than did the star that rules thy fate, 
Showering upon thy head an influence 
Malignant or benign." 

The above lines prove that Mr. Neil was what we might term a " high 
potency" astrologer. 

The poet Dryden may be classed among the high potency astrologers, 
if we may judge by the following remarks, which he made to his wife, 
after he had calculated the horoscope of his son Charles. He told lady 
Dryden that the child was born in an evil hour, meaning an evil 
" planetary hour," which was one of the hours of Saturn or Mars, and 
as he said " the lord of the ascendant was afflicted with a hateful square of 
both Saturn and Mars," and being born in the hour of one of those 
planets made that aspect more unfortunate or evil. 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. ±^J 



Also we may class the poet Goethe among the high potency Astrolo- 
gers, if we may judge by what he states in his autobiography. He tells 
us : ' ' My horoscope was propitious ; the Sun was in the sign of the virgin 
and had culminated for the day. Jupiter and Venus looked on him with 
a friendly eye, and Mercury not adversely, while Saturn and Mars kept 
themselves indifferent. The Moon alone just full exerted the power of her 
reflection all the more, as she had just reached her " 'planetary hour.' " 

John Kepler, may also be classed among the high potency astrologers, 
where he says: "A most unfailing experience of the excitement of 
-ublunary natures by the conjunctions and aspects of the planets, has 
instructed and compelled my unwilling belief." 

Remarks on the Planetary Hours. 

The planetary hour is not the ordinary sixty minutes of the clock 
time, but the period of Sunrise to Sunset, divided into twelve equal 
parts ; each part being a "planetary hour" of that day. From Sunset 
to Sunrise is also divided into twelve equal parts, and each part is a 
" planetary hour" of that night. 

One of the main reasons why " planetary hours " have been so ne- 
glected by modern astrologers, is the difficulty in calculating those 
" hours," especially in the higher latitudes where the days are very long 
in the Summer months, (as in England, Scotland, Sweden and Norway,) 
and where the days are so short in the winter months. Also the difficulty 
in counting the planets in their proper order, from sunrise of that par- 
ticular day to the hour and minute the astrologers wish to attend to any 
important business, or the time a person was born. 

I have succeeded in getting up a set of " Tables of Planetary Hours," 
that by inspecting and knowing the day of the week, month, and the 
day of the month, and the hour of day, one can easily find which planet 
rules that particular "Planetary Hour" and see when any planet's hour 
begins, and when it ends, and by these tables a person can choose " for- 
tunate planetary hours " to transact any important business or commence 
a new undertaking ; and can guard against beginning those undertakings 
in evil hours. Not only that, but the student can avoid making the 
mistakes which were very common, in counting the planets and the 
hours from sunrise or sunset, to the hour and minute he wishes to 
calculate them to. 

If the student turns to pages 14, 15, 16 and 17 of this volume, he 
will find an explanation of the origin of the names of the days in the 
week, and of the order in which they run. 

On page 14 he will find a table illustrating why Sunday follows Sat- 
urday, and Monday follows Sunday, and so on of all the other days in 
the week. These days were arranged on the principle of the first hour 
after sunrise of that day, being dedicated to the planet which it is named 
after, or the planet which rules that day. 

We have no historical account of the time when the days were first 
arranged in the order we now have them. It even goes back long before 
any written record, or the building of the Pyramids of Egypt, and is 
even older than the Three Towers of Babylon. 



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ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 



The order of the days and their arrangement into seven, or one 
quarter of a Moon, or the fourth of a month, so harmonizes with the 
laws of nature that it has penetrated into every nation that is even half 
civilized, and has been adopted by those nations in every quarter of the 
globe. Not only that, but they have been called by the names of the 
planets, and used by the people in all ages or at least as far back as we 
have any record. 

The Latin and the French languages up to the r resent diy make use 
of the names of the planets, for all the names of ihe days ;f the week, 
except Sunday.* 

As already stated in pages 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17, and illustrated in the 
Table of Planetary Hours on page 14, that the planet rules the day it is 
named after, and also rules the first hour after sunrise ; that the seven 
planets have each a day of the week allotted to them, and that the order 
of the planets are reckoned from the phnet Saturn inwards towards thz 
Moon, and the first hour of the day after sunrise is ruled by the plane: 
that the day is named after, therefore on Sunday the Sun rules the f> ' 

* Whenever I have lectured on the "Planetary Hours," someone of the audience has taken ex- 
ception to the idea that certain names of the days of the week have been changed and named after 
some notable General, and will insist that they are named in honor of deities or pagan gods. I 
cannot bring to mind in which History of England I have seen the names of those pagan generals 
mentioned, and stated that the names of certain days of the week were called after them. I think 
it is Lingard in his His.ory of England mentioned ''Twi " and stated that Tuesday was named 
after that General- Mrs- Anna Bowman in her book on Travels in Norway and Sweden gives 
the account of the church, and the two graves where Thorr and h ; s wife Frea are buried, also 
states that Thursday and Friday were named in honor of them. " Wolden '' or man of the woods, 
has been named in a number of histories as being a noted General and afterwards became a deity 
or Saint after his death, and Wednesday was named in honor of him. 

Mr. Isaac Sharpless and Professor G. M. Phillips in their astronomy mention that Tuesday, 
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday are named after four English deities. ' Nothing could be more 
ridiculous than that, as the ancient Druids did not have any deities, or Pagan gods, like the Pagans 
on the northern part of Europe ; they were gieat observers of the laws ot nature, and of the heav- 
enly bodies, especially the rising and setting of the Sun. Moon, and the various planets as can be 
proved by the ruins of S ton ehenge, which still remain on Salisbury Plains, Wiltshire, England. 
No matter what names some of the days of the week are no-.v called, one thing is certain, that in 
old or ancient languages, as tile Latin, the names of the days of the week were all named after the 
planets, which rule these davs, and thev were afterwards changed in the modern European lan- 
guages, such as the German, Italian, English, etc, all of which are corruptions of the ancient Latin. 

The following table No. i, gives the names which the French use at the present day, for the 
names of the days of the week, and which thev have used from time immemorial. The student 
will see that each day of the week is designated by the French names of the planets which rules 
that day, except Sunday ; and in some way that has got changed, as Soleil is the French name for 
the Sun. The word Dimanche is supposed to be a corruption of the Latin "Dominica'' or the 
Lord's day, the English still retain the name of Sunday or Sun's dav, and the German's Sonntag. 
or Sunday, for the first day of the week. 

The French, during the Revolution, divided the months into three decades'of ten days each, and 
gave the following Latin numerical terms for the names for the respective days of the Decade in 
the order as given in the 2d Table. Rut by Napoleon's command this new svstem was abolished, 
as it was found to be too artificial for general use, and at variance with planetary laws. The 
Gregorian Calender was resumed on Jan 1st. 1807. 

TABLE No. 1. I TABLE No. 2. 



French Names of the Days of 
the Week. 

Dimanche Sundav. 

Lundi Monday. 

Mardi Tuesday. 

Mercredi Wednesday. 

Jeudi Thursday.' 

Vendredi Friday 

Samedi Saturday. 



Names of the Days of the Decade used 

by the fkench duking the 

French Revolution. 

1st Primidi. 6th Sextidi. 

2d Duodi. 7th Septidi. 

3d Tridi. 8tb Octidi. 

4th Quartidi. 9th Nonidi. 

5th Quintidi. 10th Decadi. 



The names of the days of the week in the German language, is very similar to that in the 
English language. They are called Sonntag, Montagr. Dienstag, Mittwoch, Donnerstag, Fritag, 
Sarastag. Tag meaning day in German- 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 



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hour after sunrise, Venus rules the second hour, Mercury rules the third, 
the Moon rules the fourth, Saturn rules the fifth, Jupiter rules the sixth, 
Mars rules the seventh, the Sun rules the eighth, Venus rules the ninth, 
Mercury the tenth and the Moon the eleventh, as the student will see 
in the " Perpetual Tables of Planetary Hours, from Sunrise to 2 Hours 
after Sunset" on page 255, and also in the following table. 

Sun governs the first hour after Sunrise on Sunday. 
Moon governs the first hour after Sunrise on Monday. 
Mars governs the first hour after Sunrise on Tuesday. 
Mercury governs the first hour after Sunrise on Wednesday. 
Jupiter governs the first hour after Sunrise on Thursday. 
Venus governs the first hour after Sunrise on Friday. 
Saturn governs the first hour after Sunrise on Satnrday. 

Signification of the Planetary Hours, and what 
use may be made of them. 

The significance of the planetary hours, and the matters, or kinds of 
business they rule, and the manner in which they may be used to advan- 
tage are clearly explained by old astrologers. I here give their teach- 
ing, not only because it is curious and interesting, but also because it is 
based on sound astrological rules and principles. 

1 he Influence of the Planetary Hours of the Sun, Moon 

and the Five Planets. 

The Hour of ^ . 

614 In the Hour of Saturn take no voyage to Sea, neither 
take any long" journey by land, for crosses will assuredly at- 
tend, and small success may be expected ; take no medicine, for 
it will produce harm rather than good, and engage no ser- 
vants, for they will prove ; .dle, careless and worthless persons ; 
Evil to put on new garments or cut your hair; but this hour 
is good to buy, or take leases of houses or lands ; good to buy 
any kind of grain, or to dig in the earth, or plow ; not good 
to borrow money in this hour or to lend it. It is an evil 
hour to fall sick in, for it threatens a long disease and liable 
to terminate in death. 

The Hour of 2f. 

615 In the Hour of fupiter, it is good to apply to ecclesias- 
tical persons, or persons in office, and all great or wealthy men 
such as lawyers, judges, senators, etc., to obtain their favor. 
In this hour it is good to go out of the house, to commence a 
journey to have it end with success; good to sow all kind of 
seeds or to plant ; not good to let blood ; he that falls sick in 



256 ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 

this hour will soon recover; also good to lend or borrow 
money ; not good to enter a ship ; not good to buy cattle. 
This hour is good to propose marriage, or contract matri- 
mony, etc. 

The Hour of $ . 

616 In the Hour of Mars begin no worthy action, or impor- 
tant undertaking, or great enterprise, for it is a very unfortu- 
nate hour, and therefore it is an hour to be avoided ; it is ill to 
take or commence a journey, for you will be in danger of 
thieves ; very ill to take a voyage to sea, and generally evil 
for all things, especially for surgical operations, etc. It is 
an evil hour; therefore to be shunned as much as possible. 

The Hour of G>. 

617 The Hour of the Suit is not to be chosen, as it is gener- 
ally unfortunate, unless in making application, or asking 
favors of wealthy or influential persons ; not good to begin a 
building, or put on new garments; not good to enter a new 
house, or remove into a house, for discontent and brawling 
may then be expected to follow ; this hour is good for a man to 
receive preferment in ; not good to court the female sex as 
they will try to control you ; do not pay, or lend money upon 
on any account ; it is also a very critical hour to be taken ill, 
as the sickness is liable to be dangerous, and violent. 

The Hour of $ . 

618 In the Hour of Venus it is good to court women, or to 
begin a journey, but not a long voyage; good to enter upon 
any play, sport or pastime ; not good to let blood ; good to 
go out of a man's or friend's house with success; but not so 
good to return again to it ; but good to enter your own home ; 
good to take medicine ; but if a man falls sick in the Hour 
of Venus, the disease proceeds from self-indulgence, or in 
temperance, or caused someway by females; this hour is 
generally good to undertake any business relating to what 
concerns women, or any delightful actions ; not good to begin 
to make new garments, but singularly good to propose mar- 
riage, and contract Matrimony. Good for either men or 
women to have dealing with females. 

The Hour of $ . 

619 The Hour of Mercury 'is very good to deal in merchan- 
dise, or buy or sell, or to write letters ; to send messengers ; 
to take medicine; to send children to school; to begin a 
journey ; to lend or borrow money ; to put forth or bind 
apprentices ; to begin any building ; but not good to contract 
marriage ; or to buy houses or lands ; or to re-enter your 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOCY. 25 1 

house after being on a journey, or after going abroad, lest 
discontent or brawling arise ; not good to take or hire a ser- 
vant ; or to redeem a prisoner ; but good to plant or graft ; 
and finally good to ask favors from wealthy or prominent 
persons. 

The Hour of J. 
620 The Hour of t lie Moon is not counted a good hour to buy 
cattle, especially of the smaller kind; nor to take medicine; 
or begin any building; not good to lend money; or to 
make or put on new clothes; it is a good hour to court 
the female sex; or send children to school; and in some 
cases to take a journey; or to pursue an enemy, or begin a 
lawsuit ; and to conclude, you may make choice of this hour 
to leave your native country, (if designed to travel) but 
choose the hour of Venus to enter your house or return, and 
to re-enter your own country again. 

Remarks on the Planetary Hours 

The signification of the Planetary Hours are very ancient and was 
approved and made use of by the Arabians, and by nearly all the 
Eastern and Asiatic nations, and are so made use of even to the present 
day, and they are confirmed by astrologers generally, and by Haly and 
later authors, and are of great use in all ordinary business; though they 
are not of that efficacy or influence as the calculations of the movements 
of the heavenly bodies, for the finding out and choosing a special time 
to commence any new business or important undertaking, and which 
time does also sympathize or agree with the horoscope of the native. 

By observing the following Tables of Planetary Hours, the reader, 
even if he knows nothing of Astrology can choose fortunate periods to 
begin any particular undertaking, or removal, or to commence any im- 
portant change in his life.* 

I have made many thousands of observations and calculated the posi- 
tions of the planets for the time that people have got married, or made 
any particular change of their life, such as removal, or going into any 
new business, etc, and it almost invariably proved the truth of Astrol- 
ogy ; for when they have made these changes at unfortunate periods or 
under what are termed evil aspects, they almost invariably ended un- 
fortunately, or some way disastrously to the parties. But when they 
made important changes, or commenced new undertakings under fortu- 
nate aspects, they generally turned out successfully to the persons who 
commenced them. 

* During February 1897 I went to hear a lecture on Astrology in New York City, but as the 
speaker was taken ill during the lecture I was called upon to continue the subject. When I had 
finished, the sick man having recovered, lie said that if any of the audience would tell him the 
time they had received a letter, or met a person, or anv persons had called to see them, etc.. he 
would tell them whether the letter contained good or bad news, etc- , or whether the meeting of the 
friend was favorable or not. I was much surprised to learn from the interogators that they all 
stated that each of the answers the astrologer gave were correct, He did it by calculating thtgood 
and evil Planetary Hours, 



252 ELEMENTS OF ASTROEOGY. 

The first time I obtained or acquired perfect confidence in M Plane- 
tary Hours" was in the year 1870, when I was practising medicine at 
Saratoga, "N. Y. I had then leisure to calculate each Planetary 
Hour during the day, so that I could choose fortunate hours to visit my 
patients, or to change the medicine, etc., or to have them call and see 
me at my office, I found this method attended with great success, so 
much so, that the people that I was acquainted with, or knew of me. 
often made the remark that whenever Dr. Broughton commenced 
treating any patient, they all began to improve or get well* 

The reason that the influence of the Planetary Hours can be observed 
and applied to good advantage with sick people, is that generally when a 
person is in poor health he feels the changes of the weather, currents of 
air, damp or chilly atmosphere, noises, etc., or anything which disturbs 
the nervous system more than when in perfect health. He also feels 
the Planetary Influence in a more marked degree at those times. In 
short it is the Planetary Influence that makes him sick, and the slighter 
effects of the planets,, which at another time would only affect his wife; 
his parents or near relations, or affect his business, will, when he is sick, 
fall directly on himself, consequently we can more easily notice the 
effect of the good and evil influence of the " Planetary Hours" on a sick 
patient, and thus make use of them to benefit his health, or promote his 
recovery. 

The various good and evil planets, in their planetary hours do no* 
act on all persons alike. The positions, the strength, and the various 
aspects of the planets in an individual's horoscope, have all to bt noticed 
and taken into account when judging the good or evil infl lence of 
" planetary hours" on any particular individual. 



* Should the reader be a physician, and wish to make use of astrology in his practice, I would 
advice him not to let any of his patients, or even any other physician know, that he has any knowl- 
edge of Astrology, or that he is making any use of it in any way connected with his treatment. 
Of course the prejudice against astrology is dying out, and it is nothing now to what it was 40 or 
50 years ago, but even now any physician would find it a great damage to him, if he should let any 
of his patients know that he is giving any attention to the subject. 

At this day religious communities would not expel a Sunday school teacher from the school and 
church, if it was known that he was studying astrology, and it is even becoming very unpopular to 
arrest people for practising this science in any part of the United States, or even in England, or 
other European countries : but the influence that would be brought to bear on the patient's mind, 
if it was known that the doctor used Astrology in his pratice would be a serions drawback against 
their recovery, or at least I have found it so in my practise. 

I give the following as a sample of what the doctor would have to fight against, if his patients dis- 
cover that he is studying astrology, even if he cured them, they will be ashamed of themselves, 
and sorry they ever got well. 

Some Jo years ago when I was treating Mr William Keeny's son, in Lafayette, Jersey City, his 
mother used to tell me that all the neighbors were talking to her, and wondering how she could 
sleep ih her bed at night, when she had such an impostor, fraud, and humbug as Dr. Broughton, 
treating her son In course of time, that kind of talk had an effect on her mind, to please her 
neighbors she changed doctors, but afterwards she was glad to re-engage me, although too late to 
save her son. The family told all the friends and neighbors that had they not discharged Dr. 
Broughton, the son would certainly have recovered. 

I have found the use of astrology in mv practise of infinite advantage, and had I simply prac- 
tised medicine, and used astrologv in a quiet wav, no phvsiciun would have been more fortunate 
than myself, in making cures, but people of standing or of art v influence in society, are afraid of it 
being known, that they have an astrologer for a doctor, therefore the advantage the phvsician gains 
by being successful in his practise, he loses again through the ignorance and superstition of his 
patients and their friends. While I was in Saratoga, I did not let my patients know I used astro- 
logy in treating their diseases. 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 253 

For instance the man whose horoscope I referred to on pa^e 222 
who had Jupiter so afflicted in the eighth house, would scarcely ever be 
able to accomplish much, or have any good luck in the "hour of Jupi- 
ter," and the hours of Mars and Saturn would be more marked evil for 
him, on account of Saturn afflicting his ascendant, and Mars so afflicted 
in the iith house, Bur as he had the Sun in the midheaven, and also 
Venus in the 9th house, in its own sign, (Taurus,) in trine to Saturn, 
in the ascendant, his most fortunate planetary hours would be those 
of Venus and the Sun. 

Possibly the reason that I could notice the marked influence of Plane- 
tary Hours, while treating sick patients, is on account of Saturn and 
Mars afflicting my horoscope in such a marked manner at birth. Mars 
being in the 6th house, (the house of sickness, ) and also being in square 
to Mercury in the midheaven, 'and in opposition to the Moon my ruling 
planet, and also Saturn afflicting my 12th house, (or the house of secret 
enemies,) in the sign Cancer and the Moon my ruling planet making a 
conjunction of Saturn. These planetary influences make the evil Plane- 
tary Hours of both Saturn and Mars doubly evil in my horoscope. Jupi- 
ter in the 5th house, and lord of both the 9th and 10th houses, and also 
lord of the 6th house, and the Moon rising in close trine to Jupiter; and 
also Venus in the l lth house, unafflicted and lady of the l lth, and the 
Sun in the midheaven at my birth, makes the hours of Jupiter, Venus, 
the Moon and the Sun, doubly fortunate for me ; and their influence in 
any business, etc., which I may undertake in their planetary hovers, and 
especially in the commencement of treating the sick. 

The reason I have given the planetary hours that would have the 
most marked effect in the above horoscopes, is that the student may 
learn to judge for himself what planetary hours will have the most 
marked effect in any special horoscope he may calculate. He should 
always bear in mind no matter whether the planet is good or evil, according 
to these terms in astrology ; that planet which is the strongest, and best 
aspected in any special horoscope is good for the native in that nativ- 
ity. Thererore it is possible that the planetary hours of Mars, may 
in certain horoscopes be the most fortunate hours for some persons; 
especially if they are born under that pknet, and it is strong in its own 
sign, exaltation or joy, in the midheaven, or in good aspect to his 
ascendant, Sun, Moon, Jupiter or Venus, at these person's time of birth, 
then the planetary hour of Mars will be the most fortunate for that 
native to commence any special undertaking or business for himself. But 
if he wants to deal with other people, or to get the good will of other 
persons, no matter how strong the planet Mars may be in his horoscope, 
he must choose the planetary hour of Jupiter, Venus or the Sun, in 
asking favors or gaining any benefit from others, as he does not know but 
that the planetary hours of Jupiter, Venus, Sun or Mercury may be the 
strongest planets in these other person's horoscopes, and therefore these 
planetary hours are the best for these persons to grant any favors. Be- 
sides these hours are generally fortunate and they are the most safe for 
you to ask favors or benefit from others in, and generally these parties 



2^4 ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 

are more likely to grant these favors when they are approached in what 
is termed good planetary hoars, especially if you have fortunate planetary 
influences operating in your own horoscope at the same time. 

Before I noticed the good and evil influence of the Planetary Hours 
in regard to sick persons, I never had much confidence in them, as I 
could get no marked effect when I tried to use them in ordinary busi- 
ness, but since 1870 I have been able to notice them much more closely, 
and with great advantage. 

Tables of Planetary Hours Which Commence on Page 25$. 

By inspecting them the student will see that the hours are calculated 
from Sunrise until two hours after Sunset. The first column in each 
table includes both the commencement of the planetary hour and 
its end ; in all the other columns the houp and minute is printed when a 
planetary hour ends, and the name of the planet is printed in that col- 
umn, and the column preceding gives the hour and minute when that 
planetary hour commences. The two hours after Sunset gives the length 
of the planetary hours of the night, for each day in the year that the 
Tables are printed for, and therefore any person who wishes to find 
what particular planet rules before Sunrise, has only to deduct from the 
hour and minute the length of the planetary hour of the night fro-m the 
hour and minute given of the first figures printed in the first column of 
the Table, and count in the order of the planets from the Moon to 
the planet Saturn. Should the student wish to find what planet 
rules the hour and the length of the hour after Sunset, he can add the 
bngth of the planetary hour of the night to the last column after Sun- 
set, and continue counting the planets from Saturn inward towards the 
Moon. By doing so he can easily find what planet rules any speeial 
hour of the night or early morning. 

Near the 21st of March or the 21st of September in any year 
it is very easy to reckon the planetary hours from sunrise to sun- 
set, also from sunset to sunrise. The student should always bear 
in mind that the first hour of the day is always ruled by the planet 
that rules that day ; therefore on Sunday near the above dates, the 
Sun rules from the hour and minute that it rises to one hour after sunrise 
Venus rules from one hour after sunrise to two hours after sunrise and 
so on in that order of the planets. 

If the student turns to page 258 of the planetary hours where it 
reads, " on or near the second day of May of any year " he will find 
that the planetary hours through the day is one hour and ten minutrs; 
therefore he can reckon the hour before sunrise to any part of the early 
morning by calling each planetary hour fifty minutes, being ten minutes 
less on the hour, and so on in any of the other tables. 

The student should also bear in mind that the last hour of any day 
is ruled by the planet next preceding the one which rules the following 
day. For instance on Saturday the last hour of the night is ruled by 
the planet Mars, and the hour previous to that is ruled by the planet 
Jupiter, and so on of all other planets and planetary hours of the night. 



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268 ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 



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ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 



285 



The Difference Between Clock or Mean and Solar Time. 

The time that I have used in calculating the Tables of the fore- 
going Planetary Hours from Sunrise until two hours after Sunset, is what 
is called the apparent time, the time given in the Almanac being what 
is termed the mean time. Some modern authors of Astrology appear to 
think that the mean time must be corrected by applying thereto the 
equation of time given in the Almanac for the given day. 

The old authors of works on Astrology gave what was termed the 
solar time, or apparent time, but I have not followed the teachings of 
the old authors in this respect. 

The Equation of time, or the Sun's time as shown by a Sun dial, 
and by setting the clock at 12 noon each day, when the Sun is exactly 
on the meridian. The Sun's time agrees with the true or mean time 
only on four days of the year. These are April 15, June 15, Sept. 1st 
and Dec. 25th. See Table of Equation of Time on next page. 

The greatest difference between Solar time and mean time, occurs on 
Feb. 10th, when the clock is then iq minutes fast. On May 14th 
the clock is 4 minutes slow. On July 25th the clock is 6 minutes 
fast, and on Nov. 2d the clock is 16 minutes slow. 

The reason of the inequality in a solar day, and the mean or sidereal 
time, is caused by the earth being in perihelion, or nearest the Sun on 
or near the 31st of Dec, when it moves more rapidly around the Sun 
than in any other part of its orbit ; but when in its aphelion, on or 
near the 30th of June, it moves more slowly. 

The only time it can possibly make much difference in the foregoing 
Tables, will be near the 10th of Feb., the 14th of May, the 21st of June, 
and the 2d of Nov. ; at each of these times it is possible that the time 
in the foregoing Planetary Hours may not exactly agree, or the plane- 
tary hour may begin and end a few minutes sooner, or begin and end-a 
few minutes later than the time marked in the foregoing Tables, reckon- 
ing by clock time, as the old authors used the solar time, and for fear 
there might be some variation, and the student wishes to make observa- 
tions as to whether the time agrees in all cases with the Planetary 
Influences marked in the planetary hours, I have inserted a Table of 
Equation of Time from Jan. 1st to the end of Dec, answering for 
any year, by the use of which the student can make observations and 
compare the mean or clock time with the solar time. 

For several weeks near April 15th, June 15th, Sept. 1st and Dec. 
25 th, the tables of planetary hours and the clock time must agree. 
The student, if he chooses to be very exact, can correct the clock time 
with the solar time, by adding when the clock is slow the number 
of minutes and seconds marked in the perpetual table of equation of time 
from April lijth. to June 14th, and from Sept. 1st to Dec 24th, and by 
subtracting during the other parts of the year, that is : from Dec. 26th 
to April 15th, and from June 16th to Aug 31st, he can make obser- 
vations of the planetary influence, for instance, of Jupiter or Saturn, 
marked in the table of planetary hours, and see if they agree near the 
beginning and the end of said planetary hours. 



2 S6 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 



After the student has made a number of observations near the beginning 
or the end of the Planetary Hours, during or near Feb. loth, May 14th, 
July 25th, Nov. 2d, and he finds from experience that the observation 
and the planetary influence marked in the Perpetual Table of Planetary 
Hours do not coincide, I would be glad if he would communicate with 
me, giving the result of his observations. It is only by experiments and 
observations, that we can prove or disprove the Science of Astrology. 

The foregoing tables of Planetary Hours from page 255 to 285 are 
the first tables of that kind that has ever been calculated or published, 
or at least that I have ever met with. Henry Cooley, on pages 266 and 
267 of his " Key to Astrology," attempted to get up Tables of Planetary 
Hours, but they are practically useless. Therefore this is the first time 
that it could be tested by observation whether the " Solar Time " or 
the " Mean or Clock Time " is the proper or right time, that the 
Planetary Hours ought to be calculated for. 

Perpetual Table of Equation of Time. 





Jan. 


Feb. 


Mar. 


Apr. 


May. 


June. 


July. 


Aug. 


Sept 


Oct. 


Nov. 


D-ec 






Subt. 


Subt. 


Subt. 


Subt 


Add. 


Add. 


Subt 


Subt. 


Add. 


Add. 


Add. 


Add. 






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M. S. 


M. S. 
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3-0 


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M. S. 


M. S. 


M. S- 


M. S. 


M. S. 


M. S. 




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4-1 


2-30 


3-28 


6-5 


0-3 


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16-18 


IO-52 


1 


2 


4-1 j 


13-58 


12-24 


3-43 


3-7 


2-21 


339 


6-1 


0-22 


IO-35 


16-19 


IO-29 


2 


3 


4-41 


14-4 


12-11 


3-25 


3-14 


2-12 


3-51 


5-57 


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3 


4 


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3-20 


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4-2 


5-52 


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19-19 


9-41 


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5 


5-36 


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2-49 


3-26 


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5-47 


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11-30 


16-18 


9-17 


5 


6 


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2-32 


3-3i 


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4-23 


5-41 


1-40 


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16-15 


8-51 


6 


7 


6-29 


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2-14 


3-35 


I-30 


4-33 


5-34 


2-0 


12-5 


16-12 


8-26 


7 


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1-58 


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5-27 


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12-22 


16-9 


7-59 


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12-38 


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7-6 


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11 


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5-17 


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12 


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9-43 


0-36 


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5-24 


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13 


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15-28 


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5-59 


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6-12 


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14-31 


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19 


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11-16 


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6-2 


3-15 


6-33 


15-7 


14-17 


2-18 


20 


21 


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13-53 


7-23 


1-18 


3-40 


1-23 


6-6 


3-1 


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1-48 


21 


22 


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7-5 


1-30 


3-36 


1-36 


6-9 


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7-15 


15-26 


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22 


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12-5 


13-37 


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1-42 


332 


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15-34 


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13-28 


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2-1 


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6- 9 


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31 



Different Methods of Measuring Time by the Heavenly Bodies. 

Although the earth when in its perihelion travels faster than when it is in its aphelion, yet 
during both of these periods, it takes the same time to make a revolution on its axis. It has been 
observed with telescopes when pointed to anV particular star in the heavens, that at the ei d of 
exactly 24 hours, that star will pass a particular line, across the end of the telescope, and it ha* been 
known to do so for several hundred years, without any variation. That time is called "Sidereal, 
Mean, or Clock Time '' But as the earth is moving in its orbit around the Sun it has to navel 
four minutes more in the 24 hours to reach the same point, and that is called "apparent tin e; 
but on account of the Earth being in its perihelion, it travels faster than at other times and conr«j* 
quentlv Sun time is not uniform, and time measured in that manner is called *' Solar 1 me 
when deducting the four minutes from apparent time. Formerly it was customary to have a " Sun- 
dial " in each churchyard, to find exactlv when the Sun arrives in the" Meridian ."and thev set their 
clocks for that time ; but since they have been able to measure time more accurate')' by clocks 
and by observation of the fixed stars bv telescopes. What is called " Sidereal or Mean Time " is 
the time they now use for measuring the rising, culminating and setting of the Sun. 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOCY. 287 



ELECTIONS, OR CHOOSING A FORTUNATE TIME 

TO COMMENCE NEW BUSINESS, REMOVAL 

OR REMARKABLE CHANGES. 

621 What is termed an election, is the choosing- or select- 
ing a fortunate time to commence an undertaking. 

Besides choosing a fortunate planetary hour to commence 
any new business or undertaking, it is always advisable for 
the native to have his own nativity calculated, and see first 
whether he is fortunate in that particular line of business 
that he wishes to engage in. This can be seen or pointed 
out by the positions of the planets at the time of his birth. If 
the nativity denies success in that particular business, it 
is impossible to be successful by simply choosing a fortu- 
nate planetary hour, or making what is termed an election ; 
still he would be more fortunate by choosing a fortunate 
hour and making a good election, than he would by com- 
mencing the business in a haphazard manner, and without 
any regard to Planetary Influences. 

622 There are special rules in Astrology that have been 
known and have been acted upon, and continued to be made 
use of for thousands of years, by almost all civilized nations, 
although within the last two or three hundred years these 
rules have been very much neglected by the people in Europe 
and the United States ; yet there are people in these countries 
who imitate the ancient astrologers, and by doing so, they 
make themselves ridiculous. 

623 The people talk about the superstition of Astrology. 
But what is termed laying the corner stone of a church, or 
any other building is real superstition. The ancients called 
it the laying of the first stone, and they chose fortunate 
planetary influence to do it under, and selected a fortunate 
time for turning the sod, or breaking the ground previous to 
laying the first stone. 

624 Andrew H. Green imitated the ancients by turning 
the sod for the commencement of the bridge that is to cross 
the Hudson River; and Count De Lesseps turned the sod 
for the commencement of the Panama Canal in Central 
America, but neither of them attempted to select a fortunate 
time for that purpose. See page of Appendix. 

The following are a few choice rules for the choosing or 
electing fortunate times for any particular business. These 
rules are very old and are based on sound Astrological prin- 
ciples. 



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Election for Laying the First Stone of a Building. 

625 The old astrologers tell us to begin no building with 
the Moon in Pisces or Scorpio, having south latitude de- 
scending, for if you do it will soon fall. The most fortunate 
time to begin any new building, such as turning the sod, 
driving the first pile or laying the first stone, is when the 
Moon is in Aquarius, or when Aquarius ascends, and the 
Moon is in good aspect to the ascendant, and the fortunate 
planets, Jupiter and Venus, are in good aspect to the degree 
ascending. 

Election for Buying or Renting a House, Lands, Tenements, etc. 

626 The first thing to be attended to in buying or renting 
houses, etc., is to make as strong as possible the lord of the 
fourth house in the nativity, and also the fourth house in the 
horoscope of the election, together with the Moon ; also let 
the Moon apply by a sextile or trine to the lord of the fourth 
and the second house in the election horoscope ; also let as 
many of the significators that are lords of the fourth, tenth, 
first, second and seventh houses, be in reception if possible 
and in good places, both in the nativity and in the horoscope, 
and let a fixed sign be on the ascendant of the election. 

Election on Removal from one House to Anotlier. 

627 The change of habitation, house or lodgings, etc.. is 
best done when the Moon is in a fixed sign increasing in 
light, and at the same time in good aspect with fortunate 
planets in the fourth house, or ascendant of the election; 
the lord of the second house should, if possible, be strong, 
above the earth, and in sextile or trine to the lord of the 
seventh and the eighth houses, for that is the place the party 
must go to have profit or gain, and if the lord of the seventh 
or eighth houses are afflicted, then he goes or removes to his 
loss or misfortune. 

Election for Entering into new Business, Office or 

Employment. 

628 First, let the Sun or Moon be in their dignities or at 
least not afflicted by Saturn, Mars or Uranus. Second, let 
Jupiter be in the ascendant, and the Sun in the midheaven 
if possible. Third, let the seventh and second houses be 
strong and fortunate, for one signifies money and the other 
counsels for the native's assistance ; for if these houses are 
afflicted it shows great damage to the native. Let Jupiter 
and Venus be strong if possible, and in good aspect in the 
election horoscope. 



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Election for Commencing a Trade or Profession. 

629 Let the cusp of the tenth house in the nativity be the 
ascendant in the horoscope of the election, and let the lord 
of the ascendant and the Moon in the election, not only be free 
from affliction, but in sextile or trine to the lords of the 
second and tenth houses, and if possible let the fortunate 
planets Jupiter and Venus be in the ascendant, or the mid- 
heaven or in an angle of the election, and the unfortunate 
planets Saturn and Mars cadent, or in the third, sixth or 
twelfth houses. 

Election for Marriage. 

630 In all marriages the ascendant stands for the man, and 
the seventh house for the woman ; if the fortunate planets 
are in the ascendant, the marriage is best for the man, but 
if the fortunate planets are in the seventh house, the woman 
receives the most advantage by marriage. In all marriages 
do not let the Moon be combust, that is in conjunction with 
the Sun, on the marriage day, for that signifies deatjh of the 
man within two years after marriage; nor applying to com- 
bustion "Or new Moon, for that signifies an ill end for the 
parties getting married. It is very unfortunate in marriages 
for the Moon to apply to ether Saturn or Mars, though the 
aspect be ever so good, as there will be neither peace nor love 
between them. In all marriages let the Moon increase in light, 
or be going from the new Moon to the full Moon. Let the 
Moon be increasing iri motion and have no evil aspect to the 
Sun, nor any aspect at all to either Saturn or Mars. Venus 
is the one general significatrix, or the chief significator of hap- 
piness in all marriages, therefore it is best to let the Moon 
apply by good aspect to Venus. If the lord of the ascendant is 
weak, and the lord of the seventh is strong in the seventh 
house and a commanding planet, and in good aspect to Mars, 
the woman will domineer over her husband ; let not Saturn or 
Mars be in the seventh house, in any marriage for that makes 
the woman very ill tempered, and generally have poor health. 
Also Saturn, Mars or Uranus in the ascendant in a marriage 
makes the man very cross, ill tempered and generally he 
has poor health, 

631 In choosing an election for the marriage of men, let 
the Moon and Venus be strong and fortunate, and in good 
positions in the horoscope, and in good aspect to Jupiter, 
he being the author of peace and wealth. Also let him be in 
mutual reception with Venus, and in fortunate aspect to the 
lord of the ascendant. Let the seventh house and the 
Moon, and also the ascendant be free from affliction in such 



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signs as favor marriage, as Taurus, Libra, Sagittary, Aquar- 
ius and Pisces. In making an election for the marriage of 
women, you must notice the seventh house the Sun and Mars, 
as you did the ascendant, the Moon and Venus for a man's 
marriage. 

Election for Proposing Marriage. 

632 In Proposing Marriage do not let the Moon apply to a 
retrograde planet, no matter whether the aspect be good or 
evil, or the planet a fortunate or an unfortunate one, unless 
you wish the engagement to be broken off. 

633 If the Moon applies to Jupiter or Venus and they are 
retrograde, then something occurs to break off the marriage, 
and both the lady and gentleman are very sorry for 
it; if to an evil aspect of either of these planets retro- 
grade, then the breaking off of the engagement will be 
attended with much unhappiness to both parties. If the 
Moon applies by good aspect to either Saturn or Mars, and 
they are retrograde, this denotes that the engagement 
will end in a law-suit, or a breach of promise suit, or 
one of the parties will go away, and will not return. 
But if the Moon applies to an evil aspect of either Saturn or 
Mars, aud that planet is retrograde, then the breaking off of 
the engagement is certain to result in a law-suit for breach 
of promise; or should they marry, then a divorce will result, 
attended with much sensation. 

634 In all engagements or promises of marriage, let Venus 
be in the ascendant, or midheaven, and well aspected, and 
in some of her dignities. If possible let the Moon be sepe- 
rating from a good aspect of Jupiter, and making a good 
aspect to Venus unafflicted, and both direct and swift in mo- 
tion. 

635 Do not let an evil planet be in either the ascendant or 
seventh house, or in the eleventh or fifth houses. Let Saturn 
and Mars be cadent, and in no aspect to any planet, and let 
the Moon have no aspect to an unfortunate planet if it can be 
avoided. 

Election for Introduction to Ladies or Gentlemen. 

636 If a lady wishes to be introduced to a gentleman, 
choose the hour of Jupiter or the Sun, and let the Moon apply 
by sextile or trine aspect to Jupiter or the Sun, and do not let 
Saturn or Mars be in the ascendant, midheaven or seventh 
house. 

637 If a gentleman wishes to be introduced to a lady, 
choose the hour of Venus or the Moon, and let the Moon 



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apply by good aspect to Venus, and let Venus be in the 
ascendant, eleventh, tenth or seventh houses, and both Saturn 
and Mars cadent. 

Election for Going on a Journey. 

638 In beginning a journey choose that day and hour in 
which the Moon and the lord of the ascendant are in good 
aspect in the nativity. Let the eleventh and third houses, 
with their lords, be fortunate. Watery signs are best for 
sailing or travelling by water, but fixed signs for inland 
journeys. 

639 Likewise the kind of business must be considered 
which causes the native to take the journey, for if he goes 
to a king, president or governor, let the tenth house of the 
nativity ascend or be on the ascendant of the election, and 
let the planets that govern the persons he carries the errand 
to be strong and in good aspect to the lord of the ascendant 
or the Moon in the election, as the Moon is a general signifi- 
cator of all journeys, and let it be fortunate and free from 
affliction, and in good aspect with fortunate planets, or let 
the unfortunates be cadent, but not in the third or ninth 
houses. 

640 The eighth house shows what will happen to the 
traveller when he comes to the end of his journey, and the 
seventh house what will happen to him on the day he re- 
turns, and the second the profit on his return home ; so these 
houses and their lords must be fortunately placed that suc- 
cess may attend the journey and it end well. 

Election for Navigation, or Going on a Voyage. 

641 Start on a voyage if you can, when fortunate planets 
are in angles or in the ninth house, and do not let the Sun or 
Moon be afflicted by Saturn or Mars, neither let Saturn or 
Mars be in the third or ninth houses. 

642 Never start on a journey in the hours of either Saturn 
or Mars, for they show either loss, sickness, unhappiness or 
imprisonment. 

643 The Dragon's Tail in the third or ninth houses indi- 
cates cheating or robbery on the journey. 

644 Do not let Saturn be in the ascendant, nor a Fiery 
sign on the ascendant, for then there will be a watery sign 
on the eighth house, and there will be great danger of 
drowning or the ship going to the bottom, therefore com- 
mence your voyage, if possible, in the hours of Jupiter or 
Venus, and let the Moon apply by good aspect to one or both 
of these planets. 



20, 2 ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 

Election for Collecting a Debt, or Money that is Owing. 

645 Be sure to fortify that planet that is lord of the ascend- 
ant in the nativity, and also Jupiter, for, he is a natural sig- 
nificator of wealth and substance, and if possible let the lord 
of the ascendant of the nativity or Jupiter be placed in the 
second house, or essentially dignified, and in good aspect, 
and position in the horoscope of election ; free from affliction 
and in good aspect to Jupiter and Venus or lord of the second 
house. Let the party if possible, go to collect ^.he money 
in the hours of Jupiter or Venus. 

Elections to make Friendship Between Brothers, Sisters, 
Kindred, Neighbors, etc. 

646 On renewing or making Friendship between rela- 
tions and neighbors; choose a time when the lord of the 
ascendant in the 'nativity is in good aspect to fortunate 
planets in the election, and if you can let it also apply to 
some good aspect to the lord of the third house in the elec- 
tion, and in good aspect, or in reception, and well posited in 
good places in the election, either of these planetary influen- 
ces will make a good election for producing harmony or 
friendship of brothers, sisters, kindred or neighbors, etc. 

647 The same rules will apply for the election of friend- 
ship of father, mother, friends, wife, husband, sweetheart or 
wife's or husband's brothers or sisters, etc. If the student 
makes use of the fourth house for the father, the tenth house 
for the mother, the eleventh house for friends, the seventh 
house for husband, wife, sweetheart or partners, and the 
ninth house for wife's or husband's brothers or sisters, etc. 

Elections for Hiring Servants, or Employees. 

648 When you hire a servant or an employee, be sure and 
let the Moon be strong and in good aspect to fortunatej)lanets. 
Let it also be in good aspect to Jupiter or Mars, if it is 
a male that you are employing ; if it is a female, then let the 
Moon make a good aspect of Venus and free from all manner 
of affliction, especially of Saturn or Mars, and let the lord of 
the ascendant, or of the second house in the nativity, be in 
good aspect to the lord of the sixth house in the election, or 
let the fortunate planets Jupiter or Venus, be in the sixth 
house of the nativity, or in good aspect to the lord of the 
ascendant, and if possible let the Moon be either in Taurus, 
Gemini or Virgo. 

Some Choice Rules or Aphorisms for Election, Relating 
to Several Undertakings. 

649 In all journeys the greatest affliction of a'planet is to be 
perigrine or out of all Essential Dignities, and retrograde. 



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650 It is bad in journeys to have Saturn or Mars in the 
third or ninth house, but much worse to have them, or either 
of them in the second house. 

651 The lord of the ninth or third house in the first, the 
journey will be successful, and if strong and well dignified 
and well aspected, all the better. 

652 In all journeys look to the Moon, for she is the general 
significatrix of all journies. 

653 The Moon increasing in light and in good aspect to 
the Sun, assist or help in journies. 

654 When a ship sets sail, if Saturn ascends in Pisces, the 
ship is in danger of being cast away, especially if Mars afflicts 
Saturn by an evil aspect. 

655 If you go to a Prince, King, Governor or President, 
let a Fiery sign ascend, and let the Sun be in good aspect 
with Jupiter or Venus. 

656 Those who go to war ought to consider coming home 
safe. To gain this end let the Sun, Jupiter, Venus or 
Dragon's Head be strong and in good aspect in the ascendant 
or else they may fail of it. 

657 If Saturn be in the ascendant he will be overcome with 
fear and will not fight but return home again a coward. If 
Mars is there he will either die in battle or be dangerously 
wounded. If Saturn and Mars are both in the ascendant, you 
may be confident that he will never return. If Saturn or 
Mars or even one of them is in the tenth house, he will be 
taken a prisoner, especially if the lord of the ascendant is in 
the twelfth house, and more especially if it is afflicted in the 
twelfth. 

Elections for Duels and Law-suits. 

658 Judge the challenger; or the one who commences a 
law-suit by the ascendant, and so vary the houses accordingly. 

659 Judge the opponent by the seventh house, and so vary 
the houses as before, the tenth being as fourth house, and 
the fourth as tenth house. 

660 It is not good to fight a duel when the lord of the 
ascendant is in the eighth house, (or house of death,) for 
then there is great danger of death. 

661 The assailant or aggressor, or the one who begins the 
law-suit, always loses the battle, or suit, if the lord of the 
ascendant be retrograde or combust or in conjunction with 
the Sun ; but if the lord of the seventh house be afflicted in 
a similar manner the opponent is beaten. In a duel or battle 
when the Moon, Saturn and Mars are joined together or in 
evil aspect, there will be great effusion of blood. 



2Q4 ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 

662 If any one goes to a Governor or President, let the Moon 
be in the ascendant, in sextile or trine to the Sun, in the tenth 
house in the election. But if one goes to a clergyman, 
bishop or judge, let the Moon be in good aspect or conjunc- 
tion with Jupiter, even a square is not so bad, if there is a 
reception by dignity, between the Moon and Jupiter. 

663 If any om .^oes to see an old man let the Moon apply 
to the sextile or triae aspect of Saturn, from good places 
or houses in the election ; angles are of the most influence, 
especially the ascendant or midheaven. 

664 In managing business or attending to any of the affairs 
of women, let the Moon apply by sextile, trine or conjunction 
to Venus, and do not let Venus be afflicted, if possible. 

665 In dealing with book-keepers, printers, publishers or 
lawyers, let the Moon apply by good aspect to Mercury. 

666 If you have dealings with an officer or a soldier, or a 
machinist, or surgeon, let the Moon apply to a good aspect 
of Mars ; but if you intend to have a surgical operation per- 
formed, do not let the Moon apply to any aspect of Mars, 
even if it is a good aspect, as there will be great danger of 
fever or inflamation setting in after the operation. 

667 If you make an application to a person who deals in 
old furniture or old books, or anything connected with the 
occult, let the Moon apply to a good aspect of Uranus. 

668 In addition to the above rules, if possible, attend to the 
business in the right planetary hour, or in the hours of the 
planets ruling the business or "the kind of persons above men- 
tioned, or ruling the persons you make application to. * 

* The above rules of elections are the most concise and perfect I have ever met with, 
having been culled from some of the oldest authorities that have written on the subject. In my own 
practice I have found them reliable, and have put them to the test thousands of times, and 
especially connected with marriages and business undertakings, where I have been able to observe 
the time of the event and afterwards notice the result. 

On account of the time of marriages being published in the newspapers. I have been able to 
apply those rules in many thousands of instances, and have observed their effects afterwards. 

The next chart of the Heavens that I shall give, is the time of marriage of Mr. Edward and 
Mrs. Lillie Langtry. The time of marriage was given to the reporters by both parties. By ob- 
serving the chart the student will see that it was certainly a very unfavorable time judging, by the 
rules of Astrologv, for any person to get married ; even the time of that marriage wasnot as fortu- 
nate as that of Nellie Grant, Gen. Grant's daughter, who was married in Washington. D. C. 

Mr. Stanley, the African explorer got married under very unfortunate aspects. And he got 
out of a sick bed to get married. None of these parties have lived happy married lives. Of 
course each must have had very unfortunate aspects in their horoscope for marriage, and especially 
Mr. and Mrs. Langtry. The rules and principles of Astrology, when they are violated, are just as 
absolute in their afflietion of pain or punishment, as are any other laws of nature. If these laws 
are violated, the parties must expect to suffer the penalty. 

A short time ago, a lady friend of ours was going to be married, and the time was set on a 
certain evening; mv daughter looked in the ephemeris and saw that the aspect was unfavorable 
for marriage on that evening, and advised them to change the time. The lady and gentleman went 
to the minister to appoint another time to be married. The minister pressed them to inform 
him why they wanted the time changed ; after they had told him, they said they thought the mini- 
ster would never get through laughing. Had the minister gone to any person to talk on religion 
and had he mentioned the name of Jesus Christ to them, and those parties had commenced 
laughing, and continued to do so for half an hour or more, it is natural to suppose he would hive 
come to the conclusion that the party had gone insane, or that God would strike them dead for 
such levity. 



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From the il Neiv York Recorder" June 20th , 1896. 

HOROSCOPE OF EX-GOVERNOR WM. McKINLEY. 

Hon. William McKinley was nominated for the Presidency on the 
evening of June 18th, 1896, and on Jane 20th the following article 
appeared in the " New York Recorder/' "The Pittsburg Dispatch," 
and "The Peoria Journal." 

"This gentleman, according to his biography, was born Jan. 29th, 
1843, in Trumbull Co., Ohio, and according to his description, which 
was given of him in the various newspapers, there is no doubt he first 
saw the light about 2 a. m. on that day. 

"If so he was born under the planet Mars, in the sign Scorpio, rising, 

in close sextile to Saturn, with Scorpio on the ascendant, and also 

Venus rising in the second house. If the above time of birth is correct 

1 he had all the planets under the earth, except Mars, when he was born. 

" The above horoscope would describe a person near the medium 

height, with dark hair, slightly full face, high, round forehead, slightly 

1 sanguine complexion, and of a rather straight or proud walk. In some 

j respects he has a fortunate horoscope, but has had much to contend 

with. He has not a strong constitution and there is great danger that 



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he will not live to be old. * * * He is certainly a person a 
long way above the average in intellect, and ought to make a very sharp 
lawyer. He is fortunate in marriage, but unfortunate in children. 

' Tht time when he was nominated was certainly very favorable, the 
most fortunate for the nomination of a candidate for over 30 years, 
and I have examined all the maps of the heavens for the times of 
presidential nominations for more than that period. At the time he 
received the majority of the votes, 5.17 p. m., June 18th, 1896, St. 
Louis time, the Moon was in the midheaven, and just making a good 
aspect of Jupiter, (Jupiter is lord of the ascendant.) Mercury, Nep- 
tune, Venus and the Sun were all setting, and Saturn and Uranus 
rising. It is a much more fortunate time than when Grover Cleveland 
was nominated, June 23d, 1892, at 0.03 a. m., at Chicago. Also a 
more fortunate time than when Benj. Harrison was nominated in 1888. 




Chart of the Heavens for the Time of Birth of Hon. William McKinley 
Jan. 29th, 1843, at 2 a. m. 

" It was also a fortunate time when the Republican Convention opened, 
June 1 6th, 1896, at 0.20 P. M. The time it opened is certainly 
more fortunate than it will be at noon July 7th, 1896, when the Demo- 
cratic Convention will open. There is no question in my mind but 4 
that Mr. McKinley will be elected President, although he will have a 
marked evil aspect during the early part of Oct., 1896, but it is more | 
probable he will have poor health, or something may go wrong in the 
campaign which will almost threaten his defeat. That aspect will be 
very similar to the one which occured in Grover Cleveland's horoscope 
in Oct., 1888, which caused his defeat through the British minister at 
Washington advising Englishmen to vote for President Cleveland, as 
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"Mr. McKinley's horoscope indicates danger of assassination nearly 
as much as Gen. Garfield's or Abraham Lincoln's. Should he live 
through the Fall of 1897, there is nothing to threaten his life for some 
years, but he will have a very troublesome period all the time he is 
President. I think there is no question but that he will be elected." 

[President McKinley's mother died after a short illness, about Dec. 10th, 
1897. The evil aspects referred to above, instead of causing the sickness 
or death of the President, resulted in the death of his mother.] 



From the "The Baltimore American" July 26th , 1806. 
WHAT THE STARS TELL. 

" Prof. Broughton, the Astrologer, says the verdict of the planets, 
judged by the rules of Astrology, seems to be that the next president of 
the United States will be the apostle of protection and gold — William 
McKinley, of Ohio. Mr. Broughton in 1888 predicted the defeat of 
Grover Cleveland and his election in 1892, and recently has devoted 
himself to horoscopes of Major McKinley and Mr. Bryan. He con- 
sented to make public the result of his researches. 

" Here is a chart," said he, "giving the positions of the celestial 
bodies on Jan. 29, 1843, the day given as the date of birth of William 
McKinley. After careful study, I have arrived at the conclusion that 
he was born at about two in the morning, when the Zodiacal- sign 
Scorpio was at the Eastern horizon and Mars was just rising. You will 
notice that eight of the nine planets were below the Earth, Mars alone 
appearing above the horizon. This indicates that all Mr. McKinley has 
gained has been dearly bought, and success has come to him only after 
many rebuffs and by dint of dogged perseverance. . Energy is written in 
every line of the portraits published of him, and the position of Mars 
bears the same significance. It is a spur to pride and ambition, forcing 
him ever onward and to greater heights. 

" Intellectually Major McKinley is far above the average. Mercury, 
the ruler of the mind, being in the intellectual sign Aquarius, and in 
benefic sextile aspect to Venus, and the Moon in semi-sextile aspect to 
Venus and Mercury, are all auguries of breadth, depth and height of 
mental capacity. If I knew nothing of either protection or free trade, 
and I knew that a man with these horoscopic influences advocated pro- 
tection, I would be willing to accept his judgment as final. I should say 
that Mr. McKinley was a logical and forceful speaker, writer and thinker. 
His career shows that he has been able to impress his followers with his 
personality, and I am inclined to believe that he will impress the voters 
in November as few men in history have done. The conjoined strength 
of Jupiter and the Sun in his horoscope is a potent force for honor. 
He is an honorable man, if ever man were honorable. There will be a 
vein of secretiveness in him that will give rise to suspicion, and his 
enemies may build many stories upon it. Law was undoubtedly an 
excellent profession for Major McKinley ; but as a teacher and writer 
upon scientific subjects he would have made a successful bid for fame. 
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science, instead of politics, and his path would have been easier as he 
climbed to success. He has achieved all he has had reason to hope for, 
and he will not be disappointed in this final stride towards the pinnacle 
of American ambition, 

" Marriage has had a prominent part in the life of Mr. McKinley. 
Previous to his acceptance of the yoke his heart must have been wrung 
upon more than one Hint-hearted belle, and I fear he carries yet the 
traces of early shocks of love's battery. The goal passed, and once em- 
barked upon the sea of matrimony, his mate would be, as I understand 
she has been, a most acceptable compago?i du voyage. Not many- 
children would come their way, and I fear the close position of the Sun 
to Jupiter (Jupiter indicating his wife) would wreck her health. 

He will not hold money any length of time. Venus in the house of 
wealth is good ; Jupiter, lord of the house of wealth, is another benefit, 
but Saturn in the house of weak' is evil. He will make and lose more 
than one fortune. 

"Life has had much in it for Mr. McKinley. That he has received 
more than the average man is due to his perseverance and talent. He 
must guard his health in October, else he will be ill. Of course, the 
strain of campaign work will be severe ; but, besides that, he will have 
some complaint affecting the kidneys. Mrs. McKinley may be very ill 
at that time also." * 




HON. WILLIAM J. BRYAN'S HOROSCOPE. 

" I have not decided upon the time of day Mr. Bryan was born, and 
have, therefore, only erected a chart for noon of the day given as his 
birthday — March 19th, iS6o. The positions of the planets in this 
chart indicate a man of many very excellent qualities, but not a man or 
the 'caliber of Mr. McKinley. Mercury, ruler of the mind, is in the 



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cardinal sign Aries. Mercury is in square aspect to Jupiter, and in trine 
aspect to Saturn. Both of these aspects give power, but not depth. I 
would define Mr. Bryan's mental qualities as moderately strong,- ingen- 
ious, active and fanciful, though frequently having a sombre cast. He 
will not leave behind him work that will compare with the solid crea- 
tions of mental genius brought into the world by Mr. McKinley. Mr. 
Bryan's clever strokes as an orator must be thoroughly prepared. I 
doubt their spontaneous creation in the heat of rhetorical picture-build- 
ing. Judging by this chart, I believe that Mr. Bryan is aiming too high. 

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Chart of the Heavens for 12 O'clock Noon, on the Day of Birth of 
Hon. William J. Bryan, March 19th i860. Illinois. 

It is true that Jupiter, the great benefic, is in its exaltation ; but that 
and the sextile aspect of Mars and the Moon are not sufficient to raise 
a man to the presidency. That Mr. Bryan has risen so high in political 
life can only be explained by the fact that he must have exercised great 
ingenuity, and his wife must have added not a little to his force. A 
man without much physical strength can raise great weights by the aid 
of ingenious contrivances ; but his results cannot be compared to those 
of ingenuity and strength combined! Mr. Bryan has accomplished great 
results, but I doubt if his results in the coming campaign will be equal 
to one-half his aspirations. 

" Mr. Bryan's married life is too well known tor me to remark upon. 
His wife is described by Mars in Saggitarius. She is taller than he, 
straight and erect in stature, light or auburn hair ; ambitious, proud, but 
withal a most lovable woman with both eyes on the main chance. 

" A comparison of the horoscopes of McKinley and Brvan leads me 
to one conclusion : The country would fare better under Mr. McKinley 
than it would under the man from Nebraska. At the time of the elec- 



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tion in November, Major McKinley will have several good influences 
operating in his horoscope, which will aid him greatly. Mr. Bryan 
will suffer at that time from an opposition of Mars to its own place, and 
an exact square of Saturn to its own place in his horoscope. These influ- 
ences alone would indicate Major McKinley's election, even though the 
horoscopes were reversed and Mr. Bryan's were superior." 

THE TWO CONVENTIONS. 

" I have here," the Professor continued, " charts erected for the exact 
minutes the nominations were made in the conventions. McKinley's 
occured June 18th, at 5.44 P. M., and Bryan's July 10th, at 3.15 P. M. 
The time of any event in a nation's history can be judged in Astrology 
the same as if it was a time of birth of a human being — its duration, its 
influence upon the country, its success or failure, and the collateral parts 
which bear upon those engaged or ruled by it. 

" When Mr. McKinley was nominated, the planets smiled upon the 
Republican convention. The benefic Jupiter was ruler of the ascending 
sign Sagittarius. The Moon, ruler of the common people, was approach- 
ing a good aspect to Jupiter. Several other good influences are discern- 
able, and all point to success. 

" The chart for the nomination of Mr. Bryan is far from good. Mars 
is lord of the ascending sign Scorpio, and is weakly placed below the 
earth in a cadent house, and approaching a square aspect of Jupiter. 
Saturn and Jupiter are in square. The Moon is less than a degree past 
a conjunction of the Sun which is a very evil affliction, and it is approach- 
ing a trine of the retrograde planet Uranus in the ascendant at the time 
of the nomination, which is another very evil affliction. I fail to find 
any saving clauses in this review. Mr. Bryan will not retain his 
following;, and his success cannot be found in this chart." 



Further Remarks on the Horoscopes of President McKinley and 

Hon. William J. Bryan, and their Nominations, 

Written in January, 1898. 

The general reader has no idea of the difficulties and obstacles the 
Astrologer has to overcome in writing or publishing anything in con- 
nection with the science or making predictions, as it is next to impossible 
to get the time of birth of any prominent or leading man or woman. 
For instance when the Hons. Grover Cleveland and James G. Blaine were 
nominated and each desiring to be elected President, a newspaper editor 
of this city made application direct to both gentlemen for their time 
of birth, but they positively denied anv knowledge of the time of day 
they were born, and said they did not know there was any person living 
who could tell ; yet afterwards Mr. James G. Blaine, when he wished 
to consult me through a mutual friend, could then give the exact time 
when he was born, and sent it to me in order that I might erect a proper 
chart of the heavens. 

Within a short time after the nomination of the Hon. William 
McKinley, a lady friend of mine, and also a relation and intimate friend 



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Chart of the Heavens for the Time Hon. William McKinley was 

Nominated for President, at St. Louis, Mo., at 5.44 P. M., 

June 18th, 1896. 




Chart of the Heavens for the Time of the Nomination for the President 
of Hon. William J. Bryan, at Chicago, July 10th, 1896, at 3.15 P. M. 



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of Mr. McKinleyl's private secretary, wrote to the secretary requesting 
him to obtain Mr. McKinley's time of birth. He wrote back refusing 
to give it, and stated that a number of people had made application to 
Mr. McKinley for the same information, but they had all been refused. 

When the time of birth is not known, or it has been refused, the Only 
way we have of rinding the time in order to erect a chart of the heavens, 
is to get a good likeness of the individual, and also ascertain the da es of 
some of the leading events of their life on which to base calculations, 
and find if the positions of the planets correspond with those events, and 
also with their personal appearance. By this means I have erected the 
horoscopes of the Hons. Wm. McKinley and Wm. J. Bryan. 

I procured a picture of Mr. McKinley, and looked carefully at it to 
get some idea of his personal appearance, and then comparing the vari- 
ous positions of the heavenly bodies, for the day of his birth, I found 
that no other time would answer so well for describing him, as when the 
latter part of the sign Scorpio was on the ascendant, and Mars a few 
degrees above the cusp of the degree rising. In that respect he has a 
horoscope similar to that of Napoleon Bonaparte, who had Scorpio on 
the ascendant; but in Napoleon's horoscope, Mars, lord of that sign 
was in Virgo, near the cusp of the l ith house. Napoleon had Jupiter in 
Scorpio on the ascendant in the same position that Mr. McKinley has 
Mars, and it is said that President McKinley has quite a resemblance to 
the " Little Corporal." 

In regard to the time of birth of William J. Bryan, I find no position 
of the planets would so well describe him as near the middle of the sign 
Cancer rising, with Jupiter in the ascei.dant, and the Moon, his ruling 
planet, on the cusp of the 9th house, in Aquarius, in sextile to Mars, 
just set. In looking at his portrait we find that he has a real Jupiter 
forehead, with the hair receding from the temples. He has also a Jupiter 
nose, eyes and mouth. Mr. Bryan is what we term a Jupiter and Moon 
person, whereas Mr. McKinley is what we term a real Mars man. Of 
the two Mr. Bryan has a more fortunate horoscope, if we refer to pure 
luck, and he will •meet with fewer reverses in fortune than President 
McKinley. He has also a mind that spurs him on to great energy and 
perseverance, although he does not have the depth of intellect of Presi- 
dent McKinley ; yet Mr. Bryan will come up again, and is bound to 
make his mark, as he has the Moon in a fixed sign in exact sextile to 
Mars, the most active and business planet there is in the heavens. 

A number of Astrologers were mistaken in predicting that Bryan 
would be elected, as they thought Mr. Bryan had the most fortunate 
horoscope of the two, but at the same time they did not take into 
consideration the time that each was nominated. I predicted and had 
it published in the newspapers within two days after Mr. McKinley's 
nomination, that he was certain to be elected, as from the position of the 
planets I judged his nomination to be more fortunate than any presiden- 
tial nomination that had been made during the last 40 years, or since I 
came to this country, and probably there will not be such a fortunate 
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next hundred years as there was when President McKinley received the 
largest number of votes at the convention in St. Louis. At that time 
Jupiter was on the cusp of the gth house, and lord of the ascendant, and 
the Moon in the midheaven coming to its sextile ; these were remarkably- 
fortunate aspects, and had Saturn not been in the 1 2th house near a 
square of Jupiter, he would almost have had a walk over, but that 
aspect caused his party to work hard and spend a great deal of money to 
secure his election. 

Possibly there will never be another presidential nomination made just 
at the new Moon, as it was when Mr. Bryan was nominated, and if the 
democratic party at Chicago had had any idea of planetary influence, 
they certainly would not have nominated a candidate at that unfortunate 
time, unless they had intended him to be crowned with a crown of 
thorns, and crucified on a cross of silver. 

The old Astrologers have an aphorism which says : " Anything com- 
menced at the New Moon comes to naught." Therefore the democrats 
could not have chosen a more unfortunate time for the nomination, 
according to the rules of Astrology. And these rules are like the "Laws 
of the Medes and Persians which cannot be altered. " 

In addition to the evil influence of the new Moon at the nomination 
of Mr. Bryan, the evil planet Saturn was just rising, a little above the 
ascendant, in almost exact square to Jupiter in the 9th house, and 
Uranus was in conjunction with the " Part of Fortune " in the ascendant, 
which are certainly serious afflictions for any public or private under- 
taking whatever. 

It was the want of money that defeated Mr. Bryan, which is shown 
plainly by the " Part of Fortune " being so seriously afflicted. The Moon 
was leaving a conjunction of the Sun, and applying to the conjunction 
of Venus, and all three planets were in trine to Uranus in the ascendant, 
which indicated that the women would be his friends, and had the ladies 
had a vote it is possible that Mr. Bryan might have defeated his 
opponent, but "The Stars fought in their courses against" Bryan. 

It is often very difficult for the student to acquire the knowledge of 
judging almost instantly of two charts of the heavens, and decide which 
is the strongest and which is the weakest one. Mr. Sibley in his 
" Illustration of the Science of Astrology," and others have recommended 
the forming a scale of numbers to measure the strength or debility of 
planets, aspects, etc.; for instance, a planet in its own sign in the mid- 
heaven, they would mark it in strength number 10 ; and the planet only 
in its exaltation they would mark 6 or 4, the same in regard to weak- 
ness ; but the plan that I have generally adopted has been to weigh those 
different positions of the planets in my mind ; by constant practice and 
experience a person can in time, arrive at a very close judgment in com- 
paring any two charts of the heavens, as to their .strength or weakness. 
For instance, taking the time the Hon. William McKinley was nom- 
inated, the Moon was in the sign Libra in the midheaven, applying to a 
good aspect of Jupiter, lord of the ascendant in a fixed sign, in a fortu- 
nate house, afterwards the Moon came to the nth house, (or house of 



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friends,) and then made good aspects of four planets, that is: Mercury, 
Neptune, Venus and the Sun, all in the 7th house, and the Moon in 
the llth house, indicated that Mr. McKinley would gradually go on 
gaining friends, and a great many of them, or enough to elect him. 

There was one evil aspect, and that was the Moon making an oppo- 
sition of Mars, but that planet was in good aspect to the four planets in 
the 7th house. 

At the time Mr. Bryan was nominated, Mars, lord of the ascendant was 
in a cadent house, the 6th, (a very evil house, ) and was set, and going 
lower and lower, and the Moon could hardly have been more afflicted, 
as it was just the new Moon, and in a very weak house, the 8th, (or 
house of death) and Saturn, retrograde, just rising, right in square to 
Jupiter, lord of the 4th, the only planet that was in any way strong. 
It was a foregone conclusion that McKinley would be elected the 
moment that Bryan was nominated. Those two charts of the heavens 
of the nominations of the two presidential candidates, deserve a great 
deal of study and attention, as they are object lessons to the student, and 
answer as examples for future nominations. 

Some of my readers may say as Mr. McKinley was nominated at 
such a fortunate time, why should not his administration be equally for- 
tunate ? To decide that matter we have to examine the horoscope of 
William McKinley, and compare it with other horoscopes, and I think 
if the student compares the horoscope of Queen Victoria with the horo- 
scope of William McKinley, he will find a wonderful difference, as the 
Queen has Jupiter in a fixed sign in the midheaven, and unafflicted in 
close good aspect to Mars in its own sign, and the Sun and Moon in the 
ascendant, and all the planets rising above the Earth except Uranus. 
We term the horoscope of Queen Victoria, an exceedingly fortunate 
one, the very opposite to such a horoscope as William McKinley or 
President Buchanan. 

I think the time must come when the leading men in this country will 
pay attention to the planetary influences in national affairs as was done 
by leading men in former times in other countries, and that previous to 
putting any man in nomination for such a high office as president of the 
United States, they will have some competent Astrologer calculate his 
horoscope and see whether that individual, if elected, would be a blessing 
to the nation or a curse. Had the Republicans understood anything 
about Astrology, they certainly would not have put in nomination^ and 
elected a person with a horoscope like the Hon. William McKinley, who 
has only one planet above the earth, and that the evil planet Mars, 
neither would the Democrats in 1856, had they any knowledge of 
Astrology, have put in nomination and elected a person with a horo- 
scope like James Buchanan, who had the evil planet Saturn in his 
midheaven, and the Moon in the 7th applying to a square of that unfortu- 
nate planet. Should the science of Astrology become generally, known, 
and if we can judge anything by the signs of the times, and the trend of 
events, that day is not far distant, then it will be in the future, as Mr. 
Ashmond in his translation of " Claudius Ptolemy " states it was in the 



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past, that Astrology "entered into the councils of princes, it guided 
the policy of nations, it ruled the daily actions of individuals, and 
physicians who were not well versed in this science were not deemed 
competent to practice their profession." 



HOROSCOPE OF THE SAILING OF THE GERMAN FLEET 
FOR CHINA. 



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Chart of the Heavens for the Time Prince Henry f Brother of the 

Emperor of Germany, set Sail from Kiel, Germany, 

to China, Dec. 16th, 1897, at 9 a. m. 

In order to calculate the positions of the signs and planets for the 
above Chart of the Heavens, the student should read over " Rule to set 
a Map of the Heavens," on -page 142, then procure a map of Germany 
and look for Kiel Bay, and there he will find Kiel, in a small inlet, 154° 
north latitude, and near io° east longitude, from Greenwich, England ; 
then look in an Ephemeris for 1897, and turn to the month of December, 
and on the 1 6th day he will find the Sidereal Time is 17 hours 
and 40 minutes for 12 o'clock noon of that day; he deducts 3 
hours from that sum, as it is 3 hours before 12 o'clock noon, which 
leaves 14 hours and 40 minutes; and in "Dalton's Table of Houses" 
for latitudes from 22 to 56, he will find on the top line of page 42 that 
14 hours and 42 minutes is the nearest to that sum, and a little to the 
right he will find Scorpio 13 °. He places that sign and 13 on the 
cusp of the 10th house, and then run his finger down the left hand column 
until he comes to 54, and on a line with that figure, and immediately 
under 14 hours and \z minutes he will find the signs and the degrees 



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and minutes for the remainder of the Northern houses ; which he will 
copy into the blank chart. He will then insert the opposite or Southern 
signs, and their degrees and minutes on the opposite houses. 

As Kiel is io° east longitude from Greenwich, England, the student 
will multiply that sum by 4, (the number of minutes in time to one 
degree of longitude,) which makes 40 minutes, which he adds to 1 2 o'clock 
noon, and that makes o hours and 40 minutes in the afternoon ; he then 
sees how far each planet, the Sun and Moon travels in 3 hours and 40 
minutes, and subtracts that sum from the degrees and minutes of each of 
the planets and Sun and Moon as printed in the Ephemeris for December 
16th, 1897, for 12 noon at London, and then insert the remainder of 
the degrees and minutes, and also the planets and Sun and Moon in the 
blank chart, and he will find that they correspond, or very nearly, to the 
above Chart of the Heavens. 

If the student turns to page 291 and paragraph 641 he will find 
" Elections for Navigation or Going on a voyage," and he will see by 
the above Chart of the Heavens that it was a very evil time to set sail 
on an important voyage, as the Moon is in the 8th house, (the house 
of death,) and is just leaving a square of Venus, lady of the 9th house, 
(the house of long journeys,) and making a square of Mars, lord of the 
3d, and also of the 10th house, (house of honor,) and the next aspect it 
makes afterwards is a square of the Sun in the 12th, and lord of the 8th 
house. The planet Mercury is in the ascendant, but just leaving a square 
of Jupiter in the 8th, all marked evil aspects. 

There is no doubt that Prince Henry's expedition will prove very 
disastrous. If the student turns to the horoscope of Emperor. William 
II. of Germany, he will find that the opposite signs of his horoscope are 
rising in the above election, and that Mercury is in exact opposition to 
its place at his birth ; and the Sun, lord of the 8 th house of the election, is 
in the 12th of the election and is in close conjunction to Venus in the 
6th house, in the Emperor's horoscope (or house of sickness,) and is 
just leaving the square of Neptune, and making a square of Mars, both 
in the midheaven of the Emperor's horoscope. It will be strange indeed 
if the voyage does not prove very disastrous to Emperor William 
and his brother and also to the whole German nation, and that 
within a short time they will be like the French Republic who sent their 
navy to seize and possess Tonquin, in China. They were soon very 
glad to get back to France, and when they did get back, they took the 
cholera germs with them, which ravaged Marseilles and Toulon, and 
that epidemic spread over a great part of France, and carried off many 
thousands of its inhabitants. The expedition also came near making 
another revolution in France. 

When the laws and principles of Astrology become better understood, 
no government will attempt to send a fleet on an important mission 
without first consulting the stars. In the East Indies the people pay 
much more attention to this science than they do in the western coun- 
tries, they will not even undertake the most trivial matter without 
first observing the positions and aspects of the heavenly bodies. 



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CHART OF THE HEAVENS FOR THE TIME OF MARRIAGE 
OF MR. AND MRS. LANGTRY, ON THE ISLAND 

OF JERSEY, AT 3 a. m., MARCH 12th, 1874. 

In order to calculate the Chart of the Heavens for that time and 
place, the student should procure a map of France. He will find the 
Island of Jersey near the northern part of that country, 49 north lati- 
tude and 2 west longitude, and if he looks in the Ephemeris for 1874 
on the 12th of March, he will find 23 h. and 20 m, sidereal time ; from 
that sum he will subtract 9, which leaves 14 hours and 20 minutes, as it 
was 9 hours before noon when the marriage occured. In the Table of 
Houses for London, which is only 2 from that latitude, he will find 8° 
of Scorpio on the mid-heaven, 29 of Scorpio on the 11th; and 16 
of Sagittarius on the 12th ; 2 Q and i8 / of Capricorn on the ascendant, 
20 of Aquarius on the 2d, and 8° of Aries on the 3d, which he will 
fill into a blank chart. 



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Map of the Heavens, for March 12th, 1874, at 3 a. m., 
Island of Jersey. 

Then insert the opposite signs and degrees and minutes in their 
proper places. In calculating the longitude of the planets he will see 
what longitude each planet, and the Sun and Moon is in on that day at 
noon in London, and deduct one third of the distance they travel that 
day and one hour over, from the degrees and minutes marked in the 
Ephemeris, and then insert them in their proper places in the chart. 
The above he will find is a correct chart of the heavens for the time of 
their marriage. 



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The time of marriage is given as 3 o'clock in the morning, but no 
doubt it was 15 or 20 minutes later or very near half past 3 when they 
were married, when Saturn was right up in the ascendant, and Uranus 
in the 7th house near an opposition, only 3 from the aspect and no 
doubt they separated when that direction came up 3 years after marriage, 
reckoning a year in time for each degree in longitude. 

If the student turns to page 289, paragraphs 630 and 631, he will rind 
that they could not have chosen a more unfortunate time for marriage. 
The election for marriage referred to in paragraph 630 says : " Let not 
Saturn, Mars or Uranus be in the 7th house for that makes the woman 
very ill tempered ; also Saturn, Mars or Uranus in the ascendant, makes 
the man very cross and ill tempered;" it also says: "Let the 7th 
house and the Moon and also the ascendant be free from affliction in 
such signs as favor marriage." But at the time of this marriage, Capri- 
corn was on the ascendant and the Moon, lady of the 7th house just 




Mrs. Lillian Langtry. 
leaving a square of Jupiter, retrograde, in the eighth and making a square 
of Mercury, retrograde, in the third. The Moon would be on the 
ascendant when the marriage ceremony would commence, if at 3 A.. M. 

It has been impossible to get the time of birth from either Mr. or 
Mrs. Langtry, but if we could get them, there is no doubt both had 
what we call very evil aspects for marriage in their horoscopes. 

Independent of their horoscopes or time of marriage, if we compare 
their physiognomy and temperaments or even their phrenologv by their 
pictures, one could readily perceive that it was impossible for them to be 
happy together, as Mrs. Langtry has a peculiar nervous and very fine 
temperament, and is of a high intellectual order, with refined feelings, 
whereas the face, chin, and lower back part of Mr. Langtry's head, indi- 
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I have referred to this subject, and to the positions of the planets at 
their marriage, to show that Astrology, phrenology, physiology and 
physiognomy, all agree when they are properly understood, and also to 
point out that when a man and woman thus disagree in their married 
life and separate the latter becomes more or less reckless in her conduct. 

I also wish to show how important it is that when a person contem- 
plates marriage, a suitable time should be elected according to planetary 
influence, if lasting happiness is desired ; bat if the parties getting married 
elect an unfortunate time for that event they must expect it to terminate 
in a similar manner to the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Langtry. 

I have always found that when parties have unfortunate horoscopes 
for marriage they invariably get married at unfortunate times, unless they 
employ an Astrologer to calculate a fortunate time for their marriage. 

In a horoscope of the time of marriage the ascendant indicates the 
man and the 7th house the woman. At the time of Mr. and Mrs. 
Langtry's marriage the evil planet Uranus was retrograde in the 7th house, 




. Mr. Edward Langtry. 

the Moon lady of the 7th house was leaving an evil aspect of one retro- 
grade planet and applying to an evil aspect of another retrograde planet, 
all indicating that Mrs. Langtry would leave or separate from her 
husband. She tried several times to get a divorce and finally succeeded 
in California, but her husband and the English courts never recognized it ; 
but death finally put an end to this ill-starred marriage. In the fall of 
1897 Mr. Langtry fell from the gang-plank of a vessel, which accident 
resulted in insanity and death. The evil planet Saturn in the ascend- 
ant in a fixed sign caused Mr. Langtry to be stubborn in opposing her 
divorce and against recognizing it. 

I understand the reason Mr. and Mrs. Langtry were married at such an 
early hour, was that they wished to start on their wedding tour after the 
ceremony, and 3 a. m. just allowed them time to take the train or boat. 



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HOROSCOPE OF VICTORIA, OUEEN OF GREAT BRITAIN 

AND IRELAND, AND EMPRESS OF INDIA. 

Her Majesty was born on the 24th of May 1 8 1 9, at 4. 1 5 a. m. London, 
England, at which time 5 of Gemini were rising, and J° of Aquarius 
culminating. She was born under the former sign and the planet Mer- 
cury in the sign Taurus, in the ]2th house, it having no special aspect 
to any planet ; also the Sun and Moon were within orbs of the ascend- 
ant, the latter just leaving a conjunction of the former and both leaving 
a sextile of Saturn, in the sign Pisces in the 1 1 th house, (the house of 
friends. ) 




The Queen's Nativity, May 24th, i8ig, at 1.15 a. m., London. 

In order to get a personal description of the Queen we have to notice 
Mercury in Taurus, (see par. 129 page 118,) the Sun in Gemini, 
(see par. 106, page 113,) the Moon in Gemini, (see par. 142, page 
120,) and also the sign Gemini, (see par. 15, page 97;) by combin- 
ing the whole the student will get a very close description of the Queen, 
especially if he considers the sextile of the Sun and Moon to Saturn, 
(see par. 216, page 132, and par. 222, page 133 ;) and can arrive at her 
personal description, and also her mental qualities.* That which makes 

* In giving a description of the native, the student should always bear in mind the first rule ; 
Genera ly the planet which is lord of the ascendant, and the sign it is in, are the main factorsfor de- 
scribing the native ; the second rule is, the sign on the ascendant ; the third, planets in the ascendant, 
and in aspect toother planets, and also the lord of the ascendant in aspect to other planets ; and the 
fourth, the Moon's, and a-peci> to other planets. Therefore the above description of Mercury 
in Taurus, comes near describing the Queen. She would have been quite short, only she has a 
tall sign on the ascendant, and the Moon and the Sun are both in tall signs, within orbs of the 
ascendant. If the Sun and Moon had been in the ascendant instead of above it she would have 
been taller and not so stout. 



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this horoscope so remarkably fortunate is Jupiter in the midheaven una- 
fflicted, in a fixed sign and in close sextile to Mars in its own sign in the 
i2th ; and also to the position of the Sun and Moon within orbs of the 
ascendant. 

Persons born with the Sun, Moon, Jupiter and Mars strong and in 
good aspect in their horoscope, invariably overcome their enemies, and 
rise above them, and yet the Queen must have had a number of false 
friends, as she has Saturn in the l lth house, in square to Uranus on the 
cusp of the 8th house, (house of death) which has at different times 
caused her life to be in danger by secret enemies. 

The Sun which is the " Giver of Life " in this horoscope, has caused her 
to live to be an old woman, and should she get past 1898, and especially 
if she lives by the early part of December, 1899, she may then live some 
time longer, but 1898 and 1899 will be remarkably trying years, both 
for her health and constitution, but in a horoscope where the " Hyleg " 
is so strong as it is in the Queen's, it is very difficult to predict 
the exact time of death, but during the two years referred to, her vitality 
will be very seriously tried, also during these two years the English nation 
will have the world against it, and its enemies will multiply, and many 
of its supposed friends will turn into deadly enemies. 

I shall not enter into any lengthy account of the Queen's horoscope. . 
The main reason I have inserted it is to illustrate four principles in 
Astrology. The first is honor and wealth ; the second a long life ; the 
third marriage, and the fourth children. 

The Sun being "Hyleg," strong in the ascendant, unafflicted, and 
leaving a good aspect ot Saturn in the 1 lth, and Jupiter lord of the 8th, 

The above positions of the Sun and Moon made the Queen slender when young, but Mercury 
being in a short stout sign, caused her to become stouter as she grew older. The Sun and Moon 
so close to the ascendant made the Queen lighter complexioned than she would otherwise have 
been, if the description had depended only on Mercury in the sign Taurus. 

The following which is copied from " Modern Astrology," for Oct. 1896, a monthly periodical 
published in London, England, evidently shows that the author of the article has not had much 
experience as an Astrologer ; if he had, he certainly would not have made such a mistake. The 
writer says that: 

" If her Majesty is a Gemini lady with both luminaries on the ascendant in that sign, she 
would to a certainty be a tall dark lady, there being nothing of any consequences to counteract this. 
If the ideas put forward in The ' Revised Ho?-oscope ' are correct, the Queen is a Taurus lady ; she 
answers well to Mercury in Taurus, both in person and mind as well as disposition ; if the birth 
took place at 4.15 a. m., on the 24th of May 1819, the meridian was in 2 degrees and 25 minutes; 
and by equal division of the sphere, the ascendant would be Taurus 2 degrees and 25 minntes, 
which will be found to accord.with what is known of the lady, better than the horoscope published." 

" Jariel," the Australian Astrologer. 

" Jariel " ought to bear in mind that the " equal division of the sphere " or putting the same 
number of degrees of the signs on each of the 12 houses was discussed and settled over 2,000 years 
ago. and all nativities are now calculated for the longitude and latitude of the place of birth, by all 
good Astrologers. 



Once while giving a lecture on Astrology, at 814 Broadway, in 1867, the time of birth of a lady 
born the 24th of May, 18:9. at 4.15 a. m., London, was handed in, and I drew the chart on the 
blackboard, reading it off without any trouble or difficulty, and it appears I gave a very good des- 
cription of the lady, her marriage, time of marriage, and description of her husband, and time of 
his death, all appear to correspond exactly. Among other things I stated she would be very 
wealthy, and ride in her own carriage, and live to a good old age. When I got through I expected 
the lady to get up and state if what I had said was correct. Instead Prof. Wilson told us it was 
the horoscope of Queen Victoria I had been reading; I was very much surprised at the accuracy 
of my reading. Prof. Wilson knew the exact time of birth as she and her guardian consulted him 
when he was a watchmaker in London. Victoria had not come to the throne at that time, as 
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strong in the midheaven, and in close sextile to Mars, strong in its own 
sign, ami lord of the 6th, (house of sickness,) indicate that she would 
live to a great age, and that even although her life has been attempted 
several times, the " Hyleg " so strong, and Jupiter so strong in the 
midheaven in close good aspect to Mars, has so changed the bullet's 
course aimed at her life, that they had no effect on her, and she has 
never as much as received a wound, only when she fell and hurt her knee. 

The Queen's horoscope is exceedingly fortunate for marriage, as 
Jupiter is lord of the 7th house, in the midheaven, and the Sun first 
applies to a trine of that planet, and if the student turns to par. 90 
page 110, and also par. 21 page 98, he will find that they would 
exactly describe Prince Albert, her late husband, and also that she 
would live very happily, and be exceedingly fond of her husband. 

Had the Qeen married a second time the marriage would not have 
been so fortunate, as the second husband would be described by the 
planet Mars in the sign Aries, in the 12th, an evil house, although that 
planet being in good aspect to Jupiter, would improve his temper and 
disposition slightly, but still it would have been an unfortunate marriage, 
and the Queen would have found a remarkable difference between a 
Jupiter man and a Mars man for a husband. 

On account of the Queen's horoscope being so fortunate for marriage, 
she appears to have had but little patience or sympathy with women 
who have what we term unfortunate horoscopes for marriage, and she 
thinks that when a woman does not live happily with her husband, it is 
entirely the woman's fault. It is reported that she will not receive a 
divorced woman at court or in any way recognize her. 

If the Queen had as unfortunate a horoscope for marriage as she has 
for children, she would have much more sympathy with ladies who are 
so unfortunate as not to be able to live with their husbands. These 
women might reply to the Queen by telling her it is her own fault she 
has had so much trouble with her children. 

The Queen having the Moon in the ascendant, and it a fruitful planet, 
particularly as both the Sun and Moon were leaving a good aspect of 
Saturn in the llth, in a fruitful sign, caused her to have a large family,* 
but Saturn being in opposition to her 5th house (or house of children,) 
caused her to have much unhappiness in relation to children. It was 
reported in the papers that on account of one of the elder sons being 
turned out of school for bad conduct, Prince Albert, her husband, then in 
poor health, took a journey to Wales to try and arrange matters, when 
he caught more cold and brought on gastritis, which resulted in his death. 

The Prince Consort died Dec. 14th, 1861,* when the Queen had the 
Sun right over Uranus's place on the cusp of the 8th house, in exact 

Prince Albert, husband ot Queen Victoria, was born Aug. 26th, 1819, at 6.4 a. m., Saxcoburg- 
Gotha, Germany. 

According to the above time given, he was born under the planet Mercury in the sign Virgo 
in the ascendant, with 11 degrees of that sign rising, and 6 degrees of Gemini culminating Mars 
was 23 degrees in Gemini in the midheaven, almost in exact square to Mercury in the ascendant, 
and in close opposition to Uranus in the 4th house, and applying to a square of Saturn in the 7th 
house. 

He had a very conflicting horoscope but it indicated a very talented man, and he was very 
fine looking, so much so that many Astrologers, before they knew the exact time of birth, calcu 



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square to Saturn in the 5th, and Jupiter was also in opposition to Saturn's 
place. The Queen having her planet in the 12th house (the house of 
sorrow,) caused her to mourn for a number of years after his death, 
and would not receive company. 

He died rather suddenly. The Queen did not marry under good 
aspects in her horoscope, as on the day of marriage, Feb. 10th, 1840, 




Prince Consort. 

the Moon was in Taurus in her 12th house, in square to Jupiter in her 
midheaven; also making an opposition of Jupiter in Scorpio, and a 
square of the Sun on that day, which evil aspects had much to do with 
shortening the life of Prince Albert. Besides, the Prince did not have a 
long lived horoscope, neither was it a very fortunate one for marriage, 
although the Queen lived very happily with him. 

lared his horoscope and supposed him to have been born under Jupiter in Aquarius, but after his 
death a paper was discovered which gave the exact time of birth as stated above. 

The Prince had Saturn in the 7th house (the house of marriage,) and applying by retrograde 
motion to a square of Mars in the midheaven would indicate that his marriage was not a very 
happy one to him. The Moon made a square of Jupitor in Aquarius, and Jupiter was lord of the 
7th, (or house of marriage,) which would come very near describing a lady like the Queen. 

He could not have enjoyed the best of health during many parts of his life, as the ascendant 
was the giver of life and Mercury so afflicted in the ascendant by a square of Uranus and Mars, 
and an opposition of Saturn caused his life to be short. He died Dec. 14th, 1861, when the Sun 
was in exact square to Mercury, and Saturn was just transiting over his Mercury's place in the 
ascendant, and Jupiter was in the sign Virgo, making an opposition of Saturn's place. 

It is a remarkable coincidence that he should die of stomach and liver trouble or gastritis just 
at that time, and all these planets afflicting his ruling planet in the sign Virgo, which governs the 
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The above picture gives a typical idea of the features of a person 
described by Jupiter in Aquarius, and any one who was an artist and 
understood Astrology might soon after the birth of the Queen have 
painted almost an exact likeness of the person she would marry, as he 
would be described by 2£ in £? and the sign $ , and also could have 
come very close to the time of marriage, as all the planets except one 
were rising, which would indicate an early marriage. 

The following picture of the Queen, taken soon after her coronation, 
gives a very good likeness of her in her early years, and shows her 
description as indicated by the Sun and Moon in Gemini, and had 
the Sun and Moon been lower down in the ascendant, or below the cusp 
she would have been much taller, slimmer and even lighter complexioned 
than she is. The second picture (on the opposite page) gives her as 



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Queen Victoria as she appeared at 20 years of age. 

described by the planet Mercury in Taurus, a stout sign, (see par. 578, 
page 225,) and which shows how she would gradually become an ideal 
person of the planet Mercury in Taurus in a fixed sign as she grew older. 

As I have already mentioned, the Queen has some remarkably evil 
influences during the next two years, and she would begin to feel 
them in a more marked manner than she has had it not been for Jupiter 
coming in good aspect to both the Sun and Moon and her ascendant, 
which occured in the early part of November, and it will remain in 
close good aspect to her Sun and Moon and ascendant, until the latter 
part of August, l 898. It will also form a good aspect of its own place 
in October, 1898. 

If it had not been for the good influence of Jupiter, the Queen and 
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ment of 1898, as she has both Saturn and Uranus in her 7th house, in 
opposition to both the Sun and Moon, and they will continue to afflict 
her during 1898, but the most evil planetary influence is the slow-going 
planet Neptune which will continue in close opposition to Uranus's 
place in the 8th house, nearly all of 1898, and the whole of 1899. 

The English nation and the Queen will feel the evil influence of 
Saturn and Uranus in an angle or the seventh house, or Queen's house 
of enemies, which evil influence will continue for nearly two years. 
Probably there will be some attempt on her life or she may die very 
suddenly during these evil aspects. 




Queen Victoria as she appears in her 7gth year. 

It will be next to impossible for the English government to keep out of 
trouble, and no doubt some of the colonies will rise in rebellion, especially 
India, and it will be strange indeed, if the nation can avoid being em- 
broiled in war during the next two years. 

The Queen also has an unfortunate revolutionary figure for her next 
birthday, May 24th, 1898, as Jupiter will be in the 4th house, oppo- 
site to its position at birth. She will have four planets in the 12th 
house, (the house of secret enemies,) and Mars an evil planet is almost 
in the same degree of the sign Aries in the 11th house (the house of 
friends,) that it was in the ] 2th house at birth. The Sun is in the 12th 



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and in almost exact opposition to Uranus. She has also two evil planets 
in the 6th house (or house of sickness,) all indicating that her health 
will be poor, if she is not dangerously ill during the coming year. 
Mercury her ruling planet, is almost in the exact position in Taurus 
that it was at birth, but in the l ith house, instead of being in the 12th 
as it was when she was born. These aspects and positions of the 
planets will cause the Queen to have more secret enemies than she has 
known for a very long time. Her secondary directions are also evil 
during the coming year. The Moon is making a square of Venus and 
the Sun is almost in exact opposition to Jupiter's radical place. 




Queen Victoria's Revolution » from May 24th, 1898, to May 24th, 1899. 
Occurs May 23d, 1898 at 6.43 a. m. 

If the student inspects the two charts of the heavens, the Revolution 
figure and the Secondary Directions, he will see that they are not as 
fortunate as her own nativity was at birth. 

The Queen's Revolution, Secondary Directions and Transits from 
May 24.TH 1898, to May 24TH, 1899. 

The Revolutionary figure is a chart of the heavens erected for the 
exact time that the Sun arrives at the degree and minute that it was in at 
birth ; when that exact moment is ascertained in any particular year, 
then the student inserts the signs and their degrees and the longitudes of 
the planets for that time the same as if it was a nativity. 

The figure of a Revolution when erected as above described is the 
horoscope for the year which it is calculated for, and the good or evil 
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that year. The position and aspects of the planets in the Revolution 
have also to be noticed in regard to their radical places in the nativity, 
and in that respect are said to have much influence on the native, and 
his circumstances for the ensuing year. 

The Secondary Directions are calculated by first inserting the signs of 
the Zodiac and their degrees in a blank chart, the same as they were at 
birth, then count the number of days from the birthday, that the native 
is years old, and calculate the longitude of the Sun, Moon and planets 
for that day, to the same hour and minute of the day, that the native 
was born ; that gives the Secondary Directions for that year. 




Queen Victoria's Secondary Directions, from May 24th, 1898, to May 

24th, 1899. 

The number of degrees the Moon is from forming an aspect of a 
planet, either in the horoscope of Secondary Directions or the Revolution, 
indicates the number of months after the birthday that the influence of 
the aspect will be felt, especially if the Moon is travelling at the rate of 
12 a day, which corresponds to 12 months of the year. If the Moon 
is travelling faster, then count a little more than a degree for a month. 

This remark applies to the Secondary Directions both in the Second- 
ary Direction figure and to the aspects of the planets to their radical 
places in the nativity, counting a month for a degree that the Moon is 
from forming any aspect, which indicates the number of months from 
the birthday that the influence of the aspect will be felt in that year. 

When a Revolution does not harmonize with the nativity it is said to 
be an unfortunate Revolution for that year ; thus, if the sign on the 
ascendant in the Revolution is in square or opposition to the sign that is 
on the ascendant at birth, it makes it a very unfortunate Revolution, or 



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vice versa. If the sign on the ascendant is in sextile or trine to the 
ascendant at birth, and the aspects agree in both the Revolution and 
nativity, then it is called a good Revolution, etc. 

On the whole, the Secondary Directions and the Revolutionary figures 
are unfavorable for the Queen from May 24, 1898, to May 24, 1899. 

The aspects of the planets in their revolution around the Sun which 
occur in a chart, as in the Queen's nativity, of Saturn and Uranus going 
through her 7th house, in opposition to the Sun and Moon in the ascend- 
ant in 1898 are called "Transits," and the Queen's horoscope has re- 
markably evil transits during the next two years. They will not only 
affect her own health and condition, or surroundings, but all those who 
are subject to or under her. That influence will continue until those 
evil transits are passed unless she dies in the meantime. In that case for 
the inflnence on the subjects we have to notice or look to the aspects in 
the horoscope of the Prince of Wales, or the horoscope of the heir to 
the throne, in a similar manner to the Queen's. 

For practice the student can compare the two charts of the heavens 
of the Revolution and Secondary Directions, with the Queen's horo- 
scope, and notice in which month the fortunate or unfortunate aspects 
will occur, reckoning from the Queen's birthday. He might also pro- 
cure Raphael's Ephemeris for 1898, and notice in which month the evil 
transit of Saturn and Uranus will have the most effect, and the time the 
good aspect of Jupiter will have a modifying influence. 

There is in addition to the Revolutionary figures, the Secondary Direc- 
tions, and the transits, also what are termed " Primary Directions," that 
is, the aspects of the planets and the Sun and Moon, which occur after of 
before birth ; the former are termed "Direct Directions," the latter, 
" Converse Directions. " For every degree that the planet or Sun and 
Moon has to travel to complete the aspect is reckoned a year of the 
native's life. If the student examines the Queen's horoscope he will 
find that Uranus is 23 degrees and 20 minutes, in Sagittarius, and Saturn 
28 degeees and 48 minutes in Pisces. Uranus is a little over 5 from a 
square of Saturn. At 5 1-4 years of age the Queen would feel that evil 
aspect, and no doubt she was very ill, or there was some serious misfor- 
tune in her family at that age ; possibly she might have buried a near 
relation or some other affliction came to her. 

These Primary Directions can easily be calculated during the early 
years of the native's life ; but when the native gets older, in order 
to calculate those directions exactly, we have to draw what we term a 
" speculum," as these directions, reckoning a degree for a year, do not 
always correspond with a year of the native's life. When the native 
arrives at the age of 50 or 60, these discrepancies may in some nativ- 
ities be considerable. 

The Queen will have an evil direction to the Moon during the year 
1898, which will very seriously affect her health or cause some other 
affliction, and as the Moon and Sun are both in Gemini, in the 
ascendant it will in all probability bring on some serious attack in some 
way connected with the chest or head near the time when the aspect is 
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HOROSCOPE OF LILLIAN RUSSELL. 

This lady was born Dec. 4th, i860, at 11.40 p. m., Chicago, 111. 
This well-known songstress was born under the planet Mercury, in 
the sign Scorpio, which it is near leaving and entering Sagittarius, there- 
fore she is described by Mercury in Sagittarius rather than Mercury in 
Scorpio, as that planet is more than 28 in the sign, and Mercury is also 
in square to Jupiter, rising. This describes a handsome person as her 
pictures indicate. She has 1 2 of Virgo rising, and io° of Gemini cul- 
minating ; Saturn is just rising in close opposition to the planet Mars, 
setting, and both in square to Uranus, retrograde, in the midheaven and 
applying to a square of the Sun in the 4th house. 




Chart for Dec. 4th, i860, at 11.40 p. m., Chicago, 

The Moon has just risen in exact sextile to Venus, and applying to 
an opposition of Mars and conjunction of Saturn, also to a square of 
Uranus, and the Sun. It is very seldom that we see a horoscope that has 
so many evil and conflicting aspects as this, especially for marriage or 
partnership. 

In order to describe this lady, both physically and mentally, the 
student will have to turn to par. 18, page 97, par. 136, page 119, to 
par. 275, page 139, par. 145, page 120, par. 245 and 246, page 135. 

The student may also read Saturn in Virgo, Mars in Pisces, Uranus 
in Gemini, and the Sun in Sagittarius, as they are all in aspect to each 
other and the ascendant, also read their square and opposition aspects.* 



* Mercury in Sagittarius gives brown hair, and I understand that was the original color of the 
lady's hair. 



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These numerous squares, oppositions and particularly the sextile of 
the Moon to Venus, and the Moon rising, has caused this lady to have 
such remarkable abilities, and to become so well-known, in connection 
with her musical talents, but still she will not leave a name behind her 
equal to Jenny Lind, who had Venus in the sign Libra in the ascendant, 
in her nativity, or of Adelina Patti, who has Venus in Scorpio in the 
ascendant in her horoscope. 

The only other horoscope that I can bring to mind that had so many 
squares and oppositions was that of Stephen A.Douglass, who was a very 
talented man, but who met with much opposition through life, and I 
believe eventually died poor. He ran for President in opposition to 
Abraham Lincoln, but was defeated. There is much danger that this 
lady will meet with many oppositions and conflicting difficulties in 
different periods of her life, and it is very doubtful of her leaving much 
wealth at her death. 





Mr. Harry Braham, 
First Husband. 



Mr. Solomon, Second Husband. 

The ascendant, being the giver of life and so afflicted, it is very 
doubtful of her living to a great age, although it is possible that she might 
enjoy fair health generally, yet on account of Saturn afflicting Virgo rising, 
she will at times have severe attacks of illness, chiefly afflicting the abdomen 
and upper parts of the chest and throat, and will at times be troubled 
with some slight heart difficulty, as Uranus is in Gemini, in square to 
the ascendant, and Jupiter is in Leo, afflicting Mercury, her ruling 
planet, and very probably will die after a very short illness. 



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The main reason I have inserted this horoscope, is to refer to the 
marked evil aspects for marriage. In a nativity where there are evil 
planets in the 7th house, the house of marriage, it is always unfavorable 
for happiness in married life, and having the planet Neptune in that house 
is particularly evil, but more especially when Mars is there also in close 
opposition of Saturn rising. Had the Sun first made the square of 
Saturn or Mars it would have been much worse for her marriages than 
it really has been, but the Sun so close to a square of these evil planets 
has made it bad enough. 




Lillian Russell. Mr. G. Perugini, Third Husband. 

In a lady's horoscope she marries the person denoted by the planet 
that the Sun first applies to by aspect for her first husband. See par. 
298 and 299, page 164, also par. 305, page 165. The first aspect the 
Sun makes in this horoscope is a trine to Jupiter in Leo in the 12th 
house, (an evil house,) and Jupiter is within z° of a square of her ruling 
planet, Mercury. (See picture of first husband.) 

The above picture is almost a typical Jupiter in Leo person,* but 
these two ruling planets being in square to each other, and Mercury 
retrograde, caused her to leave him. The second aspect the Sun makes is 



* If the student compares the above picture with Hon. William J. Bryan's, he will see a 
resemblance, as they are both Jupiter men. 



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a sextile of Venus, and Mr. Solomon was a real Venus person ; Venus 
being so close to a sextile of the Moon caused her to have considerable 
affection for him, and the picture of the second husband is almost a 
typical person described by Venus in Scorpio, both in personal appear- 
ance and stature, Jand it also indicates great reputation for musical talent. 
For his description the student should turn to par. 123, page 116, and 
pars. 245, 246, page 135. No doubt there was more harmony between 
this lady and Mr. Solomon than with her other husbands, but his bad 
reputation for women finally undermined their happiness. 

The third aspect the Sun makes is a sextile of Mars, just setting, near 
the cusp of the 7th house, and afflicting the house of marriage. The 




Lillian Russell. 

picture of the third husband indicates a real Mars person. For his 
personal description the student should turn to par. 103, page 113, par. 
259, page 138, and par. 235, page 134. The union with this gentle- 
man was of very short duration as the planet Mars is in the "th house 
and so close to an opposition of Saturn within orbs of the ascendant. 

The fourth picture shows a person indicated by the planet Uranus in 
the sign Gemini ; for his description turn to par. 58, page 10^ ; but she will 
riot marry him. (See par. 302, page 165.) Should she marry again, the 
next husband is indicated by the planet Saturn in the sign Virgo, and his 
personal description would not be anything like the last picture referred 
to ; for his personal description, the student should turn to par. 73, 
page 107, and to par. 258, page 137, also par. 217, page 133. He will 



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have a peculiar sullen or down look, and not be agreeable in his manners. 
It is more than probable that this lady will marry a fourth time, and 
will also separate from that husband, possibly within a year after the 
marriage. This horoscope is not fortunate for children and certainly she 
will have only a small family, and these will not be of much comfort 
or benefit to her, as Saturn lord of the 5th house, (the house of children,) 
is afflicting the ascendant, but the Moon making a conjunction of Saturn, 
and at the same time being in sextile to Venus, indicates that she would 
be very fond of her children, and they would be good-looking. 

In early life this lady would be very willful and head-strong, but on 
the whole good-natured and kind-hearted, except when out of temper; 
she must have had a number of very severe attacks of illness which seri- 
ously threatened her life. One was during her first year, and another 
at 3 years of age. She had a marked evil time at 6 1-2 years, also at 7 
years, 14 years and 21 years. Probably she married the first time when 
near 18 years of age. Commencing September 1890, and continuing up 
to the fore part of 1896, she had a number of very evil planetary influ- 
ences which have caused her serious trouble and unhappiness. 

The present year, 1898, will not be a fortunate year, especially May, 
June, July, August, September and November. The year 1899 will 
also be unfortunate for her as she will have Uranus afflicting her Moon's 
place, also Saturn's and Mars' places and in opposition to its own place 
and a conjunction of the Sun's place in her horoscope. All these are 
very evil aspects and will afflict her financially and in her health. Uranus 
will afflict her in a similar manner all through 1899. 

If Queen Victoria had a horoscope similar to that of Lillian Russell, 
she would have much more sympathy and feeling for women who are 
unfortunate in marriage or compelled to be divorced from their husbands. 

I have inserted the foregoing pictures and horoscope of this talented 
lady, to show that when a female has a nativity which is unfortunate for 
marriage, no matter how attractive she may be in personal appearance, 
figure or complexion, and no matter how talented a musician she may 
be, conversationalist or entertainer, yet when it is so evil for marriage, 
it is an impossibility for that person to retain or live happily with their 
life's partner. Yet when the horoscope is fortunate for marriage, they 
live happily even if the lady is old and anything but good-looking. 

The same principles apply to those horoscopes of parties who are 
unfortunate in burying their companions after marriage, whether men or 
women. In such horoscopes as show the affliction of the life's partner, 
especially if afflicted in the 6th, 8th or 2d house, no matter how 
indulgent or careful they are of their partners, those partners are only 
of short life. 

I wish the student to bear in mind that I do not blame Lillian 
Russell for not living happily with her husbands, because her horoscope 
shows distinctly that it would be more her husband's fault than her's 
that she did not continue to live happily with them, and that she is also 
of an affectionate nature, and ought to live happily with almost any man, 
if it was not for the evil aspects for marriage in her horoscope. 



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From Broughton's Monthly Planet Reader, for Dec. 1869. 
THE HOROSCOPE OF LORD GEORGE GORDON BYRON 

" There is a name that will survive 
Royalty's monumental stone, 
And long as history can give 
Deserv'd renown, must deathless live; 
Byron, it is thine own." — Mirror. 

" Beautiful stars, in other days, 
The prophet's eyes might read your rays, 
And tell of many a strange event, 
Of warfare and of warning sent." — Byron. 




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Lord Byron's Nativity, January 22d, 1788, at 1.18 a. m., London. 

"Little did Lord Byron think when writing these beautiful lines that 
years after his death and burial the skill of the 'prophet's eye,' in 'reading 
the rays of the Stars,'' should be the only authentic record left to justify 
his fair name and character j to remove the most ignominious charge of 
incest, and fix the fabrication of it on the right person, that is Lady Byron. 

" The time of birth of this truly noble and most illustrious poet was 
obtained some years ago, from an authentic source, so that there can be no 
doubt of its correctness. From what source I received it is of no account 
to the reader, only I can assure him that I did not receive it from either 
Harriet Beecher Stowe or Lady Byron. And its perfect agreement with the 
principally known events of his life exhibits a most remarkable proof of 
Astrology, by far too strong for the enemies of the science to invalidate. 

" Lord Byron was born when 6 degrees of Scorpio were rising, which 
caused him to be born under the planet Mars, in Cancer, near a conjunction 
of the Moon, and applying to an opposition of Mercury, which will describe 
a person near the middle height, well built, light hair and light complexioned, 
high forehead and oval face. 

"The Moon is the giver of life, and being in conjunction with an evil 
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indicated a short life, and also the kind of death. But I shall refer to this 
part of the horoscope afterwards. 

" The extraordinary mental qualifications which Lord Byron possessed 
are most amply demonstrated by the positions and configurations of the 
Moon and Mercury. The latter planet is the principal ruler of the intel- 
lectual faculties, and being free from the affliction of the Solar ravs, in the 
moveable and tropical sign Capricorn, oriental, and approaching a sextile 
of the ascendant, by which means he may be said to be in a glorious posi- 
tion, contributes, according to the Quadripartile of Ptolemy, to render the 
mind ' clever, sensible, capable of great learning, inventive, expert, logical, 
studious of nature, speculative, of good genius, emulous, benevolent, skillful 
in argument, accurate in conjecture, and adapted to science and mystery.'* 




Lord George Gordon Byron. 

The page also adds, 'tractable; 1 but Mercury being in opposition to the 
Moon and Mars, instead of tractibility, gives hatred of control j inspires the 
native with the most lofty ideas and aspiring sentiments ; gives him origi- 
nality and eccentricity, with a firmness of mind almost inclining to obstinacy, 
and which made this illustrious native such an enemy to the track of custom, 
for which he was so remarkable, and which contributed to form that lofty 
genius which alike rode in the whirlwind, or sparkled in the sunbeam. 



* See Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos, page 167, translated from the Greek by J. M. Ashmond, (Edition 
of 1822.) A work which lias stood the test of criticisms of its opponents, for nearly two thousand 
years, and it is likely to be a text book on Astrology for two thousand years to comQ, 



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" The disposition and rational faculties are no less plainly described by 
the position of the Moon in conjunction with Mars 5 likewise, in a tropical 
and cardinal sign, wherein she is powerful while Mars is nearly in exact 
mundane trine to the ascendant. These positions laid the foundation, from 
the moment of his existence, of that peculiarity of disposition, that keen 
and cutting vein of satire, that caustic and pointed wit, that extraordinary 
development of energies, passions and eccentricities, that quick, enterprising 
and daring mind, and that exquisite taste, talent and sensibility for which 
he stood unrivalled. But, at the same time that this position of the heavenly 
bodies gave sentiments of the most perfect heroism and invincible courage, 
it is to be regretted that it inclined the temper to be both hasty and irascible 
on the slightest occasion, and to increase the violence of the most powerful 
passions ! 

" Mercury, it will be observed, is alone in the sign of the winter tropic, 
and in semi-quartile to Saturn, which may account for the solitary gloom 
that so frequently overshadowed his path through life, as well as for that 
melancholy sadness which tinged some of his brightest ideas, and which 
actually seems to have embittered the latest hours of his existence. 

"Thus it will be observed, from a combined view of the above testimo- 
nies, judged according to the established and experimental rules of the astral 
science, that the nativity plainly demonstrates the illustrious subject thereof 
to have been endowed with the most extraordinary and stupendous intellect, 
with a genius and imagination, as far surpassing the common run of poets, 
as the refulgent rays of the meridian Sun surpass the feeble twinkling of the 
smallest star that arises in our horizoii ! Neither is it a trifling proof of 
Astrology, that his geniture so plainly demonstrate that he was " born a 
poet." 

Marriage. 

"The Moon first applies to an opposition [the very worst aspect that 
there is,] of Mercury, in the sign Capricorn; (See par. 306, page 165, par. 
137, page 119, par, 290, page 141, par. 283, page 140, and par. 300, page 
164.) Therefore, his wife is denoted by the planet Mercury in Capricorn, 
which will describe a person below the middle height 5 when young, slender 
built, dark hair, oval or thin face, and pale skin. Of a quick temper, and 
at times, ill-natured, peevish, suspicious and jealous. 

" Mercury is in opposition to Mars, [Lord Byron's ruling planet,] and 
Venus, lady of the seventh house, the house of marriage, is applying to a 
conjunction of the evil planet Saturn, in the fourth. (See par. 167, page 126.) 
We seldom meet with a nativity so evil for marriage as this. I have 
examined over 50,000 nativities myself, and never met with one worse for 
marriage. However amiable Lady Byron might, at times, have appeared 
to others, to her husband she would be a perfect she-devil, and could not 
help it," and it would be just as reasonable to expect the Angel Gabriel to 
live in wedlock with Satan, as Lord Byron to have continued to live with 
his wife.* 

Lord Byron married Miss Milbanke, Jan. 2d, 1815, when he was' 27 
years old, while Jupiter was transiting over his midheaven. This ill- 
starred union did not last quite a year ; soon after the birth of their 
daughter Ida, which occurred on Dec. 10th 1815, Lady Byron returned 

* Why do not the opponents of Astrology show from the examination of Byron's nativity, that 
he should have been a fool or a simpleton ; and according to the rules of Astrology, he ought to 
have lived happily and in perfect harmony with his wife? Simp)y because it is impossible to be 
done and they know it. 



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to her father and could not be prevailed upon to go back to e< Newstead 
Abby," Lord Byron's home. The separation brought Lord Byron a 
great deal of ill-will from different parties, as he writes himself : " I 
am accused of every monstrous vice, from both public and private 
rancor." 

Lord Byron's horoscope is unfortunate for children, as Jupiter, lord 
of the 5th house is in the 8th house, (the house of death) which cer- 
tainly indicates a very small family, and even that small number would 
not live to be old. 

The planet Mars, Lord Byron's significator, being in the 9th house, 
(house of long journeys) in opposition to Mercury, and both being in 
movable and cardinal signs, caused Byron to travel a great deal, and 
to be very unsettled and discontented ; also Saturn in conjunction with 
Venus in the 4th house made his home generally unhappy. It is stated 
that Lord Byron's father and mother were a very "ill-matched pair," 
and their ungovernable tempers caused them to separate. Lord Byron's 
mother returned to her father's home soon after her son's birth. 

Whenever Saturn is in the 4th house it always makes much unhappi- 
ness connected with home affairs, especially in early life. It also often 
causes the patrimony to be wasted or squandered, or the property 
dwindles away ; yet Jupiter lord of the 2d house, (house of money,) 
being in the 8th house, (house of death and wills,) and in good aspect 
to Venus and Saturn in the 4th house, would indicate that he would 
inherit a large estate. 

Whenever the planet Mercury is in evil aspect to the Moon, (the 
Moon represents the public,) that native is almost certain to have evil 
reports circulated about him or her, no matter if they live the life of a 
saint, and never do an imprudent act in their whole life. 

The opposition of the Moon and Mercury was the cause of Byron's 
lameness, Mercury being in Capricorn which rules the knees, also Saturn 
in conjunction with Venus, in mundane square to the ascendant, and in 
Aquarius which governs the ankles and limbs below the knees ; no doubt 
the lameness was brought on by accident which occured at four years of 
age,v/hen Venus came to a conjunction of Saturn in the 4th, house by 
direction. 

The Moon in the 9th .house, (the house of religion,) in opposition to 
Mercury, caused Byron to rail against the established religion, yet for all 
that, his ruling planet and the Moon being in the 9th house, (house of 
religion,) caused him to be of a religious turn of mind, but at the same 
time he was very much opposed to superstition and to such stories as 
Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden. 

Byron being born under the warlike planet Mars, made him a fighter and 
of a high temper, and very much opposed to oppression. He died after 
taking cold while helping to free the Greeks from the oppression of 
the Turks, when he was 36 years of age, when the evil planet Saturn was 
transiting over his 7th house, in opposition to his ascendant, and in 
square to Venus and its own place, and Mars his ruling planet came by 
direction to an opposition of Saturn's place in the 4th house. 



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The Moon being the giver of life in this horoscope, and being very 
much afflicted by an opposition of the planet Mercury, and also besieged 
between the two evil planets Mars and Uranus. It was impossible for 
him to have lived to be an old man, even if he had lived a very temperate, 
quite and uneventful life. 



Nearly all the above was published" in " Broughton's Monthly Planet 
Reader," December, 1869, during the time of the great excitement 
caused by the publication in the "Atlantic Monthly" of the scandal of 
Lord Byron, as stated by Lady Byron, and written by Mrs. Harriet 
Beecher Stowe. 

Lady Byron reported that Mrs. Colonel Leigh, half sister of Lord 
Byron, had one or more children to her half brother. The English 
nation treated the scandal with the contempt that it deserved, by sub- 
scribing to, and erecting a statue to Lord Byron in London ; that the 
whole scandal was pure imagination in Lady Byron's own mind, there 
is no question or doubt, and that it was created by her own jealous dis- 
position. The nativity of Lord Byron proves that it was absolutely 
impossible for such a disgraceful occurence to have taken place. 

Any Astrologer who examines the horoscope of Byron will see at 
once that it was impossible for any harmony to have continued between 
his half sister and himself, as the planet Mercury is in the 3d house, (the 
house of brothers and sisters,) and is almost in exact opposition to the 
Moon, (the Moon is always the co-significator in a nativity,) therefore 
it is much more likely that there would be constant unpleasantness or 
enmity, between Mrs. Leigh and Lord Byron, rather than strong affection 
or love, and that they would disagree much more when children than 
the average family of brothers and sisters. In addition to the above 
testimony Mars, Byron's ruling planet, is applying to an opposition of 
Mercury, in the 3d house, which shows the very opposite of affection 
and love between himself and his half sister. 

I have inserted the horoscope of Lord Byron chiefly to point out the 
falsehood of Lady Byron's scandalous report, and also to explain their 
unhappy married life, according to the principles and rules of Astrology. 
Also to explain by the same science, that there would be a similar bitter 
feeling, almost hatred between Lord Byron and his half-sister that there 
was between him and Lady Byron, as the Moon makes the same aspect, 
in relation to brothers and sisters, that it did for marriage — that is, the 
Moon applied to an opposition of Mercury in the 3d house, (the house 
of relations,) and also to illustrate the unhappiness or even hatred and 
suspicion which it often produces in families, when parties getting 
married, disagree and separate. 

There is no doubt that the feelings which Lord Byron expressed in 
his "Farewell to England" has been the sentiment and feelings of 
thousands of persons who have been divorced from their life partners 
and that if the method of the Chinese and East Indian people could be 
adopted of comparing horoscopes before marriage these unhappy unions 
could be avoided and it would prevent those bickerings, quarrels and 



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separations, and might even be the means of promoting lasting happiness, 
in families similar to what is stated to exist in the East Indies and China. 

In my practice I have noticed that horoscopes indicating unhappy 
marriages often run in families. When Lord Byron's father and mother 
quarreled and separated, it is not to be wondered at that Lord Byron 
should separate also from his wife. Also in the case of Lillian Russell, 
her father and mother did not live harmoniously, and so I might mention 
hundreds of other similar cases which have come under my notice.* 

Even those men and women who have succeeded in getting divorces, 
have often expressed their feelings on the subject by saying that if 
they married a second time they would not go through the anxiety of 
getting a divorce again, even if they were sure their next husband or 
wife intended to kill them. Many of these persons who have been 
uuhappy in marriage and separated, if they had a good command of 
language, would express themselves in prose in similar words that Lord 
Byron so elegantly expressed in poetry. f 

I have inserted the following poem to show what anguish of mind and 
heart it sometimes causes both men and women when marriage results in 
unhappiness and separation, and such separation might all be avoided by 
the study and application of the principles of Astrology, and following 
the practice of the people of the East Indies. 

That Lord Byron was very much in love with his wife is shown, by 
the line which says: "I bless thee, I woo thee my wife." What a 
difference of feeling there is in the above line and the envious, spiteful 
hate of Lady Byran towards her late husband who had been dead over 
50 years. Yet Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe endeavored to represent 
her as a perfect saint. Let us hope that there will be but few such 
saints in heaven. 

* In December 1897, a member of the Legislature of Ohio introduced a bill in the Assembly, 
which if it is passed, would compel even' man or woman living in that state contemplating marriage 
to go before a doctor to be examined to see if there was any insanity, heredity or contagious 
disease, or any other affliction of :hat nature in either of the parties. 

For my part I do not approve of any of those laws compelling people to do so and so, and 
inflicting penalties or fines if those laws are not complied with. 

Let the people learn that it is to their own advantage and benefit to be satisfied that their life 
partner is free from all the above complaints mentioned in the aforesaid bill, then it will not require 
any laws on the matter, they will only need intelligence. 

In China and the East Indies and many other countries, the people have learned by experi- 
ence that it is to their mutual advantage to compare horoscopes previous to getting married, and 
if they had not proved it, it is unreasonable that the system would have continued for such a long- 
period, and I have no doubt that if the people in Europe and America would follow the same 
custom, one Court of Justice in New York City would not be turning out divorces at the rate of 
15 per day, as I have seen it stated in the newspapers. 

It is remarkable that unhappy marriages runs in families; ] have calculated horoscopes in 
some families for the past two or three generations without finding one horoscope in these families 
where the planets did not indicate an unhappy marriage. It might be as well for these families to 
discontinue marrying so that the breed might die out, and make room for families who are fortunate 
in a married life. 



t When a good Astrologer hears a person speak or sees their style of writing on any sub- 
ject, he can generally tell the positions of the planets and their aspects in that person's horoscope. 
One evening I heard Lillian Russell's mother lecture on marriage, she was railing against it, as 
being nothing but slavery for women. 

I knew at once that either she had Saturn or Mars in the 7th house (the house o'f marriage,) 
or the Sun first mode an evil aspect of one of these planets for marriage. When I procured her 
time of birth I found that she had Saturn in the 7th house, and the Sun first made a square of 
Mars for marriage. No wonder she was opposed to women marrying. 



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ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 



BYRON'S FAREWELL TO ENGLAND. 



Oh ! land of my fathers and mine, 

The noblest, the best, and the bravest ; 

Heart-broken, and lorn, I resign 
The joys and the hopes which thou gavest. 

Dear mother of Freedom ! farewell ! 

Even Freedom is irksome to me ; 
Be calm, throbbing heart, nor rebel, 

For reason approves the decree. 

Did I love? — Be my witness High Heaven ; 

That mark'd all my frailties and fears ; 
I adored — but the magic is riven ; 

Be the memory expunged by my tears ! 

The moment (if rapture, how bright ! 

How dazzling, how transient its glare ! 
A comet in splendor and flight, 

The herald of darkness and care. 

Recollections of tenderness gone, 

Of pleasure no more to return ; 
A wanderer, an outcast, alone, 

Oh ! leave me, untortured, to mourn. 

Where — where shall my heart find repose? 

A refuge from memory and grief! 
The gangrene, wherever it goes, 

Disdains a fictitious relief. 

Could I trace out that fabulous stream, 
Wbich Washes remembrance away, 

Again might the eye of Hope gleam 
The dawn of a happier day. 

Hath wine an oblivious power ! 

Can it pluck out the sting from the brain? 
The draught might beguile for an hour, 

But still leaves behind it the pam. 

Can distance or time heal the heart 
That bleeds from the innermost pore? 

Of intemperance lessen its smart, 
Or a cerate apply to its sore ? 

If I rush to the ultimate pole. 

The form I adore will be there, 
A phantom to torture my soul, 

And mock at my bootless despair. 

The zephyr of eve. as it flies, 

Will whisper her voice in mine ear. 

And, moist with her sorrows and sighs, 
Demand for Love's aitar a tear. 

And still in the dreams of the day, 

And still in the visions of night, 
Will fancy her beauties display, 

Disordering, deceiving the sight. 

Hence, vain fleeting images, hence! 

Grim phantoms that 'wilder my brain, 
Mere frauds upon reason and sense, 

Engender'd by folly and pain ! 

Did I swear on the altar of Heaven 

My fealty to her I adored? 
Did she give back the vows I had given, 

And plight back the plight of her lord? 

If I err'd a moment from love, 

The error I flew to retrieve ; 
Kiss'd the heart I had wounded, and strove 

To soothe, ere it ventured to grieve. 

Did T bend, who had ne'r bent before? 

Did I sue, who was used to command'' 
Love forced me to weep and implore, 

And pride was too weak to withstand. 



Then why should one frailty like mine, 
Repented, and wash'd witli my tears, 

Erase those impressions divine, 
The faith and affection of years? 

Was it well, between anger and love, 
That pride the stern umpire should be ; 

And thot heart should its flintiness prove 
On none, till it proved it on me ? 

And, ah ! was it well, when I knelt, 

Thy tenderness so to conceal, 
That witnessing all which I felt, 

Thy sternness forbade thee to feel. 

Then, when the dear pledge of our love 
Look'd up to her mother and smiled, 

Say, was there no impulse that strove 
To back the appeal of the child ? 

That bosom, so callous and chill, 
So treacherous to love and to me ; 

Ah! felt it no heart-rending thrill, 
As it turn'd from the innocent's plea? 

That ear, which was open to all, 
Was ruthlessly closed to its lord ; 

Those accents, which fiends would enthral, 
Refused a sweet peace-giving word. 

And think'st thou, dear object, — for still 
To my bosom thou only art life, 

And spite of my pride and my will, 
I bless thee, I woo thee, my wife ! 

Oh ! think'st thou that abscence shall bring 
The balm which will give the relief? 

Or time, on its life-wasting wing, 
An antidote yieid for thy grief? 

Thy hopes will be frail as the dream 

Which cheats the long moments of night, 

But melts in the glare of the beam 

Which breaks from the portal of light ; 

For when on thy babe's smiling face 
Thy features and mine intertwined 

The finger of Fancy shall trace, 
The. spell shall resistlessly bind. 

The dimple that dwells on her cheek, 
The glances that beam from her eye, 

The lisp as she struggles to speak, 
Shall dash every smile with a sigh. 

Then I, though whole oceans between 
Their billowy barrows may rear, 

Shall triumph, though far and unseen, 
Uuconscious, uncall'd shall be there. 

The cruelty sprang not from thee, 
'T was foreign and foul to thy heart, 

That levell'd its arrow at me, 
And fix'd the incurable smart. 

Ah, no ! 'twas another than thine 
The hand which assail'd my repose; 

It struck — and too fatallv — mine 
The wound, and its offspring of woes. 

They hated us both who destroy'd 
The buds and the promise of Spring ; 

For who, to replenish the void, 

New ties, new affections can bring? 

Alas ! to the heart that is rent 

What nostrums can soundness restore? 
Or what, m the bow ever-bent, 

The spring which carried it before? 



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The rent heart will fester and bleed, 
And fade like the leaf in the blast : 

The crack 'd yew no more will recede, 
Though vigorous and tough to the last. 

I wander — it matters not where ; 

No clime can restore me my peace, 
Or snatch from the frown of despair, 

A cheering — a fleeting release ! 

How slowly the moments will move! 

How tedious the footsteps of years ! 
When valley and mountain and grove 

Shall change but the scene of my tears. 

The stork on the perishing wall 
Is better and happier than I ; 

Content in his ivy-built hall ; 

He hangs out his home in the sky. 

But houseless and heartless I rove, 
My bosom all bared to the wind, 

The victim of pride and of love, 
I seek— but,~ah ! where can I find? 

I seek what no tribes can bestow — 
I ask what no clime can impart — 

A charm which can neutralise woe, 
And dry up the tears of the heart. 

I ask it — I seek it — in vain — 

From Ind to the northernmost pole ; 

Unheeded— unpi tied — complain, 
And pour out the grief of my soul. 

What bosom shall heave when I sigh? 

What tears shall respond when I weep? 
To my wailings what wail shall reply? 

What eye mark the vigils I keep? 

Even thou, as thou learnest to prate, 
Dear babe — while remotely I rove — 

Shall count it a duty to hate 

Where nature commands thee to love. 

The foul tongue of malice shall peal 
My vices, my faults, in thine ear, 

And teach thee, with demon-like zeal, 
A father's affection to fear. 

And oh ! if in some distant day 

Thine ear may be struck with my lyre, 

And nature's true index may say, 
" It may be — it must be my sire ! " 



Perchance to thy prejudiced eye 
Obnoxious my form may appear, 

Even nature be deaf to my sigh, 
And duty refuse me a tear. 

Yet sure in this isle, where my songs 
Have echoed from mountain and dell, 

Some tongue the sad tale of my wrongs 
With grateful emotion may tell. 

Some youth, who had valued my lay, 
And warm'd o'er the tale as it ran, 

To thee e'en may venture to say, 

" His frailties were those of a man." 

They were ; they were human, but swell'd 
By envy, and malice, and scorn, 

Each feeling of nature rebell'd, 
And hated the mask it had worn. 

Though human the fault— vhow severe, 

How harsh the stern sentence pronounced, 

E'en pride dropp'd a niggardly tear, 
My love as it grimly denounced. 

'Tis past : the great struggle is o'er ; 

The war of my bosom subsides ; 
And passion's strong current no more 

Impels its impetuous tides. 

'Tis past : my affections give way ; 

The ties of my nature are broke; 
The summons of pride I obey, 

And break Love's degenerate yoke. 

I fly, like a bird of the air, 

In search of a home and a rest ; 

A balm for the sickness of care, 
A bliss for a bosom unblest. 

And swift as the swallow that floats, 
And bold as the eagle that soars, 

Yet dull as the owlet whose notes 
The dark fiend of midnight deplores ! 

Wife, infant, and country, and friend, 

Ye wizard my fancy no more, 
I fly from your solace, and wend 

To weep on some kindlier shore. 

The grirn-visaged fiend of the storm 
. That raves in this agonized breast, 
Still raises his pestilent form, 
Till Death calm the tumult to rest. 



In the early part of March, 1886, a correspondent signing himself J. J. Y,, asked the editor 
of the New York '' World " for some information about Astrology, and received the following for 
his answer, " In this day and generation, a man who believes that the planets govern our actions 
should not let any one know it, such an admission is prima facie evidence of insanity or idiocy,'' 

Learned men and editors of newspapers are constantly making remarks similar to the above 
without bringing a single fact to prove their assertions. In short all the facts that I have gained 
from experience and inserted in this book, go to prove the very opposite, so much so that I cannot 
but regard all persons who do not " believe that the planets govern our actions, is prima facie 
evidence of insanity or idiocy."' It certainly proves ignorance or stupidity. 

All the nativities that I have given prove this beyond a question, and I am waiting for the 
enemies of Astrology to prove the opposite For instance let them produce a horoscope of a person 
in which the Moon first makes an opposition of Saturn or Mars or even Mercury, like Lord Byron's, 
and prove that they lived happy married lives, or like Lillian Russell, where Saturn is in the 
ascendant in opposition to Mars, setting, and prove that they were happy in marriage. 

The planets not only have a great influence in controlling our actions, but they control our 
thoughts and our speech. We have a remarkable proof of this assertion in Lord Byron's "Fare- 
well to England," Had Byron had a fortunate horoscope for marriage how different his " Farewell " 
would have read. 

If Byron had had a nativity like Queen Victoria for marriage, whose Sun made a good aspect 
of Jupiter in the midheaven. and Jupiter also lord of the 7th house, then instead of railing against 
his wife he would have been praising her and regarding marriage as the greatest blessing that 
could come to either man or woman, and like Queen Victoria would not recognize a man or woman 
who was divorced from their husband or wife. 



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ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 



HOROSCOPE OF THE YOUNG KING OF SPAIN. 

Alfonso XIII., King of Spain, was born May 17th, ] 886, at 0.30 
p. m., Madrid, Spain. 

This young King was born with 8° of Virgo rising and 5°of Gemini 
culminating; Mercury is lord of both the ascendant and midheaven, 
and is his ruling planet ; he has Mars and Jupiter in the ascendant. 
Mars in sextile to Saturn on the cusp of the 1 ith house, and Jupiter in 
close trine to Neptune, and the Sun both culminating. 

The Moon is low down in the 3d house, in Scorpio, leaving a good 
aspect of Mars, and making a good aspect of Jupiter. The student to 
get a personal description of the young King, should read par. 18, page 
97, par. 129, page 118, par. 97, page 112, par. 85, page 109, par. 105, 
page 1 13, and par. 247, page 121, par. 225, page 133, par. 2 14, page 132. 




Chart of the Heavens for the Birth of the Young King of Spain, 
May 17th, 1886, 0.30 p. m., Madrid, Spain. 

As Alfonso grows up he will be rather dark complexioned, near or 
below the medium height, not tall, but have a straight walk, rather high 
forehead, prominent eyes and nose, fine noble features, and rather hand- 
some, but very likely to get a mark or scar on the face in some part of 
his life. He will also be very liable to meet with accidents, particularly 
to the head, face and abdomen. As he gets older he will become quite 
stout, similar to Queen Victoria, as he is born under 'he same planet in 
the same sign, and then he will look much shorter, but will have a very 
gentlemanly appearance, and like the Queen, he will be very ambitious. 

Mars in the ascendant in aspect to Saturn in the ) ith house, (the 
house of friends,) will cause him, when he becomes of age, often to be at 



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Alphonso XIII., King of Spain, his Mother, the Queen Regent, 
and his Two Sisters. 

war with other nations, but he will generally come off victorious, and 
gain much renown. His horoscope is fortunate for overcoming his 
enemies, both in war and diplomacy. 

Jupiter in the ascendant in trine to the Sun near the midheaven, makes 
him very benevolent, kind-hearted and affectionate, especially to friends, 
for whom he will be willing to make great sacrifices, if they are in need 



334 ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 

or distress. But Saturn in the 11th house will make his friends very 
deceitful toward him, and those whom he helps are almost certain to 
return evil for good, or become enemies. His horoscope in that respect 
is similar to Horace Greeley, as the late editor had Saturn in the 11th 
house (or house of friends. ) * 

He has what we call a very fortunate horoscope, I think equally as fortu- 
nate as Queen Victoria's, as Jupiter in the ascendant in exact trine to 
the Sun and Neptune in the young King's horoscope is equally as strong 
as Victoria's Jupiter in the midheaven in good aspect to Mars. 

Spain will be very prosperous under his reign, and it will become one 
of the leading nations of the earth before his death. He will have a 
religious tendency, but will be liberal, or opposed to superstition, and 
the Catholic Church in his kingdom will undergo reforms during his 
reign. 

The Sun is the giver of life in this horoscope, and its being so well 
dignified by being near the midheaven and in trine to Jupiter in the 
ascendant, there is no doubt he will live to be an old man,f the only 
danger is, he may be killed in war by fire-arms or by accident, but- 1 
shall expect them to be only narrow escapes. On the whole, he will 
enjoy good health, but be liable to suffer from weakness of the stomach, 
liver and intestines • he will also have some kidney difficulty if he does 
not lead a temperate life. 

He is very likely to marry early in life, and will be very fortunate 
in marriage. The first aspect the Moon makes is to Jupiter, although 
previous to that it will make an opposition of Neptune, but the native 

* Horace Greeley in one of his editorials iw the " New York Tribune " advised his readers to 
md help one another. He stated that he had often helped people and lent them money, but 
it had been his misfortune never to have anything returned to him, except in one instance, when 
he received $5.00 in a letter from a person he had formerly lent that amount to, and it was so con- 
trary to all his previous experiences that he was astonished, but on looking at the heading of the 
letter which contained the $5.00, he found it was written in an "insane asylum." So it will be 
the case of the young King of Spain, if ever he has any borrowed money returned to him, he will 
know that party has become insane, instead of honest. 



t I copy the following remarks of the young King of Spain from the New York Journal of 
March gth, i 

■ V iung Aiphonso XIII. has all the marks of degeneracy apparent in his features. He has the 
protruding ears, upon which point of physiognomy Max Nordau lays so much stress; he has a nose 
flattened at the poii - forehead and a receding jaw, and he talks with a lisp." 

I have often observed that the planetary influences are much stronger than hereditary tenden- 
d d the case of the young King of Spain. 

When it was first cabled over that the young King of Spain was born, it was the general im- 
pression that he could not live, having had such a profligate father, who shortened his life by his 
bad habits. His mother not bearing the best name for virtue and good conduct, and all his 
relations for several generations had not the best of reputation for correct living, yet when I saw 
his horoscope, I was convinced that he not only would live to grow up, but live to be an old man, 
very powerful as a King, and be equally as successful during his reign as Queen Victoria 

ly to become Queen of England, the impression was general 

that she could not live, as ; hers had been unfortunate in their married lives, and in- 

lily. Her father and most cf her relations died voting. Her grandfather, 

me for many years, and her uncle George IV. had led a very ptofligate life, 

not live with his wife, and her own mother did not have the veiv best of reputation, as 

King William accu t treating her daughter properly. Her great great grandfather and 

it grandfather, George I. and George II., had very bad reputations for morality, and yet 

Victoria has led a very honorable and virtuous life, and has been a pattern for the wives' of 

md. 

Such horoscopes a- the young King of Spain and Queen Victoria's, appear to defy all hereditary 

taints, ' ems to overt.: iterating tendencies. No matter 

vvhai kind of ea the young King has. he will prove !o the sorrow of 

the Kings and Emperors of Europe the fortunate planetary influences in his horoscope. 



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never marries the person indicated by the planet Neptune, it will only 
be a disappointment; very likely to marry when a little over 21 years of 
age. His wife will be above the medium height, dark complexioned, with 
dark hair, oval face, high forehead, well built but not stout ; a very 
good carriage and figure, clear or fair skin and handsome features, and 
somewhat older than himself. For a personal description of the lady the 
student should see par. 85, page 109, also par. 225, page 133. They 
will live very happily and both be contented with each other. His wife 
is likely to live to a good age, but he will outlive her. She will bring 
him much wealth or territory and influence. His wife will not have a 
large family of children, probably not more than two or three, of which 
only one may live, as Saturn is lord of the 5th house, and is in exact 
opposition to its own sign, and leaving a square of Uranus and making 
a square of Venus in the 8th house, (the house of death.) She will 
have more boys than girls. 

Spain will be equally as fortunate under the reign of King Alfonso 
XIII. as that of Great Britain under Queen Victoria, the former having 
Jupiter in the ascendant, in close trine to the Sun and Neptune, culmin- 
ating ; it is as strong as Victoria's Jupiter in the midheaven, in sextile 
to Mars in its own sign in the 1 2th. The Prince was born under Mer- 
cury in Taurus, in the Qth house, which is stronger than the ruling planet 
of Victoria in the 12th house. 

The young King generally enjoyed fair health during his early years, 
but he had an evil time when he was 2 years old, very probably suffered 
from some severe fever, when Mars came by direction to the ascend- 
ant ; also another marked evil aspect occured when 7 years old when 
his life was in great danger. He had a number of evil aspects that 
commenced about January 1st, 1895. In that year Uranus was transit- 
ing over the Moon's place in his horoscope. In January, 1896, 
Saturn was transiting over his Moon's place which continued to afflict 
him nearly the whole year. At the same time Uranus came to an 
opposition of his Neptune and Sun's places, which continued all the year. 
From May 1st, 1897, to about the middle of November, he had both 
Uranus and Saturn transiting in opposition to both Neptune and the 
Sun's places. He and the kingdom of Spain w r ould have felt those evil 
influences more than they did, if it had not been that during this time, 
both Uranus and Saturn were in close good aspect to his Jupiter's place 
in the ascendant, which modified the evil influences and made Spain vic- 
torious, but as it was, one misfortune after another befell the nation and 
colonies, which caused much suffering to both ; but those evil aspects 
have now passed. He has an evil aspect commencing about Feb. 1st, 
and continuing to the middle of May, 1898. Saturn will be in evil aspect 
to Mars's place, and afflicting the 4th house during that time, and Spain 
is likely to be embroiled in serious difficulties, and his own life may be 
threatened by accident or fire-arms : disturbances and riots, both in 
Spain and in her colonies, and danger of sickness, accidents or death to 
his mother is also likely, but after May 1898, the influences gradually 
improve. He will be verv fortunate when he arrives at the age of 22, 
and Spain will become very prosperous. 



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ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 



HOROSCOPE OF THE MULTI-MILLIONAIRE, JAY GOULD. 

This gentleman was born under the planet Mercury, in the last degrees 
of Gemini, with that sign on the ascendant, and applying to a trine 
aspect of Saturn, a sextiie of Mars, and a trine of Uranus. Six planets 
were rising. Neptune had culminated, and Saturn and the Moon had set. 
These positions of the heavenly bodies would describe a person near or 
below the medium height, slender built, thin face, prominent nose, 
sunken eyes, of a thoughtful tendency, dark complexion and dark hair. 
For a personal description of him, see Mercury in Cancer, ''not Mercury 
in Gemini,) as we always describe a person as indicated by the planet in 
the following sign, or the sign that it is near entering, when it is over 28 
degrees in the sign it is leaving. Therefore the student will read for 



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Chart of the Heavens for the Birth of Jay Gould, 
May 27th, 1836, at 5.35 a.m., Roxbury, N. Y. 

the personal description of Jay Gouid, Mercury in Cancer, par. 131, 
page 118, par. 15, page 97, par. 220, page 133, par. 138, page 134, par 
209, page 132, and also the Moon in the sign Libra, as the Moon is 
always co-significator in a nativity, and especially in this horoscope, as 
the Moon is applying to a trine of the planet Mercury, see par. 146, 
page 1 20, and by combining the whole, the student will get a very good 
description, both physical, mental and moral of the late Mr. Jay Gould. 

Mercury is near entering a sign in which it has no dignities, but is 
not otherwise afflicted, so we can not say in this case Mr. Gould was a 
"very mean little wretch." 

One of the main reasons why I have inserted this horoscope is to show 
the influence of the two most fortunate planets, Jupiter and Venus, in 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 337 

the zd house (the house of money) unafflicted, except a square of the 
Moon, which is not counted an affliction ; old authors say that that as- 
pect is more fortunate than a good aspect of the Moon to Saturn or 
Mars. Jupiter is in its exaltation on the cusp of the 2d house in Mr. 
Gould's horoscope, which makes the money house very fortunate indeed 
for accumulating wealth, though the close opposition of Mars and 
Saturn, and the square of the Sun and Uranus, did not make him very 
particular as to the methods of accumulating it; these evil aspects, par- 
ticularlv the opposition of Mars and Saturn from the house of friends, 
gave him but few friends who had confidence in him. 

No doubt if he had been more honest, and had treated his friends or 
business associates with a little more consideration, he would have died 




Jay Gould. 

much richer than he did. Numbers of men have told me they would 
have nothing to do with him or his stocks under any consideration, for 
if he learned they were dealing in any securities, over which he had any 
control, he was certain to try to swindle or ruin them. 

It would be very easy for people to become millionaires, (particularly 
if they were honest,) were they born with Jupiter and Venus strong in 
the house of money and unafflicted. See par. 2, page 90. One with 
such a horoscope could not fail to become rich. Mr. Gould accumulated 
most of his wealth by planning and scheming, and actually robbing 
others. 

There is no question but Mr Gould was one of the smartest men 
there ever was in Wall Street , his significator, Mercury, is in Gemini 
in the ascendant, making a trine of Satuin and a sextile of Mars, which 



338 ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 

made him very smart, a close calculator, and caused him to seldom make 
a mistake in his calculations. 

This horoscope does not indicate one that would live to an old age, 
as the ascendant is the giver of life, and Mercury is in the ascendant, 
and in the last degrees of Gemini, in good aspect to the Moon, Saturn 
and Mars, which would cause him to live to a fair age, but he never 
would be remarkably strong. No doubt he died from some weakness of 
the chest or stomach, and suffered from indigestion or liver difficulty. 

The horoscope is fortunate for marriage as the Moon first makes a 
trine aspect of Mercury in the ascendant. Jay Gould and his wife 
would live rather harmoniously and pleasantly together, but on account 
of the Moon making a conjunction of Saturn and an opposition of Mars, 
at the time it made a trine of Mercury, his wife would not live to old 
age, and he would outlive her ; she would have delicate health .and seldom 
be strong. 

Mrs. Gould would be near or below the medium height, rather 
slender when young, but after middle age became slightly full built, 
oval face, round forehead, rather pale complexion, with brown hair. 
For a personal description read par. 131, page 118, par. 220, page 133, 
par. 83, page 109, and combine the whole. 

In the horoscope of Mr. Gould, Saturn is afflicting the 5th house, and 
is just leaving a close opposition of Mars in the 11th house; the Moon 
is separating from a square of Venus, the two planets are not one degree 
separated; that alone would indicate some scandal or unpleasantness in 
early life connected with love affairs. If the student turns to par. 303, 
page 165, he will see the rule for describing the lady a gentleman keeps 
company with, but does not marry, and for a description of the lady he 
should read par. 1 19, page ] 16. 

There is no question but there was some improper conduct on her 
part, and more than likely a child was born, but that there was no 
marriage is almost absolute, as the Moon was separating from the aspect 
of Venus ; though possibly the female was made to believe that there 
was a marriage, as Mr. Gould would not be troubled with very much 
conscience in such matters, especially in early life. 

It does not always imply when the Moon is separating from an aspect 
of a planet in a male's nativity, even if it is an evil aspect of an evil 
planet, or that in a female's horoscope, the Sun is separating from an 
evil aspect of a planet, that in all such cases there has always been some 
improper condnct between the parties, but it shows strong suspicion. 
In Mr. Gould's horoscope Saturn is afflicting the 5th house, (the house 
of pleasure,) in such close opposition to Mars, and the Moon just separ- 
ating from a square of Venus (the goddess of pleasure,) the aspect is so 
marked it would show a very strong suspicion, if not an absolute cer- 
taintv, of improper conduct, even if there had never been a whisper on 
the subject bv anv person living. 

The Moon in the ;th house, a fruitful planet, and in good aspect to 
Mercury, indicated he would have a rather large family, and be some- 
what fortunate with them, although they wonld cause him at times, a 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 339 

world of trouble, especially in their early years, and also it is very 
doubtful if his children will be anything like as fortunate as he was on 
account of the opposition of Saturn and Mars from the 5th house, (or 
house of children.) 

Mr. Gould must have had a great many afflictions in his early life, 
both from poverty and serious attacks of illness, as all the planets except 
the Sun that were above the earth at his birth, were evil planets, and 
Uranus in the midheaven always causes serious misfortunes and unex- 
pected changes to the native in early life ; but those evil influences are 
indicated in a more marked manner by the close opposition of Saturn 
and Mars, and those afflictions no doubt had much to do with causing 
him to be in stature below the medium. 

He had marked evil periods at 1, 2, 7, 8, 11,14 an< ^ l 5 y ears °f a g e ; 
each of these times would bring serious illness for himself, and misfor- 
tunes for his family, but after that age things would begin to brighten up 
with him. At 21, 22, 29 and 30 misfortunes would also come, but 
afterwards prosperity would begin to smile on him. 

I explained to several of my pupils Mr. Gould's horoscope, and 
pointed out the evil aspects for illness, as I deemed it an impossibility 
for him to live by a certain evil aspect which came up in 1892, as his 
horoscope did not indicate a long life; Saturn's transit over the ascend- 
ant (the giver of life,) and Uranus over his Sun's place, and in square 
to its own place, his health began to fail in a very marked degree. 
These evil influences commenced in Sept., 1890, but they v/ere more 
marked in the latter part of 1891, and in the spring of 1892, as Saturn 
was transiting over his ascendant all that time, and Uranus over his 
Sun's place, but what was most effective in destroying life was when 
Saturn came to an opposition of the degree ascending by direction, which 
came up in the latter part of 1892. He died Dec. 2d of that year. 



Seven Concise Reasons why Everyone should have a Reading of their 
Lives, and Strive to Know more of the Science of Astrology. 

1. It makes a man or woman acquainted with themselves. It shows 
them what profession or capacity of life they are best adapted for, and 
in which they will best succeed. 

2. It points out most distinctly the times of prosperity and the times 
of adversity, thus showing when to push ahead and when to keep quiet 

3. It describes the person you will choose for a wife or husband, and 
the kind of persons you should choose for friends, and the persons you 
should avoid who will prove to be enemies. 

4. It points out the kind of business or profession you should teach 
your children for them to be successful. 

5. It shows the disease to which the person is naturally subject, also 
points out the natural remedy for such disease. 

6. It shows whether a person is liable to accidents or not, and if so 
when they are in most danger of these accidents. 

7. It shows a person what part of the country or world they will be 
most prosperous in and enjoy the best health. 



34° 



ELEMEN" S OF ASTROLOGY. 



HOROSCOPE OF CHARLES DICKENS. 

Mr. Dickens called on Prof. Wilson, an astrologer in London, to 
have his horoscope calculated, and he afterwards made use of it in one 
of his novels. Mr. Dickens gave the time of his birth as Feb. 15th, 
1812, at 7.50 p. m., Lamport, Hampshire, England. 

At the above time 24 of Virgo were rising, which makes Mercury in 
the sign Aquarius his ruling planet ; that will describe a person of 
medium height, slender built, light brown hair and light complexioned ; 
he had quick eyes, an intelligent look, and was prepossessing in appear- 
ance, but as he grew older he became slightly full built. For his 
personal description and mental abilities see par. 138, page 1 19, par 18, 
page 97, par. 140, page 119, pars. 247 and 248, page 135. 



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Chart of the Heavens for the,Birth of Charles Dickens, Feb. 15th, 1812, 
at 7.50 p. m., Lamport, Hampshire, England. 

What made this horoscope so remarkably fortunate was Jupiter in the 
midheaven, in the sign Gemini, in almost exact trine to the Sun in 
Aquarius in the 5th house, (the house of entertainments or amusements,) 
also Venus in an angle in the 7th house, in its exaltation, just setting, in 
semi sextile to the Sun, but in square to Jupiter in the midheaven; a 
square of Jupiter and Venus is counted a fortunate aspect, rather than 
unfortunate.) 

I have seldom seen a horoscope so fortunate for intellect, and excel- 
ling as a writer or speaker ; having the Moon in a cardinal sign, 
Aries, which rules the head, and in an angle in good aspect to his ruling 
planet Mercury, in a scientific sign, also Jupiter in good ..spect in a 



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341 




Charles Dickens. 

scientific sign in the icth house, gives the highest order of intellect, par- 
ticularly for scientific subjects, and for being humorous, witty, and 
sarcastic in his expressions or remarks. These aspects would also cause 
him to have great ambition to rise in the world, and become prominent 
and famous. 

It would be an impossibility for a person having such a horoscope as 
Mr. Dickens to remain in obscurity or in low circumstances; he would 
be certain to rise to prominence and even become wealthy, although he 
would be a man that would have very extravagant notions, and live in 
an expensive manner ; it would also cause him to be very popular with 



34 2 ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOFY. 

the people at large and enable him to say and do many things without 
injury to himself, that would have brought misfortune, if not imprison- 
ment, on any man that had an unfortunate horoscope. Yet the Moon 
just leaving a square of Saturn would cause him tc have much trouble 
connected with home affairs and domestic life, and even some of his near 
neighbors would make trouble for him. Mr. Dickens must have had 
much unpleasantness in love affairs previous to marriage, which would 
probably delay marriage until 25 years of age. The Moon separating 
from a square of Saturn, indicates a lady described by that planet in Cap- 
ricorn that he would keep company with but not marry. See par. 303, 
page 165, and for a personal description of the lady, see par. 77, page 
107 ; the Moon also made a trine aspect of Neptune, but he would not 
marry that lady either. See par. 301, page 164. 

The next aspect the Moon makes is a conjunction of Mars in the 7th 
house, and being an unfortunate aspect, and to an unfortunate planet, 
would not produce much harmony or happiness in married life. See 
par. 300, page i6_j. For a personal description of his wife see par. 92, 
page 111, also par. 127, page 117, and combine the two to describe her 
temper and her mental abilities. As Venus is in Pisces in the 7th house 
(the house of marriage, ) in square to Jupiter, there would never be much 
love or happiness between Mr. Dickens and his wife, as it would cause 
her to be jealous and suspicious of other women. After living together 
for 20 years, and having several children they agreed, by mutual consent, 
to a separation. The conjunction of the Moon and Mars in the 7th 
house, would cause his wife to have a bad temper and make her tyrannical. 

The wife's sister, who probably had much to do with their separation, 
and who afterwards kept house for Mr. Dickens, is indicated by the planet 
Venus in Pisces in the 7th house, and lady of the 9th house, (the house 
of the wife's relations.) See par. 127, page 117, also par. 82, page 
109 for her description, temper, etc. She would be much more agree- 
able and pleasant in her manners than his wife. 

Although Mr. Dickens had several children born to him, still he 
would not live harmoniously with them, as the Moon is in square to 
Saturn, lord of the 5 th house, (the house of children,) and they would 
be of little benefit to him, and very probably he did not reside with 
them. Mr. Dickens generally would enjoy fair health, but would suffer 
much from poverty and misfortune in early life, as Saturn is afflicting the 
4th house, and especially its being in square to the Moon would make 
much unhappiness for him in early life, and would also cause much 
quarreling between his father and mother. He died June 9th, 1870, 
when Saturn was in the 4th house in almost exact square to his ascend- 
ant and his Venus's place, and Uranus was in the 10th house, in almost 
exact square to Mars. 



"There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, 
all the voyage of life is bound in shallows and in miseries " — Shakespeare. 

Astrology has been accepted and practiced by the greatest and most intelligent minds that have 
ever lived. The study of Astrology ieaches one of the greatest and most universal "Laws of 
Nature " which no other science does teach. 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. O J4^ 

HOROSCOPE OF GEN. ULYSSES SIMPSON GRANT, 
Born April 27TH, 1822, at 5.00 a. m., Galena, III. 

The time of birth was obtained from Gen. Grant's father, and no 
doubt it is correct; if so he was born with 3 of Taurus rising, and 
Venus, lady of that sign, in the sign Pisces in the 12th house, in close 
good aspect to the Moon in Cancer in the 4th house, and Saturn, Jupiter 
and the Sun all in the ascendant, which caused him to be born under 
the four above named planets and the Moon. 

They would describe a person near or below the medium height, full 
built and inclined to be stout, sunburnt or swarthy complexioned, with 
rather full face, broad forehead, and lightish brown hair. 

In order to get a personal description from this horoscope both physi- 
cally, intellectually and morally, the student should read, par. 14, page 
97, par. 127, page 117, par. 143, page 120, par. 69, page 106, par. 
105, page 113, par. 81, page 108, and combine the whole; by so doing 
he will get a very good personal description of Gen. Grant as he 
appeared in the prime of life. He will also arrive at his disposition and 
temperament. 

What made Gen. Grant so successful in his battles against the rebels 
was his having three superior planets rising in the ascendant, hi a fixed 
sign, Taurus, and all in close good aspect to Uranus near the midheaven. 
Venus in its exaltation inclose good aspect to the Moon in her own sign, 
in an angle, contributed also to his success; and what made Gen. Grant 
so unfortunate in early life and practically kept him almost in poverty 
up to nearly 40 years of age, was Saturn rising within orbs of the 
ascendant and above the Sun and Jupiter, at his birth. 

If Gen. Washington had had Saturn rising above his Venus in Aries 
at birth, he would have met with much more misfortune, poverty and 
distress than he did, especially in early life, and he wonld not have been 
so successful as a general, but more likely would have been hung as a 
rebel, as Gen. Washington did not have three superior planets in his 
ascendant as did Gen. Grant. 

Is it not a remarkable coincidence that Gen. Grant and Gen. Wash- 
ington should both die of throat disease, and each had Taurus on the 
ascendant which governs the throat, and Gen. Grant had Saturn so 
seriously afflicting the ascendant by conjunction, and Gen. Washington 
had Mars in close opposition to the ascendant, which aspect would be 
almost certain to cause his death by some affection of the throat. 

Is it not a strong proof of the truth of Astrology, that Gen. Grant 
and Gen. Washington should both have been born under the same 
planet — Venus — and that in both horoscopes Venus should be on the 
cusp of the 12th house, and that Gen. Grant's Venus should be in a short 
stout sign, and three planets rising in a short, stout sign, and Washington's 
Venus in a tall, light, slender sign, and the Moon also in a tall, slender 
sign, and that the personal appearance of both gentlemen should exactly 
agree with that indicated in each of their nativities. 



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ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 



There is a rule in Astrology which the student should try and keep in 
mind, and that is, " When the early degrees of a tall or short sign is on 
the ascendant, the person is almost invariably short in stature, or at least 
they are not tall, but when near 20 of a sign is on the ascendant, it is 
almost certain to give a person of tall stature. But the last few degrees 
of the sign gives a shorter stature. I have found this almost an invaria- 
ble rule in Astrology. What made Gen. Grant so original in planning 
and conquering in battles, was Uranus near the midheaven, in close trine 
to Saturn, Sun and Jupiter, all in the ascendant. It also made him an 
original thinker, and not a fighter of battles according to any special 
military rule ; in that respect he was very similar to Napoleon Bona- 
parte, who was born under Mars in Virgo, near the midheaven, in close 
trine to Uranus just setting. 




Gen. Ulysses Simpson Grant. 

Uranus near the midheaven caused Gen. Grant to have a great many 
ups and downs during his early life, and also caused him many finan- 
cial losses and misfortunes in the latter part of his life, as it was near 
a mundane square to the ascendant. 

Persons born with Saturn in the ascendant generally have to suffer 
poverty in their early years and very often are in poor or weak health 
all through early life. Saturn in the ascendant and Venus in a watery 
sign in close aspect to the Moon, caused him to acquire the habit of 
using tobacco and stimulants. 

The Moon first made a square of Saturn for his marriage, which cer- 
tainly in early married life could not have been very fortunate, or con- 
ducive to happiness, although being in the ascendant they would become 
much more attached to each other after middle age. For a personal 
description of Gen. Grant's wife see par. 69, page 106, also par. 96, 



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345 



page 111, which describes a lady near the medium height, full built, pale 
complexion, dark hair, and not very refined in appearance or manner. 

An evil planet in the 5th house, as Gen. Grant had, is not very good 
for children ; they are apt to be extravagant, if not a source of annoyance 
to their parents. 

It is very seldom that we see a horoscope so strong for overcoming 
enemies or difficulties as that of Gen. Grant's, with three superior planets 
in the ascendant in fixed signs ; there were very few generals in the army 
during the rebellion that had stronger or more powerful horoscopes. 




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Chart of the Heavens for the Birth of Gen. Ulysses Simpson Grant, 
April 27th, 1822, 5.00 a. m., at Galena, 111. 

Being born under the planet Venus in the 12th house, (the house of 
sorrow,) although in good aspect to the Moon, caused him to have 
periods of worry and despondency, even after he became general, and 
afterwards President of the United States ; and Saturn, lord of the 1 ith 
house, afflicting the ascendant, caused him to be exceedingly unfortunate 
in regard to his friends. He would generally be surrounded by 
unprincipled people. 

The planet Venus in its exaltation rising in close trine to the Moon 
in the 4th house in its own sign, indicates that Gen. Grant's name will 
last probably as long as the name of the United States. 



' The ruling; stars above ; bv secret laws, 
Determine Fortune in her second cause; 
These are a book wherein we all may read, 
And all should know who would in life succeed. 



The history of Astrology is coeval with that of man. It formed the basis of all ancient religions 
and mythology, and is indissolubly interwoven with the sacred truths of the Christian religion. 



34$ 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 



From Broughton's Monthly Planet Reader, for Sept., 1861. 

HOROSCOPE OF PRESIDENT GEORGE WASHINGTON, 

Born Feb. iith, 1732, at 10 a. m., Virginia. 

" He was a man, take him for all in all, 
I shall not look upon his like again." — Shakespeare. 

" In Mr. Edward Everett's ; Life of Gen. Washington ' it states that 
in the family Bible now in possession of George Washington Bassett, of 
Hanover county, Virginia, the following entry is found : * George 
Washington, son to Augustine and Mary his wife, was born ye 1 lth day 
of February, 1732, about 10 in the morning.' And then Mr. Everett 
adds that he was accordingly born on the 2zd of February, new style. 




Chart of the Heavens for the Birth of Gen. George Washington, 
Feb. nth, 1732, at 10 a. m., Virginia. 

" The above time of birth caused Gen. Washington to be born under 
the planet Venus, in the sign Aries, with the sign Taurus on the ascend- 
ant, and the Moon in Gemini rising, which positions of Venus and the 
Moon will describe a person of tall stature, sanguine complexion, and 
the planet Mars in his own sign, just setting would cause him to be 
of a pensive aspect; also Venus being in trine to Mars, caused him to 
be rather handsome, and of a noble carriage. He would be of a mild 
disposition and temper, but firm, yet at times of a very high temper, but it 
would soon be over. The Moon being in the sign Gemini, the house of 
Mercury, and Venus his ruling planet, would give him good mental abili- 
ties, and a very refined turn of mind. He would have a decided taste for 
music, poetry, painting, etc. Venus applying to a conjunction of Saturn, 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 347 

and Saturn in sextile aspect to Mercury, and Mercury in trine to Jupiter, 
would indicate that he would be of a very independent spirit, and 
whenever he undertook anything, he would scorn to give it up until 
he had brought it to a final issue. Venus in trine to Mars, would cause 
him to have a taste for military life, in a just cause, and for gaining 
knowledge in warlike implements, etc. But Venus applying to a con- 
junction of Saturn would show that if he had had his choice he would 
have preferred a retired life, and it would cause him to be of a religious 
turn of mind. Venus being in trine to Uranus, would show that he was 
quite original, in his thoughts and actions, and would never be an imi- 
tator, The aspects in Gen. Washington's horoscope would indicate 
that the most remarkable trait in his character would be perseverance. 




Gen. George Washington. 

Marriage. 

"The Moon first makes a square of Venus in this horoscope, and 
the planet Mars being in the seventh house, (house of marriage) 
would indicate that the lady he married would be denoted by the above 
two planets, but chiefly by the planet Venus, which will describe a 
person about the middle stature, well built, but rather corpulent, round 
face, good complexion, and dark hair. In temper rather passionate, 
but soon over. The quality of the mind would be ingenious, active in 
gaining knowledge ; she would likewise be- very proud, and of an inde- 
pendent spirit, and rather fond of dress and company. 

" The time of Gen. Washington's marriage would be when he was 
near twenty-seven years, of age, while the planet Jupiter was transiting 
over the loth house, in good aspect to his own place, and I should say 
that it would then be a fortunate time for him generally. 



34-8 ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 

" We have not space to notice all the fortunate and unfortunate 
periods of his life, but might mention that at ten years and again at 
fifteen years of age were unfortunate periods for him; and also at twenty 
years of age was another unfortunate period. But the most fortunate 
period was in 1787 when he had Jupiter passing over the ascendant and 
over the Moon's place, besides several other fortunate aspects ; and then 
again at fifty-seven years of age, when he was elected President for the 
first time. 

Children. 

" Leo, a barren sign, being on the cusp of the 5th house (the house of 
children) and Virgo another barren sign, being intercepted in the 5th 
house, and the Moon in Gemini, another barren sign, all would indicate 
that his wife would not have any children to live. 

" On the whole, Gen. Washington's horoscope is one of the most 
remarkable I have ever examined, and if space permitted to make all the 
calculations, and trace them through his whole life, and see how they 
agreed with the events that happened to him, it would go far towards 
proving Astrology a true science." 

For the description of Gen. Washington, First, physically, as indi- 
cated by the planets at the time of birth see par. 116, page 115, par. 
44, page 102, par. 142, page 120, par. 14, page 97, par. 99, page 112. 
Second, his mental qualities see par. 138, page 119, par. 86, page 109, 
pars. 229 and 230, page 133, par. 142, page 120, par. 220, page 133. 
Third, his temper, etc., see par. 256, page 137, par. 220, page 133, 
par. 236, page 134. For the personal description and mental faculties 
of his wife, see Venus in Aries, Mars in Scorpio, and Venus in trine to 
Mars. 

The Sun, lord of the 5th house (house of speculation, etc.,) is in the 
nth house in opposition to the Part of Fortune in the 5th house. This 
paused Gen. Washington to be generally unfortunate in card playing, and 
he refers a number of times in his diary to his bad luck in gambling. The 
enduring good name that Washington has received is indicated by Mer- 
cury being in a scientific and human sign in the midheaven, unafflicted ; 
also the close trine of Mercurv to the planet Jupiter setting ; a sex- 
tile aspect of both Jupiter and Mercury to Uranus, near setting, and 
Mars being in its own sign in an angle just setting, also the Moon rising 
and leaving a good aspect of Mercury and Jupiter, and the Moon not 
afflicted by any planet. 

The Moon in the 2d house, (the house of money,) caused Gen. 
Washington to be very careful in regard to money matters, and to keep a 
strict account of his expenses. 

Had Gen. Washington studied to be a physician instead of a soldier, 
he would have left an enduring name, and would have been exceedingly 
successful in his practice, as is indicated by Jupiter in the 6th house, (the 
house of sickness,) and in close good aspect to Mercury in the mid- 
heaven, and applying to a good aspect of Uranus on the cusp of the 8th 
house. His very presence in a sick room would have been beneficial to 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 34.9 

his patients and they would have got well, even if he gave them nothing 
but cold water. It is very seldom that we see a horoscope so remarkably 
fortunate for being successful as a doctor. 

Mr. Elkanah Watson gives a very interesting account in his diary of 
his visit to Mount Vernon in 1785. On his journey he had taken a 
severe cold, it being a harsh wintry day, and he coughed excessively. 
Washington pressed him to take some remedy to relieve it, but he de- 
clined. After retiring his cough increased ; Washington during the 
night entered his bedroom, and came to the bedside with a bowl of hot 
tea in his hands to relieve his cough. 

I give this illustration of Washington's tenderness and kindness to 
persons when suffering from illness. Had Washington prescribed a bowl 
of hot tea for himself during his last illness, instead of being treated by 
the Allopathic doctors, it is probable that he might have lived to witness 
the prosperity of his country for a number of years longer. 



Prof. Draper on William Lilly's Astrology. 

On page 183 and 184 of this work under the heading "Medical 
Astrology," I gave an account of Prof. Diaper, of this city, publishing an 
article in " Harper's Magazine," ridiculing William Lilly and his work 
on Astrology. I there stated if Dr. Draper had wanted material for a 
Farce or a Comic Opera for the college students, he need not have gone 
back two hundred years in search of it. Such material he might have found 
in his own country and within one hundred years, and in his own system of 
treating disease, or what is called the allopathic practice of medicine. If 
not too serious a matter for jest, the last illness and death of Gen. George 
Washington, and the treatment by the allopathic doctors for croup at that 
time, would be a splendid subject for an audience of Medical students, and 
cause them to split their sides with laughter over, if they could only disabuse 
their minds of the idea that it was a real tragedy However I give the 
account of the treatment of Gen. Washington's last illness as published by 
his physicians and will let the student judge for himself. 

Sickness and Allopathic Treatment of Gen. George Washington. 

Most of the prominent or wealthy men and women of this country have been helped out of 
this world by the doctors. I refer to the death of Gen. Washington, Vice-President Hendricks, 
Brigham Young, Roscoe Conkling and Gen. Grant, and I might mention hundreds of other 
names. "I could a tale unfold," in the treatment of the last sickness of any of these men, but 
I will only touch upon the doctor's allopathic treatment of the first named gentleman. I choose 
this one on account of his name being more generally known than any of the others ; and 
for the reason that ihere cannot be a question raised in regard to the last treatment of Gen. 
Washington by the allopathic doctors, as we have the account of it signed by his attending 
physicians. Also I believe it is not generally known by the people of the United States that Geo. 
Washington did not die a natural death, but was murdered by his doctors. And bear in mind, in 
pub ishing these statements, that I do not refer to the lower class or the most ignorant of the allo- 
pathic doctors, but on the contrary to those who are the leaders in this particular practice, and 
to those who are determined that we shall have no Other system of medicine. 

Gen. Washington appeared to have had a charmed life until he met with those allopathic 
doctors. I believe in a'l the battles in which he was engaged, he never received a wound, and 
was but seldom ill. During the retreat of Gen. Braddock, there was an Indian who afterwaids 
stated that he (the Indian) took deliberate aim, and shot at Col. Washington, some six or eight 
different times, and yet he missed him every time, although the Indian was counted a "good shot.'' 
Therefore he came to the conclusion that Washington was protected by the Great Spirit. But 
after the allopathic doctors be~an doctoring him, his charmed life soon vanished from the world. 

I copy the last treatment of Gen. Washington from the " Botanic Medical Reformer and Home 
Physician?" 1 published by Dr. Henry Hollembaek, in Philadelphia, Pa , Dec 19th, 1840, Vol. i, 
No. 7. Dr. Henry Hollembaek was professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics in the medical 
college from which I graduated. 



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I have seen the same report of Gen. Washington's last sickness printed in an English allo- 
pathic medical work, and it was there published as a specimen of the American heroic practice 
of medic itie And no doubt the reader will come to the conclusion that it was even more heroic 
than the treatment of Mr. Maybrick, who died in Liverpool, England ; as Mr. May brick was 
under the doctor's treatment for near three weeks before they succeeded in killing him, whereas, 
Gen. Washington was only under his doctor's treatment for a little over twelve hours. Yet during 
that short period he was bled copiously at three different times, and once the night before. And 
they gave him 20 or 30 grains of Calomel, 5 or 6 grains of Emetic Tartar, besides the blisters 
and other treatment, enough to kill any man. 

The Physician's Report of Gen. Washington's Last Sickness. 

" Some time in the night of Friday, the 13th of December, 1799, having been exposed to rain 
on the preceding day, Gen. Washington was attacked with an inflammatory affection of the upper 
part of the wind-pipe, called in technical language cyna7iche trachea/is. The disease commenced 
with a violent ague, accompanied by some pain in the upper and fore part of the throat, a sense of 
stricture in the same part, a cough and a difficult rather than a painful deglutition, which were soon 
succeeded by a fever and a quick and laborious respiration. The necessity of blood letting sug- 
gested itself to the General, he procured A BLEEDER in the neighborhood, who took from his 
arm in the night, TWELVE or FOURTEEN OUNCES OF BLOOD ; he would not by any 
means be prevaileduipon by the family to send for the attending physician till the following morn- 
ing, who arrived at Mount Vernon at about eleven o'clock on Saturday, December 14th. Discov- 
ering the case to be highly alarming, and foreseeing the fatal tendency of the disease, two consult- 
ing physicians were immediately sent for, who arrived, one at half past three, the other at four 
o'clock in the afternoon. In the interem were employed TWO COPIOUS BLEEDINGS, a 
blister was applied to the part affected, two moderate doses of CALOMEL were given, and an 
injection administered, which operated on the lower intestines — but without any perceptible advan- 
tage, the respiration becoming still more difficult and distressing. 

" Upon the arrival of the first of the consulting physicians it was agreed, as there was yet no 
signs of accumulation in the bronchial vessels of the lungs, to try the result of ANOTHER 
BLEEDING, when about THIRTY-TWO OUNCES of BLOOD were drawn, without the 
smallest apparent alleviation of the disease. Vapors of vinegar and water were frequently inhaled, 
TEN GRAINS OF CALOMEL were given and succeeded by REPEATED DOSES OF 
EMETIC TARTAR, amounting in all to five or six grains, with no other effect than a copious 
discharge from the bowels. The powers of life seemed now manifestly yielding to the force of the 
disorder. Blisters were applied to the extremities, together with a cataplasm of bran and vinegar 
to the throat. Speaking, which was painful from the beginning, now became almost impracticable ; 
respiration grew more and more contracted and imperfect, till after eleven o'clock on Saturday night, 
retaining the full possession of his intellect, when he — expired without a struggle I " 

James Craik, Att. Physician, 
Elisha C. Dick, Con. Physician. 



If any one can read the above account of Gen. Washington's death without a struggle, I 
give him credit for stronger nerves than I possess. When these doctors put themselves in evidence, 
and were their own judge and jury and convicted themselves, it is reasonable to suppose they 
did not make their case any blacker than they could help. On the contrary there is no doubt that 
" not one half has been told." I have read in several lives of Gen. Washington that "he begged and 
prayed for the doctors to let him alone, and let him die quietly," and there is no doubt but what 
they tortured him to death by their bleeding, blistering and poisonous medicines. 

Dr. Craik and Dr. Dick published the above report as the' regular treatment for Croup, and 
the abstracting of over a half gallon of blood in twenty-four hours, and the number of blisters and 
the quantity of poisonous medicines administered in that short time, as in no way extraordinary in 
treating cases of Croup ; yet I cannot but believe if any doctor was to treat a similar disease in 
that manner at the present day, it would cause a sensation if it was published and the patient died. 

Dr. Hollembaek in his comments on the sickness and treatment of Gen. Washington says : 
" Had the physicians in attendance administered a syrup, the basis of which should have bien 
Lobelia Inflata, with a little milder treatment on the botanic plan, they would not have deprived 
that great and good man the pleasure of beholding a little longer the freedom and prosperity of 
that country for which he had so assidiously labored to achieve. The destruction of such a man as 
Washington by the means mentioned above, should be indeed, a warning never to be forgotten, and 
we sincerely hope that our friends and the public will profit by it. We hope this case will prove a 
warning, not only to the physicians of the allopathic school, but to individuals who may need medical 
aid. Let them slum this deadly instrument, the lancet, also calomel and all similar poisons, as 
they would shun the fatal sting of that reptile which has been chosen as the emblem of the allo- 
pathic school of medicine, the wily and deadly serpent." 



What a slaughter of innocents mast have occured fifty or one hundred 
years ago when they were bleeding the patients for every complaint in 
the nosology of diseases, and prescribing their depleting remedies. Even 
in my own time and what I have observed of the allopathic practice of 
medicine, in the words of Hamlet's father's ghost, " I could a tale 
unfold whose lightest word would harrow up thy soul and freeze thy 
young blood." 



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If Prof. Draper had wanted another case for a farce for the entertain- 
ment of his college students, the treatment of Mr. Maybrick, Liverpool, 
England, in 1889, who was supposed to have been poisoned by his wife, 
would answer his purpose very well. Indeed it is sometimes an impos- 
sibilitv to find out after death whether the patient died from the poisons 
of the intended murderer or the poisons prescribed by the old-school 
doctors. We have a remarkable instance in that of Mr. Mavbrick, 
whom his wife tried to poison with arsenic, and whom the doctors 
finished with their treatment. The doctors in that case ought to have 
been put on trial for their lives, the same as she was. 

I copy the following in reference to the Maybrick case from the New 
York World, September 6th, 1889 : 

MODERN MEDICATION; 
Or, the Allopathic Treatment of Mr. Maybrick. 

"The practice of medicine in Liverpool is apparently in a state fully justifying the old defini- 
tion of a physician as a ' man who pours drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he 
knows less.' 

" During his last illness of something like three weeks, the late Mr. Maybrick took from the 
hands of his physicians the longest and most incongruous list of medicines, of which public record 
has yet beer. made. Here is the catalogue, copied from an English druggists' trade journal : 

Morphia suppositories. Bromide of potassium. 

Ioecacliuanha wine. Antipyrin. 

Papain and Iridin solution. Tincture of jaborandi. 

Cascara sagrada, Bismuth. 

Nitro-hydrochloric acid- Sulphonal. 

Tincture mix vomica, Cocaine. 

Fowler's solution. Nitroglycerine. 

Piummers pill. Dilute phosphoric acid. 

Dilute hydrocyanic acid. Solution of chlorine, sanitas, glycerine 

Tincture of henbane. and Condy's fluid as mouth washes. 

"This list is justly characterized by the trade journal which published it, as ' a jumble of irra- 
tional empiricism,' and the question every physician will ask upon reading it is, '"What sort of 
seventeenth-century quacks are permitted to practice in Liverpool in the last quarter of the nine- 
teenth century? " 

Mr. Maybrick was dying of arsenical poisoning, and his doctors helped him to death by 
drenching him with pretty nearly everything they couid think of except an antidote tor arsenic. 
Carminatives, purgatives, explosives and acids were indiscriminately jumbled in the poor man's 
stomach." 

If Mr. Maybrick or Gen. Washington had lived through the sickness 
referred to, they would have felt the effect of their treatment for a long 
time afterwards, and might never have entirely overcome the bleeding 
and poisonous medicine that the doctors gave them. The great French 
Dr. Brown-Sequard's remedy, the Elixir of Life, which made such a 
great sensation among all the allopathic doctors a few years ago, both in 
Europe and in America, had to be stopped on account of the great de- 
struction of human life which it caused, and the great number of cripples 
and permanent invalids which it made. 

Dr. Koch's remedy for consumption which made such a sensation 
all over Europe and America a few years ago, is also a remedy that is 
very dangerous to human life. Indeed some say that it is move poisonous 
than the bite of a rattlesnake. And besides its being a quack or secret 
remedy, its curative effects are yet to be proven. 

The late Mr. Pasteur of Paris is reported as saying : " Up to this 
moment, there has not been a single authenticated cure, not even of 
lupus. Dr. Bergmann himself has seen a patient sufFering from lupus 
return to his hospital, fifteen days after having been discharged as cured, 



35^ ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 

a severe relapse having occured even within that brief interval. More- 
over, there is no real certainty as to the consequences of the treatment. 
The actions of this medicament is of unheard-of virulence, and the 
reactions which it brings on are terrible. 

No venom from a snake, if administered in such small doses (two- 
tenths of a milligramme) could cause such results. We have therefore 
a toxic or such indomitable energy that it may introduce into the organ- 
ism disorders the consequences of which no one can surmise, and have 
yet to be studied. You may have seen a report in the medical papers, 
that albuminuria and haematuria have been found in a patient who had 
been treated for tuberculosis, with very small doses of this lymph. In 
fact, it is the kidneys that are particularly affected by it." — (New York 
Medical Record, Dec. 27th, 1890.) 

I copy the following from the New York Herald of March 8th, 1891 : 

"Weal! know, now, says Prof. Verneu.il, in a recent clinical lecture delivered at the Hotel 
Dieu of Pahs, how prompt was the collapse of this famous discovery, and how much remains to-day 
of the hopes that had been so lightly placed on a laboratory product, ill defined, untried, badly ad- 
ministered and which, in spite of the guarantee of the government of the German Empire, has 
produced, since it was foolishly transferred from the guinea pig cage to clinical medicine, nothing 
but deceptions and disaster Added to this comes the opinion of Professor Virchow in a paper 
read before the Medical Society of Berlin, in which he related the results of twenty one post mor- 
tems that he had performed of persons who had undergone Koch's treatment. Dr. Virchow 
declared that the injections increased the number of bacilli and made ihem emigrate into parts of the 
body that had not been affected before that, creating in this way a new disease. The Professor 
adds that the lymph invariably produces intense hyperemia, which endangers the patient's life. 
Up to the present time Dr Koch's treatment has not given a single case of recovery, not only of 
pulmonary tuberculosis, or even of lupus : on the other hand it has killed a relatively large 
number of persons ivho might have lived a long time. When we consider that even those who 
survive the treatment present extremely serious symptoms < intense fever, delirium, aibumenuria, 
hematuria, etc.,) we come to the conclusion that it will be better to wait until Dr. Koch can show 
the medical world undeniable cases of recovery before resorting to a therapeutical method which 
so far has only produced disaster. And until a case of authentic recovery can be shown I think it 
will be better to refrain from speaking of a remedy which all sensible persons have declined to use." 

A cure for the Bite of a Rattlesnake. 

A short time ago I read in the papers that an allopathic doctor in 
Australia had discovered a remedy for the bite of a rattlesnake, and the 
remedy was strychnine, to be injected by hypodermic syringes into the 
patient, supposed to have been bitten by the rattlesnake. 

If the patient died, who could tell whether he died from the bite of 
the rattlesnake or from the poisoning of the strychnine. This is a real 
specimen of allopathic practice of medicine. 

It is a debatable question in my mind whether the liqour traffic or the 
allopathic treatment of disease, is the most destructive of human life, and 
which produces the most misery in all parts of the civilized world. 
Who are the Regulars and Who are the Quacks ? 

The reader may think that I am writing at random and making state- 
ments of which I have no proof; but, besides my own observations in 
regard to the allopathic practice of medicine, I find there are other doc- 
tors who have made similar observations. In 1 890, S. E. Chapman, M. D., 
of California, published a pamphlet " Who are the Regulars?" Pre- 
vious to doing so he sent to the leading physicians in the principal cities 
of the United States the following letter : 

"Dear Doctor : I am a great sufferer from indigestion, and apply to 
you for a prescription. My appetite is usually good, but a few mouth- 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 353 

fuls cause a sense of fullness and repletion, as if I had really eaten a 
hearty meal. I cannot eat enough to keep me strong. There is more 
or less soreness in the region of the liver. Bowels usually constipated, 
with much flatulence of stomach and bowels. 

" I don't know but my kidneys are badly affected, for I have soreness 
and aching in that region, and I pass a good deal of red sand in my urine. 
Naturally I am of a lively temperament, fond of society, but am now 
often low spirited. One thing about my case strikes me as being 
peculiar : I am always wor^e from 4 to 5 or from 8 to 9 p. m. This I 
have noticed for years, and it is not imagination. 

I am a married man, aged 42, fair complexion, weight 135 lbs, height 
5 feet 6 inches, occupation, bookkeeper. 

Please send prescription by return mail, and find within post office 
order for $2.00. Very respectfully, Samuel Boyer, Box 26, 

Watsonville, Cal." 

The above letter was sent to ten of the most prominent allopathic 
physicians in the United States. I have not space to insert all of the 
prescriptions that were sent by each of these doctors for the $2.00 
received, but will state that they are as opposite as it is possible to make 
them, and all of a poisonous nature. I will render some of the names 
of these ingredients into plain English, and let the student judge for 
himself whether they are at all suitable for the cure of an inflamed 
stomach, which was diseased by dyspepsia in its worst form. 

Take of Compound Tine. Peruvian Bark. Extract Hyoscyamus, 

Gentian. Extract Colocynth. 

Diluted Hydrochloric Acid. Tincture Nux Vomica. Diluted Muriatic Acid. 

Pepsin. Compound Tincture of Peruvian Bark. 

Subnitrate of Bismuth. Lady Webster's Dinner Pill (these contain two 
Compound Glycyrrhize powder. grains of aloes each.) 

Socotrine Aloes. Salicin. 

Podophyllin. Sulphate Strychnia. 

Sulphate quinine. Sulphate quinine. 

Extract of Aloes. Compound Rhubarb pill. 

" '" Hyoscyamus. Podophyllin. 

Lactopeptine. Powdered Citrate of Potash. 

Pulverized Ipecacuanha. Powdered Phosphate of Soda. 
Extract Nux Vomica. 

The above poisonous drugs from the leading allopathic physicians of the United States were 
all intended for one special disease, which disease was well defined. 

Some of my readers may think that the letter was sent only to ignorant 
allopathic physicians or what are termed quacks, but to satisfy the 
student's mind on this point I insert the names of the 10 physicians that 
the letter was sent to. 



OUIS. 



H. I. Bowditch, Boston. Isaac N. Love, St. L< 

J. E- Darby, Cleveland. W. R. Cluness, Sacramento. 

R. Bartholow, Philadelphia. W. F. McNutt, San Francisco. 

Chas. T Parks, Chicago. S- O- L. Potter, San Francisco. 

Austin Flint, New York. J. T. Whitaker, Cincinnati. 

The same letter inclosing the $2.00 post office order was sent to ten 
leading homeopathic physicians in the United States, and they all pre- 
scribed one remedy, and that remedy was not of a poisonous or destructive 
nature, but was simply lycopodium, and they all agreed on that remedy 
for that disease, and no doubt if this experiment had been extended to 
Europe, Asia and Africa, or anywhere else where there are homeopathic 
physicians, they would have all prescribed the same remedy. 



354 ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 

I shall not attempt to decide whether lycopodium is the proper remedy 
for all the above-named symptoms in a sick patient. I leave that to the 
homeopathic physicians. I shall only touch upon the hannlessness of 
the remedy. Lycopodium has been used for ages as a menstruum for 
physicians to make up pills with, on account of its harmlessness, similar 
to what physicians often use wheaten flour as a menstruum to make up 
pills. And lycopodium comes as near what is termed " bread pills," 
without actually being made of wheaten flour, as anything can do. 

But what shall we say about the conglomeration of all the allopathic 
doctors' prescriptions sent to Samuel Boyer, either to kill or cure him ? 
They are as different and as various as it is possible to make them. 
One would think to read them that instead of being prescribed for one 
particular complaint, that they were almost a pharmacopoeia intended 
" for all the ills that flesh is heir to," and no two of them alike ; and 
yet the allopathic doctors harp about the science of medicine. Can 
there be a bigger farce ? At least the reader must admit that there is 
room for improvement. Is it not time that the government of the 
United States cried halt ! to this kind of doctoring. And like the 
British Parliament, in regard to compulsory vaccination in England, have 
an investigating committee appointed to see whether this quackery and 
destruction of human life shall continue as heretofore. 



All practising physicians, especially the allopaths, ought to bear in 
mind that there are certain conditions of the human system in which 
drugs have a much more marked, or injurious effect than at other times. 
To give an illustration all alchoholic beverages have a much more intoxi- 
cating effect when taken into an empty stomach than when the stomach 
is full. 

I might give hundreds of examples of drugs prescribed by doctors 
affecting people seriously, and often destroying life under certain weakened 
or diseased conditions of the human system. 

Sometimes the authorities are forced, although very reluctantly, to 
take notice of these poisonings after taking an allopath's prescription, 
but it is only when a patient dies, and there are marked symptoms of 
poisoning, as the real cause of death. There was a case of this kind 
published in the "New York Sun " of March 13th, 1898, which stated 
that Mrs. James L. Carhart of 365 Lexington Avenus, called on Dr. 
Trumbell W. Cleveland of 45 West 50th Street, on Saturday April 
10th, 1897, in regard to her own health. 

She had a child six weeks old with her ; the doctor asked her about 
the child's health ; she told him that it was quite well, only some 
slight bowel trouble. He advised her to use something to check it ; she 
protested and said that she did not believe in giving much medicine to 
children so young, but afterwards consented to let the child take it, pro- 
vided it contained no paregoric ; he gave the following prescription, 
which he said was very light, and to be sure that she takes it. 

Salol, xliii. gr. 

Bismuth, sub-carb, ii. drachms. 
Tr. Opii camphor, i. drachm. 
Aqua camphor A. D., iii. oz. 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 355 

It was to be given a teaspoonful every two hours, and she continued 
the medicine until Monday, April 12th, 1897, when she sent for the 
doctor as the child was breathing very heavily. When he came he gave 
her another prescription, which called for 1 1-2 drachms of resorcin in 
three ounces of water, the medicine to be given to the baby in teaspoonful 
doses every two hours, along with the other medicine. This would 
make the dose of resorcin 3 3-4 grains every two hours. 

Mrs. Carhart stated to the District Attorney that in about ten minutes 
after the first dose the baby gasped, the pupils of the eyes enlarged, and 
she turned from a pink color to white ; she vomited slightly, and there 
was noticeable the odor of carbolic acid, then she leaned back and 
seemed lifeless ; moaned, began to clutch at her mother's wrist, and 
soon was in a profuse perspiration, although her hands, face and feet 
were cold ; by this time there was a yellow exudation about the child's 
nose and mouth, her temples having turned black, and her mouth dark 
blue. 

The doctor came again and administered brandy and nitroglycerine 
into her arms and thighs by hypodermic injections, which caused the 
child to scream violently ; the mother interceded, but the doctor said, 
" It is heroic treatment, as brandy burns like fire under the skin." The 
child continued to breathe heavily, its breathing interrupted occasionally 
with a scream. Its skin turned yellowish green, mixed with blue, the 
body was heaving in and out, while her eyes were fixed and her hands 
useless. The child died on Tuesday evening. The newspapers state 
that the matter has been under investigation in the District Attorney's 
office for some ten months. The mother says that the child enjoyed 
good health previous to taking Dr. Cleveland's prescription, which was 
" very light." Dr. Cleveland called in Dr. Thompson in consultation, 
and the newspapers state that Dr. Thompson said in an undertone, 
"blunder this time." There was no autopsy, and the doctor gave a 
certificate of death. Mrs. Carhart has consulted a number of other 
doctors since the child's death, and showed them the prescriptions, and 
they assert that they were powerful enough to kill a man. 

It is but seldom that such instances of poisoning are permitted to get 
into print or in any way before the public ; they are generally kept quiet 
and the doctor gives a certificate of death, and that ends it. 

Of course there will be nothing done to Dr. Cleveland, and the whole 
matter will be forgotten. 

Had the child been treated by a "Christian Scientist," "Mental 
Healer," " Mesmerist," or a doctor who does not prescribe poisonous 
medicines, and had died a natural death without any of these symptoms 
of poisoning, the offender would have been taken out of bed at 12 o'clock 
at night, if necessary, as a common murderer ; the newspapers would have 
had a full account of it the next morning, and would have let their 
readers know that the child had died without being poisoned by an allo- 
pathic doctor, and the reporters would have given notices that all such 
disgraceful occurences must be stopped in 'fu tare and at any cost. 



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Persecution of Homeopathic and Botanic Practitioners. 

During the time bleeding was popular the doctors believed that the 
patient must be bled in all cases ; an instance is mentioned by Dr. Guy 
of London, in his book on Public Health, where he says one hundred 
and forty patients were all bled for one disease, and they all died. Dr. 
Samuel Hahnemann of Germany, old Samuel Thompson of this country, 
and their followers, suffered martyrdom, nearly one hundred years ago, 
for opposing these destructive methods in the treatment of diseases. 

There were a number of volumes published by Prof. Simpson, of 
Edinburg, Scotland, Dr. Woods, Dr. Hooker, and others at that time, 
opposing homeopathy and botanic practice of medicine, which volumes 
endeavored to prove that the botanic and homeopathic physicians did no 
good to their patients, but that the disease was constantly increasing until 
it was too late for the patient to be cured by their own destructive and 
poisonous medicines, and all kinds of persecutions were resorted to, trf 
break up or put a stop to these two innocent and harmless systems of 
the practice of medicine. 

At the time of the illness and death of Gen. Washington, a doctor who 
attempted to treat fever or any disease, without bleeding the patient 
several times, and not using calomel and jalap, emetic tartar, etc., and 
the patient died, he would be arrested at once and tried for manslaughter. 

We have an instance in the trial of Samuel Thompson, who was 
opposed to bleeding, and taking such large doses of poisonous medicine, 
which he termed " rats bane." 

For years and years the allopathic doctors have been combining and 
raising money to influence the legislature and have laws enacted to pre- 
vent any person from taking care of or prescribing for sick persons, 
without being a regular graduate, and of their school, and have been 
doing everything possible to prevent druggists from selling what is called 
proprietary or patent medicines, which are in almost all cases composed 
of ingredients that are harmless and not destructive to life or health. 

On Feb. 17th, 1898, a member of the Assembly of New York State 
introduced a bill requiring all patent medicines to have the names and 
quantities of the ingredients printed in plain English on a label pasted 
on the bottle, so that every person taking the medicine should know just 
what they are taking, and which would enable the persons to make up 
the medicine for themselves. How much better it would be to have a 
law enacted compelling every physician to have printed or written in 
plain English the names and quantities of each ingredient in the prescrip- 
tion, on a label and pasted on each bottle or package, so that the patient 
would know what he is taking, or his friends would know what they are 
giving him. 

Another member introduced a bill which provides, that if a proprie- 
tary medicine, which contains certain named poisons in any quantity 
whatever, no matter how small a quantity, the retailer or wholesaler 
should affix to the bottle or package, a poison label in red ink, specially 
naming the poison and prominently displaying a picture of a skull t and 
cross bones, together with the antidote for the particular poison so 
advertised. 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 357 

Such a bill can only have one of two objects. First, to drive the manu- 
facturers of such proprietary medicines out of the State, which medicines 
are never known to injure any person to any great extent,* or, Secondly, 
to blackmail the proprietors of patent medicines, in order to rake money 
to have the bill killed, either in the Assembly or committee rooms. 

The allopathic physicians are trying to have the manufacture of patent 
medicines stopped, and no druggist permitted to sell anything without a 
prescription from a physician ; they are also trying to have laws enacted 
to close up all dispensaries or at least to make them so uncomfortable for 
people who visit them, that they will deem themselves more disgraced 
than if they were paupers. 

Such bills as the above are introduced in State Assemblies, year after 
year, at the instigation of the allopathic physicians. 

How much more sensible it would be to have a law enacted that all 
prescriptions sent out of drug stores should be labeled "poison " in red 
ink, and also that there should be displayed on the label a skull and 
cross bones, so that people would become more cautious when taking such 
prescriptions. 

A great many sensible people think that physicians have no right to 
doctor unless they use very dangerous and destructive medicines similar 
to the prescription of Dr. Cleveland, and that in using them he must be 
equally as skillful as expert performers in theatres who place a man standing 
with his arms extended and the expert using long knives and so throwing 
them that they pin him to the board so he cannot move ; or like a 
man who is a good marksman, shooting a lighted cigar from a man's 
mouth, or a small ball from his head, and in such actions if the ball or 
knife went an inch crooked it would be almost instant death. 

But after all, times are changing, and it is a good indication that the 
District Attorney is wakening up, and paying some attention to such 
cases as the death of Mrs. Carhart's child, even if it is a year after the 
death occured, If in the future the attention of the District Attorney 
should be called to all such cases as these, which occur almost daily, he 
will be kept so busy attending to cases of persons who die of violent 
deaths after taking prescriptions, that he will not have time for arresting 
and trying people who treat patients who afterwards die a natutal death. 

I have given Dr. Draper a number of cases that would make splendid 
subjects for a farce or comic opera, and could give thousands of other 

* The manufacturers or proprietors of medicines have to be doubly careful in regard to the 
ingredients, as they are awlays aware that the person taking such medicines are very careless as 
regards the quantity to be taken. If any person dies after taking even a large dose of those medi- 
nines. no matter of what disease, the proprietor of such medicine would be liable to be instantly 
arrested and when all the doctors in the state would combine to have him severely punished, both 
by fine and imprisonment. 

To give an instance of how careless some people are in taking medicines, I will mention a case 
which came under my observation in England. 

A cousin of mine who kept a drug store in Leeds, sold a man a box of pills to act on th,e 
bowels, with directions to only take one pill each night, but that same night he took the whole box 
at one time. The effect was fearful, but not fatal. 

Had the man been taken seriously ill, or had he died it would have caused my cousin serious 
trouble and expense, if not imprisonment. So in regard to any person getting up apatent medicine, 
if any one is injured by it, even by taking a whole bottle at a time (when directions are a teaspoon- 
ful a day,) and the patient dies, the manufacturer of such medicine would get into serious trouble, 
and it would completely destroy the sale of his medicines afterwards. 



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cases that have come under my notice, if he could dispel from the minds 
of his audience that they were real tragedies. 

I had intended devoting some part of this book to " Medical 
Astrology," but I find I have not space, but anyone wishing to know 
something of this science can read the last 12 pages of this book. 



THE OBJECTIONS TO THE SCIENCE OF ASTROLOGY 

ANSWERED. 

1 . The Folly and Knavery of its Professors. 

2. The Uncertainty of the Science itself as manifested by the 
frequent failure of Predictions. 

3. The certainty that Astrology must be false, because it cannot be 
true, and therefore no man of learning and sense would believe in it. 

The first objection contains more truth than real weight or value. 
Formerly when the science was but little known or understood there 
were great numbers of impostors, pretending to practice it, but since the 
people have commenced to investigate Astrology for themselves, these 
pretenders are gradually going out of that kind of business. Therefore 
that objection is gradually disappearing, and after a time it will be 
entirely gone. The faculty of possessing foreknowledge is so predominant 
in our nature, that the desire to gratify it, when not properly trained or 
developed, causes it. to become reallv a temptation, and impostors are 
always ready to profit by it where they can. Wise men who studied the 
science, although convinced of its truth, were fully aware of its difficul- 
ties, and careful how they committed themselves. Fools were not so 
scrupulous, and impostors thought of nothing but how they could make 
the most of it. At length things came to such a pass that, as Gasendus 
remarked, some would "scarcely cut their hair or pare their nails without 
consulting the Almanac to see what sign the Moon was in." It may 
not be improper to give a hint relative to impostors of the present day 
in this city, who charge money for telling that to others, which they do 
not believe themselves, whose principle aim is to make money out of a 
science they do not understand, and to laugh at the public while they 
are robbing them. Wretches like these are infinitely more despicable than 
the greatest blockhead on earth, who is sincere. Astrology, however, 
must stand or fall by its own merits or demerits and not by those of its 
professors. Had the study of Chemistry been abandoned because a set 
of fools, urged on by knaves, ruined themselves in the pursuit of the univer- 
sal Menstruum or Potable Gold, the world would have been deprived 
of a most useful Science. 

The second objection, that is, " The Uncertainty of the Science itself 
as manifested by the frequent failure of Predictions," seems more plaus- 
ible, but it is equally applicable to other branches of knowledge, of which 
the truth is not even disputed. We are, for instance, as little acquainted 
with the true operations of Celestial Affinities, and the Electric Phenom- 
ena of the Planetary Orbs as with the Pathology of the human body, 
and probably much less, as we have fewer opportunities of investigating 
them ; and I would ask not only the medical man, but any man who 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 359 

has studied nature, whether in the event of a person receiving a wound 
in the hand or foot, he would require the physician to decide as to it 
being succeeded by Tetanus. A question like this could only proceed 
from extreme ignorance, and would be treated as such. Not one in ten 
wounds, nor do I believe one in a hundred, occasions lock-jaw, and yet 
the identity of Traumatic Tetanus is as perfect as any other disease in 
Nosology. 

The partial failures of Astrologers necessarily presuppose partial suc- 
cesses. If Astrologers always failed in their predictions, the evidence 
against Astrology would be strongly presumptive, though not absolutely 
conclusive, in as much as the properties of matter do not result from 
man's knowledge of them, but pervades all matter, inherently, prior to 
man's existence, and are only yet ascertained to a very limited extent. 
When attempts are made to parallel Astrology with many other sciences, 
its magnitude and complexity appear so immensely overwhelming,, that the 
wonder turns not upon the failure of its professors, but rather upon their 
frequent successes. 

To those who make the third objection, that is, " The certainty that 
Astrology must be false, because it cannot be true, and therefore no man 
of learning and sense would believe in it," I would recommend pati- 
ence, with the assurance that should they by any accident become men 
of LEARNING and SENSE themselves, they will probably change their 
opinions. Besides, it is but right to inform them, that men of sense 
often conceal their knowledge and belief from a conviction that Fools 

ARE TOO NUMEROUS AND TOO FORMIDABLE A BODY TO BE TAMPERED WITH. 

A little investigation, however, will enable them to discover that a number 
of years back, before the spirit of research had been almost subdued by 
prejudice, most men of acknowledged ability did BELIEVE IN IT. 
Sir Isaac Newton, and also the great and ingenious Kepler,* whose 
astronomical discoveries and mental acuteness have never yet been sur- 
passed ; and the profound and intelligent Locke, whose indefatigable 
spirit of research, may justly shame the brightest genius of the present 
age, were all well convinced of the truth of Astrology, and no: ashamed 
to acknowledge it. Other names such as Dryden, Richelieu, f etc., 
of equal celebrity, might be quoted, but no such authority is required to 
sanction truth, and the expedient is seldom resorted to except with a 
view to blind the ignorant and give currency to prejudice. 

As every age brings improvement, " the Society for the Diffusion or 
Useful Knowledge" seem to have hit upon a plan of improving this 
expedient, by circulating their own names to serve for authorities, 
instead of the names of their Predecessors. I forget who it was that 
prescribed a list of great men with little minds, as a cure for Hypochon- 
driasis, supposing it must operate upon the Nerves through the medium 
of the visible muscles The idea was ingenious, and really when I 
peruse the "Diffusion" and compare the names on its covers with the 
nonsense in its pages, I am tempted to believe we are in possession of 
the very desideratum alluded to. Such a stale, commonplace farrago 

* See page 21. t See page 22. 



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of physical absurdities was never before let loose upon the uninformed 
mass of mankind. 

I wish they had given their recipe for making a Universe. That 
for putting the Planets in motion when they are made is truly admirable. 
The feat, it appears, is performed by a "push given to them at first, and 
forcing them onward at the same time that they are drawn toward a 
certain point," and again we find that this attractive force which draws 
them toward a certain point, is " the same influence or power that 
makes a stone fall to the ground." Now of all the pushes I have ever 
observed, the original impulse was but momentary, and although the 
effect must have remained through all eternity, had there been no ob- 
struction, yet where it is, it must be gradually annihilated. A stone 
thrown forward, even were there no atmospherical resistance, must pro- 
ceed in a parabolic curve, the effect of two conflicting forces, viz : — that 
of the first impulse, and the impeding power of gravitation; but the 
former being but temporary, and the latter perpetual, the former would 
be gradually exausted by the latter, and the stone would in a given time 
remain relatively motionless upon the earth's surface. All that now 
remains to be ascertained, is the nature of the Society's "Push." Is it 
like other pushes likely to be overcome by a contrary impulse and if it 
be, by what means does it still retain its power unimpaired by resist- 
ance, undiminished by gravitation ? not to mention the variations at the 
apsides which can neither be caused by primitive impulse, or uniform 
gravitation. This to me would be " Useful Knowledge," and I should 
be happy at seeing it " diffused " as soon as possible. I must however, 
caution them that T am not one of those "bipeds" that says "pretty 
poll, or polly wants a cracker," simply because I hear some one else say 
so, nor am I to be amused by a name or an authority, whether of New- 
ton or any one else. I may be wrong in applying to the Society for a 
reason of their own, which they have not to give, but I mean to have a 
reason, or the fact itself, if it is one, or nothing. Did it ever occur to 
those wiseacres, that every distinct body in nature, has like themselves, 
a will of its own, differing only from theirs, in being directed to much 
wiser purposes! Could they never find out that the laws of nature are 
the wills of nature, exercised for the mutual benefit and preservation of 
all its component parts, collectively and individually? could they once 
be made to comprehend this obvious truth it would assist them through 
many of their difficulties, and among other things, teach them to account 
for the "falling of a Stone, a phenomena which seems to puzzle them 
extremely ; and but for the experience they have to the contrary, " It 
is," they say, " quite conceivable that a stone might stand still in the 
air or fly upwards, or in any other direction ; and there would be 
nothing at all absurd, contradictory, inconceivable or impossible in either 
of these suppositions, as there would be in supposing the stone equal to 
half itself, or falling and rising at once," etc. Now, really, how one 
positive absurdity can be more "conceivable" than another, is to me 
" inconceivable," but this is the inevitable consequence when lawyers 
and statesmen set themselves up for astronomers, astrologers or philoso- 
phers. Art is their proper study. They are ignorant of nature, and 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 36 1 

should never meddle with her affairs. Every attentive observer perceives 
that in all bodies, whether organized or not, each part or member is 
interested, and indefatigable in contributing to the preservation of the 
whole ; that were it not the judicious tendency of all substances towards 
each other, so as to form one common centre of gravity, this globe would 
instantly be shattered to pieces ; and that to prevent this catastrophe, a 
stone or any other substance left at liberty, rushes towards the centre, or 
as it is vulgarly termed, " falls to the ground. " 

We come now to the choicest morsel of the whole, namely, their 
"Astrological aphorisms," the major part of which will be found in a 
work of theirs, called " Companion to the Almanac," containing a 
choice collection of Apophthegms, a smart philippic or two against 
"Moon and Star Men" and " The Nonsense of Astrology," and an 
oblique hint at the means by which they acquired all this knowledge, 
which it seems was through having ''intelligence and good sense, as lords 
of their ascendants." 

At page 23, we are told, "that the revolution of the heavenly bodies 
produces the appearances of the seasons and nothing more." At page 
24, the " Seasons " are left to shift for themselves, and the " Celestial 
Bodies exert no other influence than that of gravitation upon the 
earth ; " and at page 27, they are all, except one, turned out of office, 
in consequence of the discovery, that " being all much more remote from 
the earth than the Moon, they have NO INFLUENCE WHATEVER 
upon the changes of the Seasons, or upon anything that in any way affects 
the comfort or the ordinary pursuits of mankind. " If any one can rec- 
oncile this discordant trash, I should be happy to find myself in the list 
of his acquaintances. Where were " Intelligence and Good Sense " 
that they did not happen to be "Lords of the Ascendant" upon this 
occasion ? I fear we have lost even the Sun in the conflict. He is 
much more remote from the earth than the Moon," being 400 times 
her distance — he is one of the OUTS. 

I need not insult the reader's understanding by any comment, but 
pass onward, or rather backward to the story of their conversion, which 
the reader may find at page 21, and as this is a very curious document, 
I shall insert the passage, verbatim. 

" That the different Phases of the Moon have SOME connection with 
changes in the atmosphere is an opinion so UNIVERSAL and 
POPULAR, as to be on THAT ACCOUNT ALONE entitled to 
attention. No observation is more general, and on no occasion perhaps 
is the almanac so frequently consulted as in forming conjectures upon 
the state of the weather, the common remark goes no further than the 
fact that changes from wet to dry, and from dry to wet, happen at the 
changes of the Moon ; when to this result of universal experience we 
add the philosophical reasons for the existence of Tides in the Aerial 
Ocean, we cannot doubt that such a connection exists, and that the 
Moon exerts considerable influence upon the currents of the air accord- 
ing to her position. The subject, however, is involved in GREAT 
OBSCURITY, and is one which can only be elucidated by long and 
careful observation." (See page 269.) 



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This is what I have been endeavoring to prove and elucidate in this 
book, as the foundation of the science of Astrology, or what the Society 
calls the "Nonsense of Astrology," and when we reflect that "The 
Society" themselves, like the man who had been talking prose all his life 
and did not know it, have been Astrologers all the time, without having 
the wit to discover it, the thing seems scarcely credible : but we find 
the whole is justly attributed to that noted Enchantress, " UNIVERSAL 
AND POPULAR OPINION," who with all the persevering malignity 
of a fairy, seems never to have quitted those poor victims of her delu- 
sions one moment from that of their birth to the present hour. 'Twas 
she, who in disguise of the scholastic dogmas, and popular prejudices, 
first taught them to deny, without having a single fact to disprove the 
truth of Astrology, and then in the garb of " Universal and Popular 
Opinion," compelled them to believe in it, leaving them to extricate 
themselves from the horns of the dilemma as well as they could. In 
addition to these calamities, they are, through some fatality, always 
in the wrong, like all other persons who meddle with things they know 
nothing about, even when they happen to take the right side of a 
question. The weather does not change with the Moon, but four or 
five days before it, and the period is the longer the nearer the Moon is 
to the Apogee. That the subject is "involved in great obscurity" is 
owing to meddlesome persons like themselves, who are like the tailless 
fox in the fable, continually exerting themselves to persuade others into 
their own condition. It is strange they cannot be persuaded to stick to 
their lasts, and remain within the very limited sphere for which nature 
designed them. Really, men like those who are merely the echoes of 
others opinions, without possessing one original idea of their own, whose 
minds are so superficial and unreflecting as not only to be incapable of 
perceiving Astrological truths, but even the nature and tendency of their 
own ideas — men like those, should be put under some kind of surveil- 
lance, and not allowed to go about filling their own empty phials with 
other men's compositions, which they have not the skill to analyze, and 
forcing their contents, dregs and all, down the throats of every one they 
meet. If they must become teachers of Astrology, (though of this I do 
not see either the necessity or the possibility,) they should become 
Wards in Chancery, and pursue their studies under proper tutors pro- 
vided for them. I think, however, they had better remain as they are, 
or Tather as they were before they became "Moon and Star Men." 
Pikes like these should remain at home in their native rivers, and not 
venture to sea. They may shine at the Bar or in the Senate, where 
great pretensions and small intellect are much oftener "Lords of the 
Ascendant " than " Intelligence and good Sense," and where, if we 
may credit Lord Chesterfield, a knowledge of any subject in question, is 
no more essential than a knowledge of " Celtic or Sclavonian" and 
where he boasted of delivering, with unbounded applause, a lecture on 
Astronomy, while at the same time he was an "utter stranger" to 
that Science. In their own spheres they may be Giants, but I am really 
serious when I assure them they are mere Pigmies in Astrology. 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 363 

THE PLANET NEPTUNE 

Persons Described by Neptune. 

There is less known of the influence of the planet Neptune, in 
describing the appearance of the native, than any of the other planets, 
except the asteroids. 

The personal description of Neptune in the twelve signs comes very 
near a combination between the planet Uranus and Venus, and any one 
reading the description in the twelve signs of the Zodiac of both these 
planets and combining them in his mind, will come very near the personal 
description of a Neptune person. Also, if the student reads the conjunc- 
tions, squares, oppositions, sextiles and trines of Uranus and Venus, and 
combines the two in his mind, he will have a very good description, 
physically, mentally and morally, of the (^ , □, £ , % and A of 
Neptune to all the other planets. 

A Neptune person is generally near or above the medium height, 
inclined to be full built rather than slender, slightly dark complexion, 
with brown or dark brown hair, rather full face, broad high forehead, 
quick eyes, rather prominent nose, and of a somewhat commanding 
appearance ; they very often look older than they are ; a Uranus person 
looks older than they are, but a Venus person generally looks younger. 

Of color Neptune governs a much darker blue than Venus. 

The influence of Neptune in a horoscope is, in some cases, very 
marked, especially if it is in the ascendant, the loth or the 7th house; 
it is most evil in these houses. In the 7th house it causes very unhappy 
marriages, unless the Sun in a woman's and the Moon in a man's 
horoscope, makes a good aspect of Venus or Jupiter for marriage. 

Neptune's evil directions or transits tell with a vengeance, and if it 
happens to be transiting over, or in evil aspect to two or three planets in 
angles, the native feels it in a marked degree, especially if those planets 
are superior planets, and in fixed signs. Some authors intimate that 
Neptune is more evil in its transits or directions than either Saturn, Mars 
or Uranus, as it is so long in transiting or going over any particular part 
of the horoscope. Neptune travels a little more than 2 degrees and 14 
minutes a year; therefore, any person having the Moon 16 degrees, the 
Sun 20 degrees in any sign, and Saturn, Mars or Uranus 18 degrees in 
the opposite sign, and Neptune coming in evil aspect to those positions, 
the evil inflence will be felt for four or five years. The sickness caused 
by Neptune is chiefly of a nervous tendency and of a depressive nature. 

Neptune in the Twelve Houses. 

Neptune in the 1st house gives a well made person, a rather full face 
and forehead, eyes generally a dark blue, full and bright, heavy eyebrows, 
much hair, clear complexion, short and thick neck In disposition they 
are void of fear, daring, and of a restless nature; practical, ingenious, 
intuitive, jealous of those they love, fond of dress and display, worldly 
wise, and it in £ £ , given to criticising and being criticised. Males 
who have Neptune in the ascendant are said to be effeminate and debili- 
tated; if Neptune be afflicted, they are given to dissolute habits. 



364 ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 

f in the 2D. — Wastes his wealth through profligacy ; and his finances 
are uncertain. 

f in the 3D. — Long residence in a place, and unexpected removals. 

f in the ^th. — Unfortunate in home affairs and property. 

f in the 5TH. — Speculations turnout " air castles," and his pleasures 
and associates are of a low order ; the native's children are liable to 
watery diseases and a poor constitution. If in )£ in the 5th, he has a 
craving for drink, which leads to dissolute vices and depraved habits. 

f in the 6th.— Causes the native to be inclined to study medicine, 
but is not fortunate with servants, small animals, keeping boarding-house. 

f in the 7th. — The marriage partner is a most undesirable one, and 
events inimical to marital felicity are apt to suddenly occur. 

f in the 8th. — Denotes a peculiar death; if Neptune is afflicted, 
causes a short illness, watery in character, or may be drowned. 

f in the 9TH. — Peculiar religious views; fond of occultism, mes- 
merism, astrology, and kindred sciences. 

f in the ioth. — Great success, with sudden reverses of fortune. 

f in the iith. — Low acquaintances and dissolute friends. 

f in the 12th. — Danger of imprisonment, or confinement of some 
kind ; shrewd and dangerous enemies. 

The Aspects of Neptune. 

f in good aspect J£t. — Fond of making explorations, interested in 
spiritualism, or an investigator of occult science. 

f in good aspect ^ . — Speculation, financial success, good hearted. 

f in good aspect IX . — Causes the native to meet with unexpected 
good fortune by speculation, inventions, etc. 

f afflicting 2C . — Denotes that the native will live upon charity at 
some period in life, but afterwards become wealthy. 

f in good aspect $ . — Fond of the study of palmistry, physiognomy, 
also ability for physician or surgeon. 

* in evil aspect $ . — Liability to accidents and changes. 

f in evil aspect ? . — In a male's nativity it gives large animal pro- 
pensities, low associations, also disappointment in courtship or marriage. 
With females, they are liable to lose their virtue early in life, or be 
untrue to their marriage vows, young females are liable to assault, etc. 

f in good aspect $ . — Makes the native refined, fond of paintings 
and music, and of the occult 

f in good aspect £. — Quick, impressional, practical, ingenious, of 
q;ood judgment, intuitive and shrewd, very sensitive, and a good judge 
of human nature. 

f in evil aspect £ . — Makes a clever deceiver, shrewd, and a good 
judge of human nature, glibness of tongue. Tt gives imaginative complaint: 
in the head, excitement, fear, hysteria, nervousness, and in some cases 
pretended ailments. It also makes pretenders, and if Uranus afflict 
Neptune, bogus astrologers and clairvoyants. 

f in A or % ~J). — Fond of travel, and desirous of change, will 
take unexpected journeys and travel to foreign parts. 



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THE HOROSCOPES OF PRESIDENT CLEVELAND 

AND OF 

EX-PRESIDENT HARRISON. 

Some time in the beginning of October, 1888, a reporter of "The 
New York World " was sent to nearly all the Astrologers and Clairvoy- 
ants in New York City to try and find out what they had to say about 
the then-coming Presidential election. He was also sent to consult me, 
but instead of asking my opinion on the Presidential election, he had me 
cast his own horoscope. When I had finished reading it, he said he 
would like to ask me one question, which was that he had bet consid- 
erable money that Mr. Cleveland would be elected ; should he win his 
money ? I showed him the horoscope of Mr. Cleveland, and told him 
that Cleveland would be defeated in the coming election ; that near the 
end of October, Cleveland would have a very evil aspect in his horoscope, 
which would give him a black eye, and would prevent his election. 

Just about the above-mentioned time, Lord Sackville West, British 
Minister to Washington, wrote a letter to an Englishman out West, 
advising all Englishmen to vote for Cleveland, as his election would 
benefit Fngland. This was one of the means of Mr. Cleveland's not 
being elected in 1888. On account of Lord Sackville West's indiscre- 
tion he got his walking papers to go home. 

The above was published in "The New York Sunday World" 
on the 14th of October, 1888. The reporter also published in the 
same paper that I charged him five dollars for reading his horoscope, 
but I was the only one of the Astrologers in New York who gave him 
anything for his money. That was rough on the other Astrologers, but 
I suppose the reason he made that statement was because they did not 
charge him enough for reading his horoscope.* I advised him to hedge 
on his Cleveland election bets, if he did not wislt to lose all his money. 

On the 10th of July, 1892, appeared the following horoscopes of 
President Cleveland and ex-President Harrison, in the " New York 
Sunday Journal." I reprint them verbatim. At the end of the horo- 
scopes I shall make a few further remarks. 



* Charles A. Dana, in "The New York Sun," advises his readers never to pay an Astrologer 
more than twenty-five cents for casting and reading a horoscope. Mr. Dana is a great stickler for 
personal freedom of the buyer and seller, not only of labor but of every kind of product. He 
always insists in labor strikes that if there are men or women willing to do the work at a lower 
wage, that the strikers have no business to interfere; that every one should be left free to ask what 
he deems proper for any specific work, and the buyer to offer what he deems proper. In this case 
it is not the Astrologers who are on a strike for higher wages, but what is termed a "lockout.' , 
But if Mr. Dana is determined to fix the fee of Astrologers at twenty-five cents, why not fix it for 
all other professional services? Why does he not tell his readers not to pay more than twenty-five 
cents to a lawyer for pleading a case in court, nor more than twenty-five cents to a minister for 
preaching a sermon on Sunday, nor more than twenty-five cents to a doctor for a professional visit 
to a patient? Why pin all Astrologers down to twenty-five cents, unless he brings all other pro- 
fessions down to the same level? 

Mr. Dana may say he does not believe in Astrology, yet there are people just as wise as he 
who do believe in it, and consider that an Astrological reading is worth as much as the fee given 
to a lawyer or a doctor. 



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ELEMENTS OF ASTROSOGY. 



HOROSCOPE OF GROVER CLEVELAND. 

From "The New York Sunday Morning Journal," July 10, 1892. 

In times like these, when every one is excited over the possibilities of 
the Presidential ^lection, even the most extraneous means may be used 
to throw light upon the uncertainty. In olden times the Court Astrol- 
oger was the oracle, and such an oracle must be sadly needed at Wash- 
ington. 

The Astrologer of to-day is not like his predecessor. He is an 
ordinary looking man, with his books and mathematical tables abcut 
him ; in a matter-of-fact, business-like way he talks of the future with 
the ease of a teacher. The gentleman who was consulted for the infor- 
mation here given would not be considered, out of his office, as differing 
in any wav from his neighbors. A man about sixty, gray, and with a 
pleasant face and a general appearance of honesty, both in actions and 
conversation. He has devoted forty years of his life to the study, and 
seems to be a devout believer in all that he says. 

He had the charts all prepared, and from their appearance must have 
spent soms time in studying them ; his remarks were to the point, and 
seemed to be the result of deep thought. He was emphatic in his 
statements regarding the chances of the two candidates, . considered 
fro^v the Astrologer's point of view, and should he be correct, Mr. 
Cleveland might take much comfort this summer if he realized the good 
times ahead for him. 

The Professor studied the following chart for a while and then said ; 



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ytyft 



"Grover Cleveland was born March 18, 1837. His biographies do 
not mention the time of day, but after a careful examination I am con- 
vinced that the hour was about 11:30 \. m. He is described by the 



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Moon in Leo, that orb being at that time afflicted by an evil aspect of 
the planet Saturn." 

The Professor here took down one of his books and read as follows : 

" The Moon in Leo describes a person about the middle height, well 
proportioned, strong, large-boned, sanguine-complexioned, brown hair, 
large, prominent eyes, and full face, a lofty, proud, aspiring person, very 
ambitious, and desiring to rule." 

The Professor sat back in his chair and looked as though that settled 
the truth of the matter effectually, and then he went on : 

" Mr. Cleveland has four planets in the sign of Pisces, and no doubt 
they are near the mid-heaven; any person with so many planets in one 
sign, and in conjunction, is certain to rise and become noted, unless these 
planets are very much afflicted. He has also the planets Jupiter and 
Mars in conjunction in the second house — the house of money. This 
would indicate that he would become, quite well to do, though Mars 
there would make money pass through his hands very easily when he was 
young. 

"The Moon in the second house in evil aspect to the planet Saturn 
shows that in early life he had many misfortunes, and there was danger 
even of disgrace. 

" Mr. Cleveland is of good constitution, and likely to live to a good 
age ; although he will have several evil influences commence about May, 
1895, which will last until the middle of October, 1896. That will be 
a critical period for him to live through. Should he pass that influence 
safely there is no serious danger for many years. 

" Marriage in Mr. Cleveland's nativity is surrounded by many possi- 
bilities ; especially was it so in his early life, and difficulties and anxieties 
from the opposite sex were not the least of his troubles. Mrs. Cleveland 
is described in his nativity by the planet Mercury; the aspect indicating 
marriage in Mr. Cleveland's horoscope is not of the best, except for 
honor and advancement. Mercury neai the mid-heaven indicates the 
popularity of that estimable lady. 

" The influences in operation in Mr. Cleveland's nativity this fall are 
remarkably good ; exactly the reverse of those that hampered him in 
1888. I am satisfied that he will be elected." 



HOROSCOPE OF BENJAMIN HARRISON. 

"In Mr. Harrison's biographies the date of birth given is August 20, 
1833. The hour is lacking, but after studying the positions of the 
planets on that day, I am convinced that he was born about 4 a. m. This 
would indicate that the Sun was the preponderating planet in his horo- 
scope. The Sun in Leo gives the following : 

Here the Professor again read : 

" The Sun in Leo gives a strong, well-proportioned, and very portly 
person ; sanguine complexioned, light brown or yellowish hair, full face, 
and large, prominent eyes. There is generally a mark or scar on the 
face. A very just, upright, and honorable man, who scorns to do any 



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CHART OF THE HEAVENS AT PRESIDENT HARRISON^ BIRTH. 

meanness ; punctual, faithful to his friends, and magnanimous to his ene- 
mies ; in short, a right royal disposition ; a very ambitious man withal, 
fond of rule and authority, and given to war, domination and conquest." 

The Professor put the book down, and taking up the chart, studied 
it attentively for some time, and then proceeded : 

" The reason of Mr. Harrison's rise to prominence is the position 
of the planet Jupiter in the mid-heaven of his horoscope, in close 
good aspect to Mercury ; the latter planet is rising in great dignity. 
Strange as it may appear, there are very few persons born with Jupiter 
in their mid-heaven. Among these few, Queen Victoria, the Duke of 
Wellington, and W. W. Astor are numbered. A person having this 
excellent configuration of the heavens, will in some part of his life rise 
to prominence and remain prominent. 

4< A person born with Saturn in that part of the horoscope may rise 
in life after hard work, but is sure to fall. For instance, the two Bona- 
partes, Gen. McClellan, and ex-President Buchanan are remarkable illus- 
trations. It may be interesting to know that Worsdale, a very eminent 
Astrologer of England in the last centurv, cast the horoscopes of 
Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington eleven years before 
the battle of Waterloo, and predicted that if ever these generals met 
upon the field of battle Wellington would conquer. 

But to the matter in hand. In President Harrison's horoscope the 
planets Saturn and Mars in the house of money would indicate that he 
had many hard struggles with povertv in his early years. Venus in the 
house of friends would bring him influential friendships, many of them 
of the gentler sex. Mercury rising in the ascendant, and in good aspect 
to Jupiter and the Moon, would give him remarkable intellect, far above 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 369 

the average. When he thoroughly considers a subject he will rarely 
make a mistake. 

" The health and length of life of the President are influenced by the 
Sun rising in his horoscope. He will live to a good age, and enjoy better 
health than in his early years. A person indicated by the Sun, as he is, 
especially when it is so strong, is generally set in his ways and determined 
to control, making a poor politician. 

" The Moon making an aspect of Jupiter in the mid-heaven, would 
indicate that marriage would be a benefit to Mr. Harrison ; he would 
receive advancement and assistance from the step. He will get along in 
a rather harmonious manner in married life; the only unpleasantness I 
see would be over the question of who should rule. 

"At the nomination of President Harrison in ] 888 it so happened 
that he had a number of very good influences in operation. in his horo- 
scope, and at the same time Cleveland had several very evil ones, par- 
ticularly in October of that year, about the time when Sackville West 
wrote the letter advising the Englishmen how to vote. 

"At the time of the nomination of President Harrison this year, I find 
that the Moon was rising, just leaving an opposition of the Sun, and in 
close square to Saturn in the eleventh, the house of friends. All these 
influences indicate that when election time comes the President will have 
been sold out by his friends. I cannot see how he can possibly be 
elected, unless a miracle occurs. If he should be elected it would bring 
trouble to the country. 

" In addition, the President will have, commencing about the 20th of 
September of this year, and lasting till after election, several very evil 
influences, and something will occur about that time which will seriously 
interfere with his prospects. 

" Of the two men, President Harrison has the more fortunate horo- 
scope, yet on account of the evil influences I have mentioned, and the 
fact that Grover Cleveland will have some exceptionally good influences 
in his horoscope this fall, among which will be Jupiter in his mid-heaven 
in exact trine to the Moon, I am satisfied that Grover Cleveland will be 
elected to the Presidency. 

" It is seldom I meet with two nativities that are so strong where 
the parties are opposed to each other, therefore I expect it to be an ex- 
citing election." 

A FEW FURTHER REMARKS ON THE HOROSCOPE OF EX-PRESIDENT 

HARRISON. 

The evil planetary influences in ex-President Harrison's nativity in 
September and October, 1892, had a marked effect, not only in defeating 
him for a second term, but they also brought misfortune in the loss of 
his wife. At the time I calculated Mr. Harrison's horoscope fc-r the 
"Sunday Morning Journal," I expected that there would be a death in 
his family before the election, but was afraid to mention it, because the 
aspect might have brought some other affliction. It is sometimes very 
difficult to tell which way the planetarv influence will affect a person. 

Before the summer of 1806 Mr. Harrison will have a number of evil 



37° ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 

planetary influences in his horoscope, which will seriously interfere with 
his prospects for being nominated a third time, and may also seriously 
affect his health. 

In November and December, 1895, he will have almost as evil an 
aspect as he had when he buried his wife, his own health will be seri- 
ously affected, and possibly another death may occur in his family. 
February and March, 1896, will bring other evil influences of a similar 
nature, but in July, 1896, Jupiter will come to his ascendant, which is 
a very fortunate aspect, yet he will have an evil aspect of Uranus to its 
own place at the same time, which I think will spoil his prospects for 
renomination, and the National Convention may act as treacherously as 
it did to James G. Blaine in 1892. Still, should he get the nomination 
there will be a fair chance of his being elected, and should they nomi- 
nate Grover Cleveland for a third term, Mr. Harrison would have a 
walk-over. 

Commencing January 1, 1897, and continuing to the 1st of Decem- 
ber, Mr. Harrison will have one of the worst aspects he has had since 
he was seven years of age, and the chances of his living over that time 
are very doubtful ; still, as his "giver of life " is so strong, there may be 
a slight prospect of his surviving over 1897. If so, there will be no 
serious danger of his death until he is about seventy-two or seventy-three 
years old. Should he possibly be elected President in 1896^ it will be 
just as evil for the United States as was the election of Mr. Cleveland 
in 1892. 

A FEW FURTHER REMARKS ON THE HOROSCOPE OF PRESIDENT 
CLEVELAND. 

For the next few years Mr. Cleveland will have some very evil influ- 
ences, much worse than those he had in July, August, and September of 
this year, and they will affect his health in a more marked degree. 

Tt was certainly a serious mistake in the President calling Congress 
together on the Aug. 7th, 1893, during the time that he had such evil 
influences in his nativity ; the aspects were evil on the day they met, and 
Congress will be about as submissive, and as much inclined to transact 
business for the good of the country, as the Long Parliament of England, 
which finally succeeded in beheading Charles I. 

Commencing about the 5th of October, 1893, the influences slightly 
improve in Mr. Cleveland's horoscope, and continue more favorable 
until about the 28th of November, when he will have another evil 
aspect, which will affect his health, and bring him a world of trouble 
connected with Government affairs, which will continue to the 15th of 
December ; afterwards things look a little more encouraging, and his 
health improves until February 1st. During February and March he 
v/ill be very much perplexed in Government affairs; things throughout 
the country will look gloomy ; his health will be poor, and Congress and 
he will be at loggerheads. After April 1st until the middle of Novem- 
ber things will go much smoother, with a much brighter propect through- 
out the country. His health ought to be quite good, but from Nov. 
15, 1894, and continuing until Nov. 15, 1896, he will have some very 



EIFMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 37 I 

Serious aspects affecting his nativity, very much worse than anything he 
has had for many years. The most marked evil times will be from 
Nov. 1st, 1894, to March 20th, 1895. His health will be very poor, 
and there is great danger that he will be afflicted with rheumatism and 
dropsy, and heart difficulty setting in. May, 1895, will also be an evil 
month ; then again from the middle of September to November 10th, 
1895, and during January, February, March, and April, 1896, and 
again during September and October, 1896, will all be unusually evil 
periods. 

I shall think Mr. Cleveland a very fortunate man if he lives through 
these evil influences. 

Except from April 1st to Aug. 1st, 1894, and in the spring of 1895, 
there will be serious disturbances and discontent throughout the country 
during Mr. Cleveland's administration. 

The planetary influences in Mr. Cleveland's horoscope for the next 
three years, will be similar to those which afflicted Gen. Grant's horo- 
scope in 1873, when he signed the bill which demonetized silver, and* 
which brought such serious disaster and stagnation in business throughout 
the country in the fall of 1873, continuing for a number of years, and 
which caused the origin of the "Greenback party." 

During 1873, Saturn and Uranus remained in close opposition, and 
afflicted both Saturn's and the Sun's places in the ascendant of the horo- 
scope of Gen. Grant. As Mr. Cleveland's horoscope has similar aspects, 
I look for a similar condition of business in the United States while he 
remains in office. 



ESTHER CLEVELAND'S NATIVITY. 

The managing editor of the "New York Sunday News, on the 
evening of the above child's birth, sent to me to have its horoscope cast 
for the issue of Sept. 10, 1893. 

I erected the following map of the heavens, made the necessary calcu- 
lations, and wrote the following short sketch of the baby's life. I insert 
it in this pamphlet for the reasons — 

First. It being the first President's child born in the White House, 
its birth is an important event in the history of the country, and it indi- 
cates to a certain extent the future of this Government, the condition of 
the people, and the future prosperity or adversity of the child's father. 

Saturn in the mid-heaven, and also the Sun, afflicted by Mars, 
indicate that both the father and the United States will have to go 
through a siege of affliction within the next few years. The Sun and 
Saturn always represent the father in a child's nativity, and the Sun 
afflicted by Mars in the tenth,* also Saturn afflicting the 10th house, 
indicate that the father, were he in any ordinary business, would fail 
or become bankrupt within a few years after the child's birth. Also, 
they indicate that the father's health will become seriously affected, especi- 

* The writer in "The Penny Magazine" would say "that the ioth house was fortified by the 
presence of Mars," but an enemy does not fortify, but afflicts and destroys. Mars being an evil 
planet, is an enemy. 



37 2 ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 

ally when Mars comes to a conjunction of the Sun by direction, which 
will be in about one year and nine months, at which time he will come 
near dying, and will meet with serious afflictions otherwise. Also there 
will be great discontent and excitement throughout the country, especially 
as the President will have evil aspects afFecting his own horoscope at 
the same time. 

If Miss Esther goes into business, she will often meet with heavy 
losses, and become bankrupt. 

Second. The enemies of Astrology have often made the remark, 
similar to Mr. Thomas Dick, that " Even though it were admitted that 
the heavenly bodies have an influence over the human race, yet we have 
no data whatever by which to ascertain the mode of its operation, or to 
determine the formula or rules by which calculations are to be made " 
..." and their pretensions nothing short of criminal imposition upon the 
credulity of mankind," And yet another Astrologer in a New York 
Sunday paper published Miss Esther's horoscope the same Sunday the 
one I wrote appeared in the " Sunday News," and we both agreed in 
all essential particulars. How was that possible if there are no rules or 
data in Astrology to go by ? If the same time of birth were taken to 
ten thousand Astrologers, they would all agree in the essential particu- 
lars in the horoscope, as to the native's personal appearance, temper, 
mental qualities, marriage, time of marriage, disposition, physical and 
mental qualities of the husband, and whether a happy marriage or the 
reverse; children, ailments, sickness, length of life, etc., as ten thousand 
persons proficient in arithmetic would agree in their calculations in any 
special sum. 

Astrologers are not like doctors, lawyers, ministers, etc., who all dis- 
agree with one another, and are always as wide apart in their deductions 
and' conclusions as the north pole is from the south, or the east from the 
west. It is a common by-word that no two doctors ever agree in their 
diagnosis and treatment, unless they are Homoeopathic or Astrological 
doctors. 

The different religionists have done nothing but disagree and fight 
with one another all the world over, since Adam's time, and there is 
nothing so bitter and fierce as a religious war. 

The whole stock in trade of a lawyer consists in disagreeing, and in 
taking a different view on the subject from the lawyer on the opposite 
side, and he keeps up this disagreement as long as he can, or as long as 
the money holds out. 

The Astrologers compare very favorably with the followers of any 
of the above professions in the consistency of their deductions. Astrol- 
ogv is an exact science ; it is almost impossible for its professors to disa- 
gree if the data are correct, and each of the Astrologers is proficient in 
the science. 

Is it not strange that professors of Astrology should be persecuted in all 
ages ? In ancient times they were persecuted as idolaters, because they 
were supposed to worship the Sun, Moon and Stars; and since the 
Reformation they have been persecuted as witches and heretics. Yet 
Astrologers are the only professors who agree with, and do not persecute, 
each other j and their science is as ancient as any of the sciences. 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. ^73 

From "The Sunday News " of September to, i& i|. 

THE BABY'S HOROSCOPE. * 

THE " SUNDAY NEWS " ASTROLOGIST PREDICTS A BRILLIANT LIFE. 

A Washington dispatch says : " At 12 noon yesterday (Sept. 9th), 
Mrs. Cleveland gave birth to a girl baby." 




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This young lady was born under the planet Jupiter in Gemini, just 
setting on the western horizon, with 3 deg. 8 min. of Sagittarius rising, 
and 18 deg. of Virgo on the mid-heaven. In personal appearance she 
will be similar to her mother. The books say : " Jupiter in Gemini 
represents a well-made, compact body, above the middle stature, san- 
guine or rather light complexion, with brown hair; full, expressive eyes, 
high forehead, the hair receding from the temples, prominent nose, and 
well-cut features. The deportment is graceful, courteous, gentle, mild, 
obliging, and good-natured." 

In early life she will have delicate health, but the Sun, " the giver of 
life," being so strong in the mid-heaven, there is but little doubt that 
she will live to be old, although she will be given up for dead when a 
little short of two years old, and again when nearly five. At these times 
she will have a fever or inflammation of the intestines, or may meet 
with an accident at one or, in fact, at both these times; but there is 
more danger of real sickness, fever, or inflammation. 

The intestines, chest, throat, and kidneys are the parts of her system 
that are the most likely to become affected, and in any sickness there is 
danger of these parts of the body becoming deranged. She will have 
other critical times for health, and will come near dying when 27, 28, 
and when nearly 30. After the latter age her health will not be seri- 
ously affected until she arrives at the age of 57 or 58. 

This young lady has a very fortunate horoscope, and is certain to 



374 ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 

become very noted and prominent ; like her father, she has four planets 
near a conjunction, in the mid-heaven. This is a remarkable phenome- 
non, and is what caused Mr. Cleveland to be elected President twice. 
She will arrive at great eminence and marry to great advantage. 

This horoscope is remarkably fortunate for intellect, and she will 
develop into a remarkably smart and intellectual lady, and will be well 
known for her learning. She will acquire knowledge with great rapidity, 
and will take to learning as easily as "a duck takes to water." She will 
excel in languages and mathematics, and become proficient in music, 
will have a good voice, make an eloquent speaker and a good singer. 
She will be especially noted for her refinement, intelligence, and good 
sound common sense. 

Ruth's sister will have a vast number of lady friends and acquaint- 
ances, and every one will like her. She will be as well known and as 
much appreciated as her mother. She has a much more fortunate horo- 
scope than Baby Ruth, and will become more popular and more noted 
than that young lady. She will also marry to greater advantage, and 
live happier with her husband. 

She weds a gentleman indicated by the planets Mercury in Virgo and 
Jupiter in Gemini. In a great measure he will be similar in appearance 
to herself, only much larger and taller. At the same time, he will never 
become stout. The books say : u He will be tall, well built, with dark 
brown or almost black hair, dark complexion, oval face, high forehead, 
prominent eyes, and large nose." He will be a fine, handsome-looking 
man, and be much admired. He will have a pleasing countenance, and 
an intelligent appearance; be witty, ingenious, and talented, a profound 
scholar and linguist, and capable of undertaking anything that requires 
great ability. They will live very happily and lovingly together, as the 
Sun makes a good aspect of Jupiter in the house of marriage. She is 
likely to marry only once, and not until she is 24 years of age, and may 
not marry until 27 ; but I think she will marry when 24. 

Her husband will become very wealthy, and is likely to be a lawyer 
or hold some high and prominent position under the Government. She 
stands a much better chance of becoming " the first lady of the land " 
than her sister does. 

She will have a small family of children, not more than three or four, 
and they are likely to be boys; but there is danger of one-half of them 
dying in their infancy. She is likely to become a noted authoress, and 
become very wealthy, and will be exceedingly fond of the curious and 
wonderful, and will have a liking for spiritualism and magnetism. She 
will also be very religious. 



I should think that any young lady would be willing to spend years in study in order to be 
able to set up a chart of the heavens, and learn for herself the description of the gentleman she 
will marry, and whether it will be a happy marriage. It could be learned in a few hours' study 
and at an expense of twenty-five cents for an ephemeris and a table of houses ; besides, it would 
enable her to point out all the constellations and any planets that may be visible in the heavens; 
persons not having any knowledge of Astronomy would have to take a few lessons in that science 
before they could erect a chart of the heavens by means of a table of houses and an ephemeris. 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 



375 



THE HOROSCOPE OF EMPEROR WILLIAM II. OF 

GERMANY. 



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The Emperor was born January 27, 1859, at 2:54 p. m., at Pots- 
dam, Germany. At his birth, 20 deg. of Cancer were rising, with the 
Moon, his ruling planet, in the sign Scorpio, in the 5th house, in close 
good aspect to Mars and Neptune in ihe mid-heaven. 

His nativity does not indicate a long life, neither is it very fortunate 
in money matters, as Saturn is in the 2d house (the house of money), in 
close opposition (very evil aspect) to the Sun, lord of the 2d, in the 8th 
house, which indicates that he will be unfortunate in money matters, 
and is liable to run into debt, and that his substance will be wasted. 

The nativity of William II. is rather fortunate for marriage. His 
wife is indicated by Mars, and being in good aspect to his planet, they 
will live harmoniously and happily. It is also fortunate for children : 
one of his sons is almost certain to succeed him as King of Prussia, but 
the kingdom will be heavily taxed, and be burdened with a large na- 
tional debt when he comes to the throne. 

William I. and the present Emperor both had Mars, the god of war, 
in the mid-heaven, therefore William II. will not be able to keep out of 
war any more than his grandfather. But as William I. had a more for- 
tunate horoscope, and his 2d house was not afflicted, he won every war 
he was engaged in, and received great indemnities ; also Mars was in 
good aspect to Venus, in its exaltation, and the Moon was leaving a 
good aspect of both, and applying to a good aspect of Jupiter in its own 
house ; all of which indicated that he would increase in substance and 
power, and arrive at eminence and great honor ; but the present Em- 
peror will be unsuccessful in war, and will have to pay indemnities, as 



$j6 ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 

he has Saturn afflicting his 2d house in opposition to the lord thereof. 
These are evil influences especially in money matters. 

The aspects in this horoscope, which indicated the present Emperor 
would arrive at his high position, are that Jupiter (lord of the mid-heaven), 
is in the 1 ith house, applying to a good aspect of Saturn and the Sun, and 
Mars in the mid-heaven in close good aspect to his own planet. These 
aspects are fortunate in elevating the native to honor; but when evil 
transits or directions afflict the Sun or Saturn, or both (which govern 
his substance), the native is liable to heavy losses and disaster. 

The Emperor had one of these evil aspects about the 10th or 11th 
of November, 1892, which caused him a great deal of trouble and anx- 
iety, especially in connection with the Reichstag and government affairs ; 
he felt this evil aspect in a marked degree during April, May, and part of 
June and September, and will still feel it until the fore part of December, 
1893. These evil aspects must have affected his health. But after that 
date he has favorable influences, and things will be more prosperous both 
for himself and his dominions; especially commencing in May, 1894., 
he will have a very fortunate aspect, and will become very popular. 
Should he commence war at that time with France or any other nation, 
he will be successful, at least for a time. In July and August, 1894, he will 
have some difficulty with the Reichstag on account of incurring extra ex- 
penses or increasing the taxes ; but the latter part of the year 1894. will be 
a fortunate period. During February and March, 1895, there is danger 
of his having trouble with the Reichstag on account of the increased 
expenses of the Government ; there is also likely to be a dispute or 
quarrel with some foreign power, but it may possibly be smoothed over 
for the time being. He will either be sick during these two months or 
there will be deaths, sickness, or misfortunes in his family. 

During October and November, 1895, he will have evil aspects, which 
he will continue to feel all through the winter, especially in February 
and March, 1896. Still he may avoid war. 

November and December, 1896, will 'not pass without his getting 
involved in war, or some serious disputes, and the whole of 1897 will be 
a remarkably evil year, during which he is certain to be at war with some 
foreign nation, likely to be either France or Russia, or both. The Ger- 
man armies will meet with defeat and heavy losses, and will undergo as 
serious a disaster as France suffered in 1870. There is much danger 
that the Emperor will not live over 1897; if he does, he is likely to 
meet with disgrace similar to that of Napoleon at the battle of Sedan. 

The Emperor is almost certain to die a natural death, and not be 
killed in battle. He will suffer with some affection of the head, also of 
the kidneys and bladder, attended with rheumatism and swelling of the 
lower limbs ; the heart will also become affected. 

This horoscope is quite the reverse of that of Jay Gould's, who had 
Jupiter and Venus in the 2d house, the house of money. He began with 
nothing, and died worth seventy-two millions ; whereas the Emperor of 
Germany, having his 2d house so much afflicted by Saturn, will either die 
poor or the nation will be heavily in debt at his death. 



ELEMENTS OF ASTROLOGY. 377 

THE HOROSCOPE OF THE THIRD FRENCH REPUBLIC. 

The Third French Republic was declared Sept. 4, 1870, at 4 p. m., 
Paris, France. 

Thirteen degrees of Capricorn were rising, and 16 deg. of Scorpio 
were on the mid-heaven; the Moon was just coming to the ascendant 
and applying to a square of Mercury in Libra, a movable sign; the 
Moon was also making an opposition of Mars and Uranus, both in the 
7th house. The Moon being 17 degrees from an opposition of Uranus, 
and reckoning a degree for a year, would indicate that the Government 
of France was in a critical condition in 1888 and '89, when the Bou- 
langer excitement occurred, which came near upsetting the Government. 
There was another critical time about ten years after the Republic was 
declared, when the Moon made an opposition of Mars. At that time 
there came near being a war with Germany. 

Tn the fall and winter of i8o,2-'93 Saturn was in evil aspect to 
the Moon's and Mercury's places, both in October and November, '92, 
and January and February, '93, when the great excitement about the 
Panama Scandal occurred. In January there was trouble with the 
laborers and also with the medical students, and riots occurred in Paris. 

Saturn was in evil aspect again in July and August, when riots again 
occurred in Paris, connected with medical students and hospital doctors ; 
and the Siamese excitement, when England threatened France with war. 

But, commencing in the middle of December, 1893, and continuing 
to May 1, 1894, Saturn will be stationary in evil aspect to Uranus's 
place, Neptune in evil aspect to the Sun's place, and Uranus will be in 
evil aspect to" Venus's place ; therefore I look for more excitement and 
disturbances in Paris, and also in a number of other cities in France, 
than there have been for a number of years past. I shall deem the Third 
Republic remarkably fortunate if it can weather that storm. 

In the latter part of 1895, and during the whole of 1896, the horo- 
scope of France will be afflicted by Saturn and Uranus transiting its 
mid-heaven, and either it will be a very stormy period for the Chamber 
of Deputies, or else the Government will be involved in war. These 
evil aspects will continue until November, 1897. However, should the 
Republic survive that stormy period, there is nothing very threatening 
until February, 1899, at which time there will be severe afflictions for 
the Republic, which will continue until 1901. 

On account of there being so many planets in angles, afflicted in 
movable signs, it is impossible for the French Republic to last a great 
number of years, and 1901 is about the limit of its existence. But it 
may even go under in the fore part of 1894, or the summer of ] 895. 



When President Carnot of France was assassinated in 1896, the nation 
was under considerable strain, but finally things adjusted themselves. 
The government has been put to a decided strain during the latter part 
of 1897 and the fore part of 1898, in the trial and conviction of Zola, 
the noted author, and there is really great danger that in 1901 the 
republic will not be able to weather the storm that will then rise. 



APPENDIX, 
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS TO A PAMPHLET 

ENTITLED 

WHY I AM AN ASTROLOGER, 

AND A REPLY TO 

RICHARD A. PROCTOR'S 

ARTICLE ON THE 

"HUMBUG OF ASTROLOGY," 

PUBLISHED IN THE "NEW YORK WORLD," FEB. 6TH, 1 887, WITH CRITICISMS 

ON THE "NEW YORK WORLD," MR. PROCTOR, AND JUDCE JOHN JAY 

GORDON, OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



L. D, BROUGHTON, M. D. 



New York: 
PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR, 

68 South Washington Square. 



PREFACE. 

THE revival of the ancient science of Astrology is now assured beyond a doubt. 

Twenty years ago when I first commenced publishing Broughtori s Monthly 

Planet Reader and Astrological Journal — at that time the only publication of the kind 

in the world — the word "Astrology" had to be spoken in polite society with 'bated 

breath ; the astrologers were relegated to the category of fools and knaves, and the 

ministers of the gospel consigned them to the torments and tortures of the infernal 

regions. The newspapers, lecturers and periodicals of that day mentioned the word 

"Astrology" only when they wanted to create a laugh, or to hold up its votaries to 

public ridicule ; and 1 know from dearly-bought experience that astrologers had no 

more rights, either in the community or in a court of justice, than a "nigger" had 

"away down South" in the days of slavery. But thanks to the lectures and writings of 

Professors Tyndall, Huxley and Darwin, the scales are dropping from people's eyes, 

and they are beginning to find out that the world is governed by fixed laws, and that 

"miracles" are at a discount. Ministers no longer preach sermons against Astrology. 

and on account of public attention being drawn to the near approach of the perihelion 

of the planets, almost every newspaper, both in this country and Europe, has contained 

articles advocating the belief in the influence of the planets. 

The London Evening Standard of July 6th, 1880, in commenting on Mr. B. G. 

Jenkins' paper on Meteorology and Planetary Influence, read by him before the Dulwich 

College Geological Club, said : — 

"From the lofty heights of modern science we have been accustomed to look down with pity 
and contempt upon the astrologers of the Middle Ages, — the weak dabblers in science who were 
foolish enough to believe that the stars had an influence upon man. An allusion to astrologers was 
always good to raise a laugh at a science meeting, and the astrologers and alchemists were classed 
together as either dreamers or charlatans. Of late years, however, a certain reaction has set in. 
The astrologer is becoming rehabilitated very rapidly. The influence of the planets upon the 
earth is now admitted to be very distinct, and fresh proofs of their disturbing influences are con- 
stantly cropping up." 

A few scientific men having made observations on the coincidence of Sun-spots with 
extraordinary features of weather, and also discovering that the Sun-spots were caused 
by the influence of the planets, and in this way having gradually led the thinking por- 
tion of the public to recognize that the master-minds of former generations were not 
entirely mistaken in tracing the mutations of weather and of mundane events to 
planetary influence ; the day is now fast dawning when Astrology shall again take rank 
Avith the physical sciences, and the predictions of the astrologer will go hand in hand 
with the calculations of the astronomer. 

Although the approaching perihelion of the planets has not as yet produced any 
particular famine except in Ireland and certain parts of Russia and Turkey ; nor any 
noted pestilence except the yellow fever in 1878 and 1879 in New Orleans, Granada, 
Vicksburg and Memphis ; the black pest and diphtheria in Russia and part of Turkey, 
and the cholera in India ; yet everyone knows that long droughts are becoming more 
common ; the heats of summer are felt to be more oppressive and destructive to 
human life, — more people dying from heat in cities with the mercury at 85 than in 
former years at 95 ; malarial fever was never before so common among all classes, 
and steamboat and railroad accidents are almost of every day occurrence. These are 
some of the effects of our earth not getting its usual share of life and magnetism 
frOm the sun, on account of so many of the other superior planets being in their peri- 
helion and drawing more than their usual share of life and magnetism from that body. 



INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. 



Near the first of June, 1886, Mr. Romaine (a complete stranger to 
me), was sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment in the Penitentiary 
at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, solely, so far as I can find out, for prac- 
ticing astrology. Judge Gordon, when passing sentence on the prisoner, 
made use of the following words: — "I can conceive of no crime, except 
possibly low forms of gambling, that is more injurious than the business 
you carried on." 

The general reader will naturally infer, after perusing the above state- 
ment, that practicing astrology is a very low business, and that there are 
but few lines of occupation that can be compared to it, in its degrading 
effect. That there may be a difference of opinion in regard to the 
science and practice of astrology is reasonable to expect, but from what 
cause that difference arises may not be so clear; and it is to make it as 
clear as possible, and to remove certain erroneous impressions, that I write 
these, Introductory Remarks. The facts and the proofs of the truth of 
astrology will be given in the Elements of Astrology. 

In all nations, both barbarous and civilized, that we have any knowledge 
of, and in all ages, wherever and whenever there has been a difference 
of opinion among men, either in learning, science, or religion, those on 
one side who are in the majority have always claimed the right of 
imprisoning and putting to death those on the other side who are in the 
minority, and they have generally carried that assumed right into execution. 

The justice or injustice of such proceedings I shall not stop to argue. 
I only give it as a fact which all history goes* to confirm, even up to the 
present day ; and such is likely to be the case as long as the human race 
exists. I shall bring some very startling evidence in the volume itself, 
assertion, both in these Introductory Remarks, and in the pamphlet itself. 
Not only have the minority, or those who are in subjection for the time 
being, been inprisoned and put to death, but as far as possible they have 
always been prevented from being heard, either by public speaking, and 
meetings, or in the public prints;* yet, strange to. say, these very persecu- 
tions by the majority, instead of accomplishing the object intended, have 
always had the opposite effect. Hence have arisen such sayings, as " the 
blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church." 

I have divided these Introductory Remarks into sections, in the following 
order, and for the purpose herewith indicated : 

First : — Why I undertook to write this pamphlet. 

Second: — The object I hope to accomplish by the present publication. 

Third: — An introduction of myself to the reader; a statement of my 
standing in the society where I have been known for thirty years ; also a 

* See pages 400 and 404. 



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short description of my parentage, and of what my family has suffered in 
the cause of good government, and for the cause of astrology ; and finally 
a declaration of the reasons why I became an astrologer. 

First : — Why I undertook to write this pamphlet. 

To the general reader, the conviction and imprisonment of one person 
may appear a very slight matter, and not worth troubling one's self about. 
But it ought to be borne in mind that if one person can be sent to prison 
unjustly, another may also be sent thither; and finally it may come to the 
reader's turn himself, to be sent to prison unjustly. 

While living under a good goverment, it is very pleasant to think that 
each individual is protected in his rights, no matter how low or humble 
he may be. 

Let us suppose that one of these individuals finds his property right 
invaded. What is the course he pursues to gain redress ? He applies 
to the legal tribunals to adjudicate the case, and upon a hearing, it is pos- 
sibly decided favorably. The sheriff takes the order of the court and 
proceeds to collect the amount, and if the execution is satisfied, it is well: 
but if force is resorted to, to prevent the execution, the sheriff calls on a 
number of citizens who will aid him in securing the injured party's rights. 
If this should not be sufficient, perhaps, he calls upon the Governor of 
the State to call out the State troops : and the Governor may even have 
to call on the President of the United States for troops. And all this 
may occur to protect one poor individual in his right of property, or his 
life. This is all very nice in theory, and it is nothing but just that the 
theory should always be carried out in practice. 

In a commonwealth like the State of New York, there may possibly be 
a dozen murders committed in one year. The county or State goes to 
a great expense and trouble in arresting the murderers, and in convicting 
and executing them. All this is done so that each person may know 
beforehand, if he premeditates committing murder, or indeed any crime, 
that no expense and trouble will be spared by the county or State in 
bringing the criminal to justice; and also that each person may know 
and feel that his life, liberty and property are held sacred. Where 
legislatures enact good and wise laws, and where there are just and wise 
judges and legal courts to carry these laws into effect, the commonwealth 
that possesses them is said to have a good government, and m people are 
generally happy and prosperous. 

On the other hand, let us draw a picture giving the condition of the 
people where all these things are reversed ; that is, where the people are 
living under a bad government, where bad laws are enacted, and where 
those laws are executed by unjust judges, and corrupt or biased juries. 

I have already supposed that there may be about one dozen murders 
committed in the State of New York in a year, and that there may be 
ten or twelve criminals hanged or imprisoned for these crimes in the 
same length of time. But under a bad government, enacting and execut- 
ting bad laws, if we can believe history, in a community no larger than 
the State of New York, there have been thousands and even tens of 
thousands of innocent persons executed in a single year, and in such an 



382 APPENDIX. 

excruciating manner that even to think of their sufferings at the present 
day, makes our blood run cold. This state of things was continued year 
after year. 

I need only refer the reader to the history of the trials and executions 
of heretics, witches and wizards, in almost all nations and in all ages. 
And, as Robert G. Ingersoll has said, there is no doubt but that the 
authorities would have gone on hanging and burning heretics and witches, 
even up to the present day, were it not that the number of heretics and 
witches who seriously objected to being either hanged or roasted alive, 
gradually became too numerous. 

To send even one person to jail unjustly is treading on very dangerous 
ground. If we may be guided by past history, the sentencing and exe- 
cuting of one heretic, witch or wizard, or, as in the case of Mr. Romaine, 
the imprisonment of one man for the studying and practicing of a very 
ancient and useful art and science, may become a most injurious precedent, 
like that of the first person who was guillotined on account of politics 
in France, a circumstance which eventually led to the guillotining of 
Robespierre himself. 

Even the conviction of Mr. Romaine of a misdemeanor, and the 
sentencing of him. for felony, is of itself, as they would say in the British 
House of Commons, a very dangerous precedent. Such proceedings may 
be compared to a little boy with a lighted match in close proximity to a 
powder magazine, which may explode it at any moment. 

Blackstone in his "Commentaries," in page 60, Book Fourth, says: 
" To deny the possibility, nay, actual existence of witchcraft and sorcery, 
is at once flatly to contradict the revealed word of God, in various pas- 
sages of the Old and New Testament ; and the thing itself is a truth to 
which every nation in the world hath in its turn borne testimony, either 
by examples seemingly well attested or by prohibitory laws." If it was 
possible for the legislatures in all ager; and all nations (including even the 
Christian nations), to have been deceived in their belief in witchcraft, 
is it not possible that all the Christian nations of the present day may 
equally be deceived in their disbelief in astrology ; especially when all 
these disbelievers are ignorant of even the first A B C of that science. 

Mr. Romaine has been tried, convicted and sentenced, and for anything 
that I know to the contrary, he is now serving out his sentence in the 
Penitentiary at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. But I wish to have Mr. 
Romaine retried in another court, and before another jury ; the court to be 
"Public Opinion," and the jury to be composed of the world at large. 

I believe that in reopening a case for a new trial, the lawyers on both 
sides are sometimes allowed to write out their speeches, and even have 
them printed, and hand them to the judges to read and study over at 
their leisure, instead of making any personal argument, or set speech in 
their presence. I have followed this method in making my appeal to the 
higher court, in which I hope to have Mr. Romaine's case retried. And 
if I cannot get a clear verdict in his favor, I trust at least the jury will 
disagree. 

In my pamphlet, I shall only plead Mr. Romaine's side of the case. 
The other side can be found in all the " Encyclopedias," and " Biographical 



APPENDIX. 383 

Dictionaries," of all the European Languages. It can be obtained in 
"Appleton's American Cyclopedia," and I might say in nearly every 
book that treats on the natural sciences, except in those which are specially 
devoted to astrology. These last named, of course, give Mr. Romaine's 
side of the question, and to them I refer those readers who may desire a 
more extensive argument than I can possibly give in this pamphlet, on 
behalf of astrology. I have in my own possession over fifty different 
text books on the science of astrology. 

Why all the publishers of encyclopedias and dictionaries continue to 
publish what they know, or ought to know, are falsehoods, in the articles 
on astrology in their various publications, I shall endeavor to explain, in 
the latter part of this pamphlet. I shall also give a history of the "Act 
for the Suppression of Fortune-telling," under which Mr. Romaine was 
convicted, and a copy of the law itself, which is not very creditable to 
those persons who were engaged in engineering it through the Pennsylvania 
Legislature. Also will be found an account of my humble efforts to de- 
feat the enactment of the said bill while it was pending in the Legislature. 

Second: — The object I hope to accomplish by the present publication. 

If I succeed in getting the jury to disagree, I shall have accomplished a 
great result. Such a disagreement, like all disagreements of juries, will 
naturally create discussion, and the discussion will certainly redound to 
the benefit of astrology. In the forepart of the pamphlet, I compare the 
calculations in astrology to those in arithmedc, and demonstrate that they 
are almost equally infallible; but in the latter part of the pamphlet, where 
I refer to Mr. Babbage's calculating machine, I show that astrology is 
even more infallible than arithmetic. Consequentlv, if they send people 
to prison for practicing astrology, they ought doubly to send them there 
for practicing arithmetic. 

No doubt it will strike the reader as a little remarkable, that astrology 
should be the only science or art in existence concerning which expert 
testimony is entirely discarded, and in regard to which only the opinions 
of men who are the most ignorant of the subject, are entertained. If I 
can get the public's attention directed even to this point, I shall then not 
have published this pamphlet in vain. The opponents of astrology meet 
this point by presupposing that all who give any attention to that science, 
are either fools or knaves, and therefore their testimony cannot be taken 
into account. 

It may be very puzzling for the reader to understand, how it happens 
that a person who learns reading, writing, and arithmetic, and who-possibly 
adds a knowledge of chemistry, geography and astronomy, if he stops there, 
he remains a very sensible and honest man. But if to these acquirements he 
should add the study of astrology, he then becomes insane, or dishonest. 
But if we can believe all the Newspapers, Dictionaries, and Encyclopedias 
published at the present day, such is the fact, whether it can be explained 
or not. That is one reason why it is almost an impossibility to get 
anything published in any newspaper in favor of astrology, while anything 
that is derogatory to that science, can get prominent notice, and almost 
any amount of space. 



3^4 APPENDIX. 

Only last March, a correspondent, signing himself J. J. Y., asked the 
editor of the "New York World," for some information about astrology, 
and received for his answer the following paragraph : 

" In this day and generation a man who believes that the planets govern 
our actions should not let any one know it. Such an admission is prima 
facie evidence of insanity or idiocy." 

For a wonder, however, the World inserted, the following communi- 
cation from the writer of these pages : 



To the Editor of the World : — 

Dear Sir : — Will you please explain why those people who make a 
lifelong study of astrology, are the greatest believers in it, while those 
like yourself, who do not know even the A B C of astrology, laugh at 
and ridicule it? Should it ever be the fortune of "J. J. Y." to study 
astrology, and prove for himself whether the planets have any influence 
on the earth and its inhabitants or not, he will exclaim, "What ignorant 
men the Editors of the World are!" I have made astrology a special 
study for over forty years j my father made it a study for about forty 
years ; and my grandfather for over forty years, making altogether over 
one hundred years of careful observation and study, and during that 
time I have had six children born, and mv father had eight and my 
grandfather had seven or eight born. The exact moment of birth of all 
these children was noted and all their nativities calculated, all of which 
have proved the truth of astrology. I have also examined near or about 
one hundred thousand of other people's nativities, and whenever the time 
of birth has been correct they have all gone on the side of proving the 
truth of astrology. I have had also a number of professors of colleges 
as students, I have had also some of the most learned and wealthy people 
in the United States and in England as students and patrons. 

They are the people who ought to have been able to find out the falsity 
of astrology. But the fact of the matter is, it is only the ignorant, the 
insane, and the idiots who do not believe in astrology. 

Yours, Respectfully, 

L. D. Broughton, M. D., 
March 16th, 1886. 66 West Fourth Street, New York. 



In discussing these letters, my son, who assists me in my business, 
objected to further interest on my part, saying that " I had already suffered 
enough for astrology, and I ought now to let some one else suffer." 

Should the time ever arrive when astrology, like all other arts and 
sciences, is popularly estimated in accordance with what its friends, and 
those who are the most experienced, and who possess the fullest knowledge 
on the subject, have to say about it ; instead of being estimated in 
accordance with the statements of its enemies, and of those who have no 
knowledge or experience whatever, then the reaction will be remarkable, 
and the public will begin to find out how much they have been gulled for 



APPENDIX. 385 

the last two hundred vears, by those pretended scientific men, who give 
opinions on subjects they know nothing about. New editions of Dic- 
tionaries and Encyclopedias and other scientific works will be called for, 
as the publishers will discover that the present editions have become 
entirely obsolete. 

If the reader accepts the theory that in forming a judgment respecting 
astrology, we are to be guided by those persons who possess the most 
knowledge and experience on the subject, in all parts of the world wnere 
the science is cultivated, and also that those who possess such knowledge 
are to be regarded as the true experts of the science ; he will likewise 
perceive, before he concludes these Introductory Remarks, that the standing 
of the present writer, as an authority on the subject under consideration, 
is almost unrivalled. In the article which was published in the "New 
York World," I stated that I had studied astrology for over forty years. 
During that time I think I have put astrology to the most severe tests, 
almost every day, which it is possible ever to apply it to. I have also 
read all the books in the English language, that I could lay my hands on, 
which have been written for or against the science. After applying the 
tests for so long a period, extending over successive generations, if I am 
still deceived, and if my forefathers were also deceived, then I think it is 
possible to deceive even the very elect. But even supposing that I have 
been continually deceived, how am I to be convinced of it by persons 
like Judge Gordon of Philadelphia, who does not even know the first 
principles of astrology, who never subjected it to a single test, or made 
a single calculation, and does not know even one solitary fact relating 
either to the truth or falsity of the science ? If sending people to prison, 
and making "Buncombe speeches," like those of Judge Gordon, is going 
to convince me, and all other astrologers, that we have been so long 
deceived, then why did not the hanging and roasting alive of so many 
millions of heretics and witches in all parts of the civilized world, con- 
vince all the remaining heretics and witches, that they were wrong and 
had been deceived? Judge Gordon's vituperation of Mr. Romaine, and 
the condemnation of that victim to prison, reminds me of the scolding 
and whipping of " Topsy," by Aunt Ophelia in "Uncle Tom's Cabin." 
After Topsy had gone through all the hardships inflicted, she says: 
"Golly ! Aunt Ophelia's whippin' wouldn't kill a skitty." 

I think I have made this subject sufficiently plain, and exposed the 
ignorance of all those who condemn astrology, and persecute astrologers, 
when they themselves have no practical knowledge on the subject, and 
have endeavored to prove that it is only the same kind of persecution 
which harassed Copernicus, Galileo, Samuel Hahnemann, and I might 
even include all the inventors and discoverers in art or science in former 
ages. But possibly I might illustrate this point, and make it plainer by 
one or two anecdotes, which have reference to other sciences or subjects, 
not at all connected with astrology. In my early years when I was 
studying Chemistry, if I attempted to argue a point, my teacher would 
stop me short, by saying : — " You know nothing without experiments," 
and that has been a lesson which I have never forgotten. If a person can 
know nothing in other sciences, like chemistry, without experiments, then 



386 APPENDIX. 

how is it possible for him to know anything in practical astrology, which 
is a thousand times more intricate than chemistry, without putting it to a 
single test, or making a single observation. 

Another illustration may not be out of place, as it may possibly explain 
how people, through ignorance, may condemn astrology, on account of its 
supposed wickedness, similar to the following lecturer on Natural History, 
who supposed he had a clear case of Natural Theology, or the goodness 
of God, but which was not proven by experiments and observations. 

Some thirty years ago, when I was studying geology in Philadelphia, 
Prof. Ennis, my teacher gave an account of a man lecturing on Natural 
History before an audience, among whom there was a person who had 
traveled in the Arctic Regions. Both the lecturer and the particular 
listener were known to Prof. Ennis. The former was giving a description 
of a particular species of deer, which had large spreading horns, or 
antlers. He was telling how useful those horns were for brushing or 
scraping the snow from the grass, so that the deer could eat the uncovered 
herbage at its leisure, and he illustrated his remarks by the motion of his 
own head, from one side to the other over the desk in front of him. 
He went on expatiating on the goodness of God in providing the animal 
with just such horns, in those high latitudes, where the snow covers the 
ground more than one half of the year, and remarked that if this pro- 
vision had <ot been made by an all-wise providence, the deer would all 
certainly perish of hunger. When this observation was made, the man 
who h d visited the Arctic Regions, burst out laughing. After the 
lecturer had concluded his discourse, he went to the traveller and asked 
him why he laughed. The answer was, "that the thing was so good he 
could not eep from laughing," and added, "do you not know that every 
year, before the snow begins to fall, that particular species of deer always 
sheds its horns?" 

The above anecdote illustrates what mistakes a man is liable to make 
when he attempts to speal on a subject or science concerning which 
he is n t well informed. N thing will, or can, stand in the place of facts, 
experiments, and observations. Either the lecturer on Natural History 
in the above anecdote, or the Creator, made a mistake in regard to the 
use of the horns. But had the lecturer seen the deer, and watched 
them in the different seasons of the year, he might have observed that 
they had other methods of brushing the snow off the grass, than by using 
their horns, to which he w s giving such unmerited praise. Had the 
horns *rown on the lecturer's own head, he might have used them for 
some such purpose, and, like Nebuchadnezzar of old, he could then have 
eaten the grass at his leisure, even in the middle of winter. 

The objections and arguments which the enemies of astrology, and 
those w are ignorant of that science, bring against it, on account of its 
wickedness, &c, when they are brought to the test of experiment and 
observation, are like the horns of the deer, and the falling of the snow. 
When the snow of purity, truth, and science begins to fall, those horns 
of arguments and objections, which had stood aloft in ignorance • when 
they are needed, have already fallen from the deer's head, and lay rotting 
on the ground. 



APPENDIX. 387 

In the latter part of this volume, I believe I have examined and 
answered every argument and objection that has been, or can be brought 
against Astrology, even in the case of twins, or triplets, and also of many 
•thousands of people who are born in one day. Of course the skeptics 
say that all those persons ought to have the same Nativity, and should 
experience similar events through life, &c, &c. All such arguments are 
about as near perfect nonsense as we can find in this world, and the only 
puzzling part of it is, how any man or woman, outside of an insane 
asylum, could get such ridiculous ideas into their heads. And yet I 
cannot remember ever lecturing on astrology without some man or woman 
getting up in the audience and making just such objections. Only this 
fall, while giving part of the following pamphlet in a lecture, an old man 
got up in the middle of the lecture to ask me if he could put a few 
questions when I got through. But he could not wait until I had finished, 
and went on to ask the same old stereotyped questions just as if he thought 
it was a grand new discovery that he had made. The fact being that 
those very same questions had been asked and answered thousands of years 
ago, as may be seen by reference to " Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos," and other 
ancient works on astrology. 

Whenever an astrologer is arrested for practicing his profession, all the 
newspapers, in giving an account of it, have such headings as " An 
Astrologer who did not know his own Nativity," or "An Astrologer who 
did not know his own Fate," &c. In answer to those newspaper head- 
ings, in the latter part of the volume, I think I have turned the tables 
on the -editors themselves. 

Third : — An introduction of myself to the reader, a statement of my 
standing in the society where I have been known for thirty years, also a 
short description of my parentage and what my family has suffered in the 
cause of good government, and for the cause of astrology ; and finally a 
declaration of the reasons why I became an astrologer. 

Solomon says, " Let another praise thee, yea a stranger, and not thin^ 
own self." Were I to consult my own feelings, I should pass by this 
branch of my topic in silence. But when it comes to matters of perse- 
cutions and imprisonment, I think we ought not to stand knocking at the 
door of modesty, or be guided by the strict rules of etiquette. 

In the summer of 1885 I wrote to a friend, who is one of the editors 
of a leading daily news paper of New York City, stating that I had 
recently buried my oldest son, and that it had so affected his mother's and 
my own health, that we had concluded to take a trip to Europe for a 
change of scene, and in the hope that we might be improved by the ocean 
voyage, I desired him to give me letters of introduction to persons in 
London, Paris and Dublin, as we proposed visiting each of those cities. 
I received the following reply : 

New York, July 28th, 1885. 

My Dear Doctor: — I enclose a letter to my brother, who has a very 
good position and large acquaintance in London, and to whom I have 
often spoken of you. 1 know no one in Paris, or in Ireland. I am leaving 



388 APPENDIX. 

town this afternoon, or I should call and bid your wife and yourself bon 
voyage in person, and I hope you may have a pleasant journey and a 
safe return, and complete restoration to health. 

I am pained to hear of the death of your son, — which must have been 
announced when I was out of town. It is a pity such a bright voung 
man, so intelligent, and so amiable as I remember him, should be taken 
away. Pray accept my very sincere condolence. 

Yours, faithfully, 
Dr. L. D. Broughton. George I. O # " 



The following is the letter of introduction. 

New York, July 28th, 1885. 

Dear David : — This will introduce to you Dr. Broughton, the Seer 
and Astrologer of whom I have often spoken to you, and who has, for as 
many as fifteen years been my "guide, philosopher and friend." I shall be 
very glad if you will do anything you can to oblige him, while in London, 
and am very sure you will -enjoy meeting a gentleman who represents 
three successive generations of occult intelligence, besides being in his 
proper person a physician of ability and experience. 

Yours, Sincerely, 

Geo. I. O ." 



I had other letters of introduction to parties in England of a similar 
nature. I have not given the real r...me of the above writer for obvious 
reasons. 

Over twenty years ago, a gentleman from the Pacific Slope, was re- 
quested to buy a "Raphael's Ephemeris."* He called in vain at most of 
the booksellers in St. Louis, Chicago, New York, and other cities, and at 
a shop in Boston, there he got the same answer, "No ! " A gentleman who 
happened to be present, looked up and said, " If you should pass through 
New York, you can get t'he work from Dr. Broughton." The gentleman 
from the West wrote down the address, and while he was doing so, the 
stranger added, " You call and see the Doctor ; you will find him a perfect 
gentleman, and the best astrologer in America." I never knew who that 
stranger was. The man from the West started for New York the same 
afternoon, and on his arrival here, he put his wife in a carriage and sent 
her to his hotel, while he came direct to my office. He has since brought 
some of the most prominent people of the United States to consult me, 
and whenever I, or members of my family, travel in the neighborhood of 
his relatives or their friends, we are always welcome guests. 

Some two years ago, a stranger called to consult me, and while I was 
making a chart of the heavens for his time of birth, he said : — " Do you 
know that you are a constant theme of conversation in the capital of 

Note :— * An Ephemeris is a small book or pamphlet, containing the longitude, latitude, and 
declination of the moon, and seven of the larger planets, for each day in the year, and also the right 
ascension, longitude, and declination of the situ, lor every day. 



APPEND7X. 3^9 

Italy." That gentleman I afterwards learned was a sculptor of almost 
world-wide reputation; he has been the means of sending some of the 
most wealthy and prominent people of America and Europe to consult 
me. 

A number of years ago I was attending a sick lady in the upper part 
of the city, and after I came out of her room, her husband requested me 
to sit down in the parlor. Having asked me about his wife, he said : 
" Where do you think I first saw your name, and heard people talking 
about you?" He said, "In Hong Kong, China." He told me that some 
missionaries had taken several of my publications out there, and that he 
heard them talking about me, and reading them. People have been 
recommended to me from all parts of the world, and many have come 
long distances to see me. Sam. Ward, who died in Europe a few years 
ago, spoke of me almost everywhere he traveled. When he died I lost a 
good friend, bat a close intimacy has been kept up by some of his relatives. 

Among the many friends of the late Gen. John H. Devereux, there 
was none who felt more grieved to learn of his death than the writer of 
these pages. During his visits to New York, he often spent a pleasant 
hour with me in my office. In the fall of 1884 while journeying in the 
West, I stopped at Cleveland to visit a number of friends, among whom 
were Mr. Devereaux, who was then President of the C. C. C. & I. Railroad, 
and Mr. Chas. Lattimere Chief Engineer of the N. Y. P. & O. Railroad, 
and President of the International Institute for Preserving and Perfecting 
Weights and Measures. In company with the latter gentleman I called 
on Mr. Devereaux at his office, during my visit he reiterated a previously 
made request for me to write his nativity in full as soon as I could spare 
time. After a pleasant hour spent in conversation, as I was leaving, Mr. 
Devereaux remarked. "Mr. Lattimere tells me this is your first visit to 
Cleveland, we do not often do this sort of thing, but we want to make 
you feel good so you will come again, and that you will remember your 
visit to our city ; " and handing me passes to New York for myself and 
wife, we parted. The passes were not so much in themselves, but the 
kindly and cordial manner in which they were so unexpectedly given, left 
a lasting impression on my mind. 

I might here state that Mr. Devereux's nativity was one of the most 
difficult I ever handled. The positions of the planets were extremely 
complicated, and he did not know the exact time of birth. Partly on that 
account, and partly on account of sickness in my family, I had not finished 
writing it at the time of Mr. Devereux's fatal illness. I should have 
called to see him at his hotel in New York, on his return from Europe, 
where he had been to try if the sea voyage would benefit his health, only 
I was afraid that I might, in his then weak condition, possibly say some- 
thing which might produce a very gloomy impression on his mind, and 
thus in some way retard or prevent his recovery. For that reason I 
denied myself the pleasure of seeing him. Only the night before he died, 
he said to Mr. Latimere's son, who was attending him, " I would like to 
have Dr. Broughton's opinion on my case." 

After his death, at the request of one of his family, I wrote out a short 
sketch of his nativity, also giving the aspects in operation at his death. 



39° APPENDIX. 

I have made this part of my Introductory Remarks much longer than 
I had intended, and will close the subject by alluding to two or three 
other matters which have reference to myself. I could fill a book of such 
instances, but as the lawyers say, that would be only cumulative proof. 

For a number of years I have been a member of a society called 
*' The Ancient Order of Druids," and after having been elected and 
serving a term as its presiding officer, I have been elected and re-elected 
Treasurer every term since. All the Lodges or Groves of that order in 
the city of New York send delegates to a monthly meeting, which is called 
the First Grand District, where they transact business for the mutual 
benefit of all the Groves. I have been re-elected Treasurer for this Grand 
District " for a number of years, and without opposition. 

In the yearly elections of the Grand Grov'e of the State of New 
York, for the year 1886, I was unanimously chosen Grand Treasurer 
for that Grand Grove ; and when I was installed, a member belonging to 
another Grove, was disposed to quarrel with me because I had not asked 
him to be one of my bondsmen. We have had a Druidic University in 
the city of New York for a number of years, although not in active 
operation. I have been re-elected Treasurer every year since it was 
incorporated. 

I was also the Treasurer for the Eclectic Medical Association of the 
State of New York, for a number of years in succession. Even private 
persons who have been unfortunate in having their trunks robbed, and 
from banks failing, have afterwards brought their money to me for safe 
keeping, and without interest. 

I simply mention a few of these circumstances, in order that the reader 
may have some idea of my standing among people with whom I have 
associated many years. And yet according to the " Penal Code " of the 
State of New York, I am classed among " prostitutes," "gamblers," "for- 
tune-tellers," "clairvoyants," and people of "disreputable character," and 
I am liable at any moment, upon any frivolous complaint, to be arrested, 
and even without a trial before a jury, to be consigned to prison for six 
months or required to give bonds to a large amount, that I will discon- 
tinue the practice of my profession. 

It strikes me as very curious that the people and the law should regard 
the same things and persons from such opposite standpoints. If these 
laws were the will of the people, there ought to be no clashing, and the 
two should run smoothly together. I have reference now to myself and 
the "Penal Code." There is not a person who knows me, who would 
class me among criminals, and yet the " Penal Code " does. 

No wonder that the hardy toilers called the "Knights of Labor," 
should be willing to receive all classes of people into their order, either 
men or women, except liquor sellers, and lawyers. The first rob them of 
their money and their reason, and the latter of their money, and sometimes 
of their rights, and their liberties. Next time the "Penal Code" is 
revised, if the " Knights of Labor " (and they are growing stronger and 
more numerous every day,) have anything to say in the matter, no doubt 
the rumsellers, and the lawyers, will be classed with the prostitutes, 
the gamblers, the fortune-tellers, the clairvoyants, and the disreputable 



APPENDIX. 39I 

characters. Of course I shall be sorry to keep such company, but if it is 
the law of the State, I must submit to the inevitable. 

But even this is not enough for Chas. A. Dana, of the "New York Sun." 
In his newspaper, for years past, he has been writing articles and editorials, 
drawing the attention of the Legislature to the great evil of astrology, and 
urging that body to enact more stringent laws against the professors 
of that science. But in the -same articles he bewails the radicalism of the 
New York Legislature, and is afraid that they are too liberal to do their 
duty. In one instance he says: — " Whatever excuse the ancients had for 
their belief in astrology, there is no excuse for that belief at the present 
day." 

I have written replies to every article he has published against astrology, 
for the last ten years, and have taken pains that they should all be handed 
in to the chief editor of the " Sun," but he has never allowed one of my 
replies to be published. The "Sun shines for all," but only all on one 
side of a question, and that must be its own side. 

Is Charles A. Dana afflicted with periodical fits of insanity, or with 
the disease known to physicians as " Monomania ? " When persons are so 
afflicted, there is no knowing when their malady will become dangerous. 
At one time in his case, it shows itself in a violent hatred to astrology, 
which, to coin a new word, may be termed " Astro-Phobia." At another 
time it is a special animosity against the " Fraudulent President." Then it 
developes itself into a great dislike to "Gen. Grant.'' At another time 
it manifests itself in "Addition, Division, and Silence," and "Turn the 
Rascals out." Now it is incubating itself in the President's Cabinet, and 
the " Pan-Electric Telephone." But there is no knowing how soon it 
may switch on to astrology again, and then he will want more stringent 
laws against that science enacted. Therefore I give the New York Legis- 
lature due notice, and they must govern themselves accordingly. 

Some of Mr. Dana's attacks on astrology are ridiculous beyond con- 
ception. Of course those persons who read them, and do not know 
anything about the subject, cannot see where the laugh comes in. They 
remind me of an incident at Saratoga, some time ago. Seeing posters up 
on the walls stating there was to be a lecture, on a certain evening, 
against Free Masonry, and being in search of more light, I traveled East 
to hear the lecture. 

No one who is not a Mason can form any conception of what the 
lecturer had to say about the order> nor what ridiculous mistakes he 
committed — not knowing what he was talking about. One of the great 
objections he made against Masonry was that it was a "religion." He 
said the Masons believed in a " God," they had an Altar, a Bible, and 
a Hymn book, and if that was not a religion, he would like to know 
what was. Moreover it was a religion from which " women," " cripples," 
the "sickly," and "imbecile" were excluded, and he might also have 
added, that "Free Masons" excluded men like himself, who could not get 
a "Mason" to vouch for their "honesty," their "good moral character," 
and for their character as "good citizens." 

Is it not strange that men like the above lecturer, supposing them to 
have only one grain of common sense in their heads, should be going 



39 2 APPENDIX. 

from town to town making fools of themselves, and discoursing on 
subjects to people who are equally as ignorant as themselves ? 

Charles A. Dana and others who publish attacks on astrology, are on 
a par with this lecturer, and their articles are calculated only for persons like 
themselves, who are altogether ignorant of that science. " Hamlet " must 
have had such people as Mr. Dana and the aforesaid lecturer in his mind's 
eye, when giving directions to the " players," says : — " Though it make the 
unskillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve; the censure of 
which one, must, in your allowance, o'er weigh a whole theatre of others." 
Compared to listening to the lecturer in question, it is even a pleasure 
to read books which expose "Free Masonry, " as those authors sometimes 
know a little of what they are writing about. But I shall not say one 
word in defense of men who have, of their own free will, taken a most 
solemn oath not to reveal certain " secrets," and yet afterwards have 
broken that oath. Such men at least should not be admitted into the 
society of really honorable men and women. 

To prove how innocent people sometimes suffer, when legislatures com, 
mence to enact bad laws, and those laws are carried into effect, I need 
only refer to the reading of the Bible in the family, (a religious duty which 
a great many Christian people deem almost indispensable at the present 
day), but which was at one time regarded as one of the most heinous 
offences, and if detected was attended with the most severe punishment. 
I refer the reader to Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography, where he tells 
us that his forefathers used a Bible fastened under the seat of a four- 
legged stool, the leaves being held in their place by pack-threads ; and 
that when they wanted to turn a leaf over they had to slide it under the 
threads. When the family assembled to hear the reading of the Bible, 
one of them was stationed at some distance from the house, to act as 
" sentry," and to give warning of the approach of any stranger. If any 
one appeared, the stool was instantly replaced on its legs, and the family 
all looked as harmless as doves, as if they had been doing nothing 
wrong or wicked. Yet those innocent people had been committing one 
of the gravest crimes known to the law at that time, and if they had been 
detected in the act they would all have been consigned to the " rack," 
the " boot," or the " screw," or might even have been roasted alive. 

Of the real meaning of such terms as the rack, the boot, and the 
screw, we can form but a very slight conception at the present day, and 
it would take up too much space to describe the torture in these pages. 

As in Geology, we can often trace an unwritten history of the epochs 
and ages of the earth by noticing the strata, the rocks, and the fossils, so 
we can trace the unwritten history of the human race by noticing old 
ruins, pieces of pottery, medals, and ancient implements of war. We 
can also find evidence of religious persecution in old buildings, which 
likewise help us to decipher an unwritten history. Thomas Paxton 
Hood, in one of his books, gives an account of the tearing down of an 
edifice in the north of England. In the upper part of that building was 
found a small room, about three feet wide, between two solid walls, with 
a secret entrance thereto from above. On a table was found part of a 
candle, a flint, steel som/? tinder ar^ a Bible laid open. Who the owner 



APPENDIX. 393 

of those relics was, God only knows. But we can imagine an old man 
stealing into his little cubby-hole by a secret entrance, beginning to strike 
his flint and steel together until he procured a light, and then commencing 
to read his Bible, We can also see in our minds eye, the detectives dogging 
him at every turn, until at last they have got evidence sufficent to convict 
him ; and then he is lead ofi to be roasted alive in this world, so as to 
save him from an everlasting roasting in the world to come. And all for 
the awful crime of reading the Bible. 

If Charles A. Dana had been living in those days, no doubt he would 
have said that u whatever excuse the ancient Jews had for reading the 
Old Testament, and the early Christians for reading the New Testament, 
there is no excuse for their reading either at the present day;" and he 
would have used the columns of the "Sun" in advocating, and also in 
pressing upon the attention of the Legislature, the need of more stringent 
laws against the reading of the "Bible." No doubt he would bewail the 
liberalism of Parliament, which prevented the full accomplishment of a 
public duty. The worst of it is, when Legislatures commence to enact 
laws of this class, they never know where or when to stop. At first they 
might deem reading the Bible only a slight criminal offence, and enact a 
law making it a misdemeanor, and if any one was caught after that time 
reading the Bible, he would be consigned to the common jail for from 
three to six months. But if there happened to be a judge on the bench 
who was a 'rgoted Catholic, like Judge Gordon of Philadelphia, the 
prisoner mign:. then be convicted of a misdemeanor, and the judge, 
exceeding his authority, sentence the prisoner to a felon's cell, or the state 
prison. But still some people might continue reading the Bible, and of 
course Bible reading must be stopped at any cost. The Legislature goes 
on enacting more stringent laws, changing the crime of reading the Bible 
from a misdemeanor to a felony, and from a felony to a capital offence, 
punishable by hanging. Then, if that does not answer, they resort to the 
rack, the boot, and the screw. 

When they have commenced to make laws against Bible reading, it 
must be stopped at all hazards, and at any cost. But the worst of it is ; the 
best, the most noble, and generally the most intelligent men and women 
suffer and are exterminated, while the debased, the bigoted, and the ignorant 
are preserved to propagate their species. The reader may say I have been 
drawing on my imagination for the forgoing facts, but I can assure him I 
have been writing true history, and history that has occured in almost 
every Christian civilized nation in the world; and the great danger is, that 
history will repeat itself. But let us hope that the poet will not have to 
write for the present age what he has written for the past, where he says: — 

"They have used the rack, the boot, the screw. 

They have kindled high the martyr's fire; 
All has been done, that fiends could do, 

By malice, sophistry or ire; 
They have burn't the books where truth was laid, 

They have sunk the writers dungeon deep, 
They have brought a thousand things to aid, 

To keep the glorious truth asleep." 



394 APPENDIX. 

As one of the almost inspired writers says: — "Truth is mighty and 
must prevail." For that is a fixed law of nature, "Truth crushed to 
earth," though it may remain crushed for ages, " will rise again." 

I will now give a short account of a few persons who have become 
interested in astrology, and who have also studied it as a science and labored 
hard in its cause, and who therefore ought to know something of its truth 
or falsity. Over twentjt years ago, a man that I was slightly acquainted 
with, came into my office, at 814 Broadway, New York, and after he 
sat down, he looked around in astonishment at my library, and exclaimed, 
" Why, you do not believe in Astrology ! " 

Afterwards I engaged that man as an amanuensis, and to read lectures 
on astrology for me in public, as he was a very good writer and speaker. 
He also became a student of mine, studied astrologv, took great delight 
in it, and made rapid progress in the science. After he had remained with 
me some two years, we parted, and not good friends. 

But in going around talking about me to his friends, (and those friends 
came afterwards and reported it to me), he said : "Dr. Broughton is the 
best man I ever met in all my life, and 1 would sooner believe the Doctor's 
statement on any subject whatever, than I would any other man I ever 
knew, under oath." 1 have inserted the above to show, when astrologers 
fall out, the kind of Billingsgate language they use against each other ; and 
with what black colors they paint each others pictures ; and what dirty 
linen they wash before the public. 

I am sorry that Prof. Chaney, (for that is his name), used such harsh 
language about me. But as Mr. Chaney is a hasty, hot headed man, he 
spoke it no doubt in one of his excited moments; and as it is near 
twenty years since the above sentence was uttered, he probably has had 
time to cool down, and would no doubt now use more sober language 
when talking about me to his friends. Should Mr. Chaney and I not 
become reconciled in this world, let us hope that our friendship will be 
renewed in that "summer land" beyond the grave, unless it be true, — as 
almost every person believes, even up to the present day, that when a 
man or woman commences studying astrology, the first thing they do is to 
sell their souls to the devil. If that be the case, no doubt the devil will 
hold us both to the "contract," and Mr. Chaney may pass the remainder 
of eternity in upbraiding me, as being the cause of his having to spend 
life everlasting in that warm climate, the devil's abode. 

Tf Judge Gordon and the District Attorney of Philadelphia, could 
only have got some astrologer like Mr. Chaney to lay bare the character 
of Mr. Romaine, and could then have got some other astrologers to 
"squeal " about astrology, as the boodle ex- Aldermen Fullgraff and Duffy 
did about dividing the "boodle;" then, although Mr. Romaine could 
only be convicted of a misdemeanor, Judge Gordon might, in that case, 
verv easily have passed sentence on him for a capital offence, and consigned 
him to the gallows. 

When I was a little boy, a gentleman named Israel Holdsworth, one 
day came round getting orders for books to be delivered in parts, or 
numbers. He came to our weaving shop, where my oldest brother was 
weaving, and showed him a copy of a book on astronomy. While my 






APIENDIX. 395 

brother was looking over it, Mr. Holdsworth made the remark that 
" Astronomy was a beautiful science, but was nothing to be compared to its 
sister science Astrology." My brother was taken completely by surprise, 
but wishing to question Mr. Holdsworth further, he said: — "Why, do 
you believe in the nonsense of Astrology?" But he soon found Mr. 
Holdsworth did not even know the first principle of the science. 

Mr. Holdswoith afterwards took lessons in astrology from my brother, 
and they became fast friends. He also brought a number of other 
students, and they formed an " Astrological Society," and Mr. Holdsworth 
drew up the rules and by-laws for it. This astrological society was not 
the only society of the kind in the northern part of England. There 
was another one that my cousin William Broughton, W. J. Simmonite, 
Mr. Haywood, and a number of others whose names I have forgotten 
were members of. I believe they met once a week. Their method of 
procedure was that a member would give out a time of birth, and the 
sex. For example: — a male, born Jan. 25th, 1840, at 1:10 p. m., Leeds, 
England. That would be all they had to go by. It was understood that 
the child was remarkable for some particular thing, such as a violent 
death, being crippled, or some special mental or bodily quality. Each 
member of the society had to write an essay on the childs nativity. He 
had not only to find out what the child was particularly noted for, from 
its time of birth, but also if it would die a violent death. They must 
state what particular kind of death, arid at what age the death would 
occur. A number of those nativities which were the most correctly 
written were published, and the names of the writers given, in a monthly 
periodical called the "Scientific Messenger." 

We proposed carrying out that idea in the Astrological Society of the 
city of New York, (of which I was President). 

At that time a complete set of back years Ephemerides, or Almanacs, 
could not be bought at any price. I remember the time when Mr. 
Holdsworth came to consult my father about republishing a complete set 
of back Ephemerdes, commencing with the year of 1800 to the year 1850. 
My father made the calculations for him, how many might be sold in 
Great Britain and Ireland, and Mr. Holdsworth estimated how much the 
printing and binding would cost. 

The result was that the 50 vears Ephemerides were reprinted. It was 
a "labor of love " on Mr. Holdsworth's part, which cost him and his wife 
five years of hard work. They kept a book store in Leeds, and lived 
near by ; and while one was attending store, the other was setting the type 
for the Ephemerides. In that way they kept on until it was completed. 

At the time Mr. Chaney left me, the 50 yzars Ephemerides was out of 
print. He set to work to reprint it, and continued it from 1800 to the 
year 1877. When completed, he kindlv sent me a copy for myself, 
and also sent one for my oldest son ; and we sold for him several copies 
at $35 each. 

No person who does not understand Astrologv and Mathematical 
Astronomy, can have anv idea of the amount of labor it cost to calculate 
back for 50 or 100 years, the Longitude, Latitude, and Declination of the 
Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and the planet Uranus, to 



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the degree and minute for each day in the year ; and also the Longitude, 
Declination and Right ascension of the Sun, in degrees and minutes for 
every day for that length of time. 

One reason why the work was so long and tedious for Israel Holdsworth, 
was that he could only procure old almanacs, published by different authors, 
and he had to rearrange the whole, for the 50 years; besides calculating 
the Longitude and Latitude of Uranus entirely, for the whole fifty years, 
as it had never before been calculated. 

Mr. Holdsworth in his "Preface " says: — "The scarcity and high price 
of Ephemerides for past years has been deeply regretted by astrologers 
generally. Hence, several attempts have previously been made by different 
parties, but after printing one or two years, they have all abandoned the 
attempt as too ponderous, or too hazardous a speculation." 

Mr. Holdsworth, in some of his calculations had Mr. W. J. Simmonite, 
who had an academy in Sheffield, England, assist him. Mr. Simmonite, 
I think, was the most learned and gentlemanly astrologer that England 
ever knew. He spoke, wrote, and taught eight different languages ; besides 
being a thorough scholar and mathematician. He published a number of 
astrological works. His "Arcana of Astrology " will be a master-piece 
of that science for hundreds or thousands of years to come. Mr. Chaney, 
who republished the Ephemerides, prided himself on his knowledge of 
Mathematics, and also on having surveyed large tracts of land for the 
U. S. Government in the far West. He had also been an editor of daily 
newspapers for years. By profession he was a lawyer, and he had been 
District Attorney in Iowa, and in Bangor, Maine. 

Mr. Chaney's work in republishing the 50 years Ephemerides was not 
anything so laborious as that of Israel Holdsworth, as it was simply a 
reprint ; though, as be says: — " with over four hundred errors corrected." 
But from 1850 to 1877, ne would have most of the work to rearrange, 
and would be obliged to make many calculations. But possibly it may 
be best to let Mr. Chaney speak for himself. 

In his " Preface," he says : — " So scarce have Ephemerides for past 
years become, that they cannot be had for any sum." That was his excuse 
for republishing them. In regard to his labor, he says: — "I will say in 
conclusion, that I have toiled very hard the past year and a half, setting 
type and reading proof, with my mind on a constant strain to detect an 
error. For months in succession, Sunday as well as week days, I have 
made an average of fifteen hours daily labor." 

Had Mr. Chaney, and Israel Holdsworth, been engaged in Christian 
work, and labored as hard in converting the heathen, no doubt in this 
world their name would have been added to the Calendar of Saints, and 
in the world to come they would wear an everlasting crown of glory. 
But as they have only been engaged in the work of teaching and spreading 
the science of astrology, they have received nothing but persecution in 
this life, and in the life to come, they will be kept warm by an everlasting 
fire, fumigated with a large percentage of brimstone, and will be enter- 
tained with music consisting of weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth. 

While on the subject of Ephemeris, I ought to mention that Raphael, 
of London, England, has also republished a complete set of Ephemerides 



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from the year 1 800 up to the present time ; which set is the most complete 
that has ever been issued in modern times. 

The planet Neptune was discovered in September, 1846, and, previous 
to that date, astrologers had no knowledge of the Longitude of that 
planet. Consequently they could not calculate its effects in nativities, for 
persons born before 1846. 

A friend of mine asked a gentleman employed in the astronomical depart- 
ment, under the U. S. Government, to calculate Neptune's position from 
the year 1800 to 1850. I cannot do better than give that gentleman's 
own words. He says: — "The positions of Neptune, between the year 
1800 and the discovery of the planet in Sept. 1846, have never previously 
been computed, and what I have now prepared is the Longitude for the 
first and middle of each month for fifty years. For any other planet the 
work would have been comparatively easy. But as Neptune became 
known only in 1846, its previous path could only be discovered by special 
calculation, based upon what is now known of its orbit." 

The number of text-books on astrology, published at the present day, 
is astonishing. There never was a time since the world began, when. 
there were such facilities for studying astrology and becoming familiar 
wich that science. The circulation of English Astrological Almanacs, even 
in the United States at the present day, is really wonderful. Over twenty 
years ago, when Mr. Mason Hill started from California and had an order 
to buy Raphael's Ephemeris for that year, there was hardly one to be had 
in any store in the United States, from California to the borders of Maine, 
except those that I imported. At the present day one store in Boston 
sells more than three thousand of Raphael's Ephemeris every year, and 
has been doing the same for a number of years. 

Twenty five years ago my friends used to tell me that when I was dead 
astrology would be dead also, as there would be no one left who under- 
stood the science ; but if we may judge by the signs of the times, when 
I am dead astrology will then begin to live. Any person who has not 
given special attention to this matter would be astonished at the amount 
of literature published at the present day on astrology, in addition to a 
great number of Astrological Almanacs, which have over 500,000 circula- 
tion in England and the United States every year. 

"The Prognostic Star Gazer," a periodical published in Boston, Mass. v 
also "The Dreamer," published in the Western States, are both inclined 
to astrology. "The New York Sunday Mercury," has devoted a column 
every week, for years, to astrology. "The New York Waverley " devotes 
two columns every week, and the " Elmira Tidings " also devotes a 
column every week. And astrological literature in all English speaking 
countries was never more sought after and bought up than at the present 
day. In England there are astrological works published every few months 
for instructing people in that science. And within a very few years any 
person totally ignorant of astrology (a state of mind which people have 
specially prided themselves upon of late years), will hardly be tolerated 
in learned and polite, society. And then that condition of things will 
arrive when there will be too many people who will seriously object to be 
sent to prison for studying or practicing astrology, the same as there 



9.') 8 APPENDIX. 

were found too many people who seriously objected to being hung or 
roasted alive, for being heretics or witches. 

Is it not strange that the followers of a religion which was ushered into 
the world some two thousand years ago, with the "glad tidings of peace 
on earth and good will towards men," have ever since that time, whenever 
they have been in the majority, always commenced to imprison, hang, 
and roast people alive, who were so unfortunate as to be in the minority ; 
and, for no other reason than that they were in the minority. 

Orthodoxy has always been the "doxy " of the majority, and heterodoxy 
has always been the "doxy " of the minority. If we read English History, 
or, for that matter, the history of any of the Christian nations, we find 
that whenever by the fortunes of war a change of kings or queens occurred, 
the religion which was formerly in the minority (or heterodoxy), instantly 
changed into orthodoxy, and the orthodoxy changed into heterodoxy, 
and all those who were heterodox had to surfer, like prisoners of war in 
barbarous nations, until they were in power again, when the turn came 
again for the former to be imprisoned, hung, or roasted^ 

Regarding my ancestors and myself, a few words may be interesting. 

My maternal grandfather, Benjamin Scott, resided in Wakefield, York- 
shire, England ; his parents died when he was very young, and he made 
his own way in the world ; becoming a woolen cloth manufacturer. He 
was a Jacobite in politics, and suffered much for his support of the 
" Pretender." My paternal grandfather, Luke Broughton, was a disciple 
of Nicholas Culpepper. He studied astrology, along with the botanical 
practice of medicine, and practiced both for many years. In early life 
he was a manufacturer of cloth. In politics he was a " Tom Painer," the 
object of which faction was to force an extension of the voting franchise, 
it being at that time in the hands of property owners only. In that part 
of England there were over four thousand men who met on moonlight 
nights to drill on the moors and commons, with the idea of fighting for 
what they considered their rights. My grandfather was secretary for the 
companies in his locality, and kept the books of their meetings, with all the 
names of the members. The government tried in every way to break 
up these organizations, and to this end the Earl of Cardigan sent for my 
grandfather and told him the government had their spies, and knew all 
about their meetings and drilling, and the Earl offered him a large sum in 
gold, with a position under the government as long as he lived, and a 
similar position for each son on coming of age, if he would give up 
the books and leave the organization. My grandfather's reply was that 
he could not be bought. The result was that a warrant was issued, on 
the charge of treason, and my ancestor was a fugitive for over ten years, 
seeing his family only at rare intervals, and then at night. He had so many 
faithful friends, who kept a sharp look out for government spies, that he 
was never caught ; but his property was confiscated, his business destroyed, 
and his family reduced almost to poverty. In the latter part of his life 
he received a small pension from the government, it being recognized that 
the persecution was far in excess of the offense. On account of the 
persecution of my grandfather, my father and his brothers had little to 
do with politics, yet my father came near ending his days on the gallows. 



APPENDIX. 399 

About 1820, the government was determined to crush out all the 
leaders of reform. It employed spies to go round to entrap all such, by- 
getting them to sign a paper which could be construed into treason. In 
that part of England twenty eight signed the paper; they were tried, 
convicted, and all hung on one day. My father was approached, and 
would have signed it, if it had not been for his father, who gave as a 
reason that he had suffered so much for politics, that he objected to his 
sons meddling in such matters. This prevented my father signing it, and 
being added to the number. 

In 1831 and 1832 the people held county meetings all over England, 
in favor of the extension of the franchise, and the government, to avoid 
a revolution, granted it. The franchise has since been gradually extended, 
until now there is almost universal suffrage. If it had not been for such 
men as my grandfather driving the entering wedge, the people of England 
would have remained in a condition similar to that of the people of 
Russia to-day. 

My father was the second of three sons, and with his elder brother 
studied medicine, spending a long period at the Leeds Infirmary ; he 
studied astrology and made use of it in his practice of medicine, but 
never made a business of it, though he had many students, among whom 
was the late Thomas Lister of New York, and formerly of Boston. My 
uncle, Dr. Mark Broughton, was a noted physician and surgeon, and used 
astrology in his practice, which practice was larger than any other doctor's 
in that part of England. My aunt, Martha Broughton, was an adept in 
the science. 

My father married Mary Scott, the only child of Benjamin Scott, before 
mentioned, and had a family of six children, Mathew, Mark, Luke, John, 
William and Rachel. The first three, which included myself, studied 
astrology, and continued to use it, both as a business and in private life. 
My brothers, Mathew and Mark, were expert mathematicians and skilled 
astrologists ; they came to America a few years before I did, and both 
practiced astrology in Philadelphia. My brother Mark published a 
monthly periodical for many years, called "The Horoscope;" also an 
''Astrological Ephemeris." 

Probably the incident which had the most influence in drawing me to 
the science of astrology, was the truthfulness of a prediction made by 
my father in my horoscope. On account of so many of the planets 
being afflicted in mute signs, he remarked at my birth, to my mother, 
that I should not commence to talk till I was about six years of age, and 
then imperfectly, with an impediment in my speech, till I reached my 
nineteenth or twentieth year, when I should speak as well as the average 
person. This prediction was absolutely true, and during my earlier years 
no one but the members of our family could understand anything I said. 
Many physicians examined my mouth and larynx, and the diagnoses of 
the cause of my impediment of speech were as various as the doctors. 
When I reached my twentieth year, my speech had gradually become 
natural, and I have since spoken in public. 

I commenced to study astrology when I was about eighteen, and have 
continued in its light ever since. I married at twenty-four, and came to 



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America two years later; having served my time at weaving, and spent a 
few years in a chemical laboratory. I settled in Philadelphia, where I 
graduated at one of the medical colleges and remained about eight years, 
coming to New York in 1863.* I have always made use of astrology in 
the practice of medicine, which has been very extensive. 

My great desire to spread the truths of astrology induced me in 1866 
to lease a large hall at 814 Broadway, for the purpose of giving lectures 
upon this and kindred subjects. For some years previous I had issued 
a journal, called "The Monthly Planet Reader," and with these means 
at hand, I believed astrology would soon reach that position for which 
my ancestors and myself had labored so long and faithfully. I mis- 
calculated the time, though ; the spirit of liberalism was still dormant, 
and the powers of the religious sects were in too great command of the 
minds of the people ; and although my lectures gave great satisfaction, and 
were well attended, the cloven foot was soon made apparent. In the 
same building was the headquarters of a political organization, called the 
Mozart Hall, which was made up of the Catholic element of the city, 
and when the object of my meetings became known to its leaders, the 
whole power of the political machinery was put in motion to crush me. 
My landlord wanted me to give up my lease, and when I refused, said he 
would force me out ; after that I was subjected to all the annoyances 
both great and small which it was in the hands of the powerful to inflict 
upon the weak. My signs at the door were stolen, missiles were thrown 
down the stairs during the time when people were coming to the lectures ; 
men were sent to roll boxes on the floor above my hall to interfere with 
the speakers, the owner of the building from whom I leased was caught 
several times stealing my signs, and when arrested would be immediately 
discharged on reaching the station house, because of his political power ; 
the only man who did lock him up was Capt. Alex. S. Williams, who also 
locked up the son-in-law of the landlord on a charge of disorderly con- 
duct, made by my assistant, Mr. W. H. Chaney ; Mr. Chaney was arrested 
for this on a charge of false imprisonment, and spent six months in 
Ludlow Street Jail, being unable to procure bail. My wife's health and 
my own being broken down, having buried a very dear child, and being 
almost ruined financially I gave up the struggle and moved from the 
place much dissatisfied, and with a poor opinion of the so-called justice 
meted out to those not having political influence in New York City. 

I have in the twenty years which have elapsed since that time, practised 
astrology in conjunction with medicine, and have three sons and a 
daughter ; three of whom will become astrologers ; and while they may 
not practice it for a living, they will teach it ; so that there is no danger 
of astrology dying out during another generation at least. 

* As an illustration of ignorance resulting in petty persecution, I might mention that at the 
college where I graduated, they organized that winter, an Alumni Association. I was elected one 
of the board of Censors, and signed all the Diplomas, but afterwards when the members dis- 
covered that I had studied astrology, nothing would do, but that I must resign, a new Censor was 
elected in my place, all the Diplomas destroyed, and new ones made out, without an astrologer's 
signature. A petty persecution occurred to me before I left England. At the church I attended I was 
a teacher in the Sunday School, and taught writing, drawing, phonography and arithmetic in a night 
school supported by the church ; I was also librarian, all without compensation. When it became 
known that I was studying astrology, I was told I must give up astrology or resign my positions. I 
resigned. 



APPENDIX, 4OI 

Prof. RICHARD A. PROCTOR ON ASTROLOGY. 



In the "New York World" of February 6th, 1887, appeared the 
following article by R. A. Proctor, a popular lecturer on Astronomy. I 
wrote an answer and sent it to that paper, but the editor refused to 
publish it ; I shall insert it after Mr. Proctor's article, and following will 
be found my criticisms on Mr. Proctor and the World. 

As the press is closed against anything in favor of Astrology and 
Astrologers, even when in reply to personal attacks, and as the reader has 
already seen that it was impossible to give public lectures on that science 
in a city like New York, even though we had a long lease of the hall, 
and it was entirely under our control for that purpose, there is no other 
resource but to publish in circular, pamphlet, or book form, everything 
we desire to place before the public to represent truthfully the Astrologer's 
side of the argument. It may be very difficult for the reader to believe 
that a number of printers have actually refused to print any literature on 
Astrology, even though they were certain of their money, they believing 
it to be wicked to print such work. 

THE HUMBUG OF ASTROLOGY. 

PROF. RICHARD A. PROCTOR SHOWS UP THE ALLEGED SCIENCE. — A BELIEF 
THAT HAS CLUNG TO THE WORLD FOR AGES. — HOW THE WISE MEN OF 

OLD WERE DECEIVED. A REFUGE NOW FOR IGNORANT CHARLATANS AND 

KNAVES. — GROWTH OF AN UNREASONABLE AND FOOLISH SUPERSTITION. 

I am often as/£ed, but especially after some notorious astrological charlatan 
has been exposed, whether it is after all so certain that astrology, universally 
regarded in old times as a true science, is altogether vain and delusive. Can 
it be, many have said to me, that all the wise men of past ages, those to whom 
we attribute so many of the beliefs that to this day we hold sacred, can in 
this matter of astrology have been wholly deceived ? Not only among all the 
leading races of antiquity, and in all the chief civilized nations, but during 
periods of time such as no other faith can boast of having swayed, men held 
firmly to the belief that the stars in their courses foretell, nay, rule, the for- 
tunes of men. The cuneiform inscriptions of Assyria, the hieroglyphs of 
Egypt, the most ancient records of Persia, India and China, agree in showing 
that of old all men believed the sun and moon, the planets and the stars, to 
be as 

Radiant Mercuries, 
Carrying through ether in perpetual round 
Decrees and resolutions of the god. 

Nay, throughout the long period, to be measured by thousands of years, when 
all men held this belief, the most part held what anciently had been the belief 
of all, that the sun and moon and all the host of heaven are not merely the 
exponents of the wills of the gods, but are actually as gods themselves. To 
this day not only are all languages permeated by the expressions, belonging 
to the old astrological teachings, but all the feasts and fasts of the religions 
of our age, purified though they have long been from Sabaistic beliefs, attest 
in the clearest way, to the astronomer, their origin in Sabaistic observances. 
To this day, Christians and Jews, Buddhists and Mahommetans, regulate their 



4-02 APPENDIX. 

yearly ceremonial by the solstices arH equinoctial passages of the sun, and 
the weekly renewals of religious observances were derived originally from the 
moon's motions and were determined by the moon when "new" in her "first 
quarter," "full" in her "third quarter," and "new "again. Among the Jews 
and Mahommetans indeed the "new moon " observances and those which 
formerly attended the rising and setting of the sun are still retained. As- 
trology, the outcome of those Sabaistic beliefs which were once universally 
prevalent, had a most respectable origin, and if common opinion could prove 
any doctrine just, astrology must, it should seem, have been based on truth. 
Why, then, should it now be held only worthy of belief by the ignorant and 
silly, and be maintained as true only by rogues and charlatans. 

The answer is found in the very circumstances under which of old astrology 
was believed in. The astrologers of old times were for the most part nut 
only honest men, but men moved by strong religious emotions. They were 
also by no means wanting in reasoning power. As I pointed out long since 
in my article on "Astronomy" in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, astrology 
was based on reasoning in old times, and on reasoning which seemed sound 
and sufficient; it was no mere superstition, and as it was based on reasoning 
and its supporters honestly explained their reasons for the faith that was in> 
them, we are able not only to understand and in some degree appreciate their 
doctrine, but also to recognize its utterly groundless nature. 

Thev saw that the sun ruled unmistakably over the day and the year, and 
they recognized clearly, though they could not explain the matter as science 
now explains it, that the sun is the life of the earth and of all things in it. 
Day after day he renewed his victory over Night and brought all things to 
life after the sleep Night had brought on them. Year after year he renewed 
his victory over Winter, and brought life into field and forest, so that food and 
nourishment were provided in due season for men and animals. None could 
doubt that this orb at least ruled over the fates and fortunes of men and 
nations. The moon seemed scarcely less obviously a ruling or controlling 
orb. Even among nations, if such there were, who had never either observed 
her influence on the tides or heard of it from others, she seemed to have 
special power. She ruled the night, she measured time for them (nine-tenths 
of the ancient names of the moon indicated her as "The Measurer," the rest 
of her names, as Selene, Luna, &c, relating to her light), and pastoral races 
blessed her as the orb most beneficial, in their belief, to all orders of herdsmen. 
Can we wonder if, when two of the planets, for the sun and moon were two 
of the seven planets of ancient astronomy, having thus been recognized as 
unquestionably ruling men's fortunes in specific ways, the ancients believed 
that so also must the other seven? And knowing, as we do, how prone half 
knowledge is to fall into full assurance of faith, can we marvel if ancient 
astronomers learned to assign special influence to Mercury and Venus, to 
Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, on the strength of what seemed to them sufficient: 
indications of the specific powers which those planets possessed? We find 
that they certainly did this; and we can trace quite easily the line of thought 
bv which they were led to their ideas respecting the good or bad, the beneficent 
or the malign influences which the planets in their belief exerted. 

Thus what could be more natural than that Venus, the most beautiful of 
all the planets to the unaided vision, should have been chosen as the planet 
of love? Never seen save on the twilight sky, growing more beautiful when 
she is an evening star as twilight deepens, while as a morning star she " faints in 
the light that she loves, the light of the daffodil sky," she is the apt emblem, 
the Cytherean goddess, ruler over love and courtship. And because of her 
beauty Venus was naturally regarded as a favorite planet — she was the "Lesser 
Good Fortune," as Jupiter was the greater. Nor was it less natural that 
Mercury, so hard to detect with the unaided eye, that many astronomers now 



APPENDIX. 4.0 '; 

living have never seen the planet except through a telescope, should be 
regarded as the planet ruling over all professions and occupations which 
require craft and subtlety. Neither good nor bad fortune could be assigned 
to a planet so seldom seen— though when seen in the skies of Chaldea, Egypt, 
and Greece (as in those of America, by the way) Mercury shines with 
specially resplendent lustre, insomuch that the Greeks knew him a=> the 
Sparkler. What planet but the ruddy Mars could reasonably be regarded as 
ruling over war and battle? Seen at longer and less regular intervals than 
any other planet, shining with variable but always with portentous lustre, Mars 
seemed like the torch of war, waved by the hands of Fate over the nations. 
Naturally, too, outside his character as planet of war, Mars was regarded as 
of evil influence 5 as Venus was the Lesser Good Fortune, so Mars was the 
"Lesser 111 Fortune," Saturn being the greater. Jupiter's wide circuit and 
steady light, even surpassing that of Venus in splendor, because seen in the 
night, whereas hers is visible only in the twilight, suggested power and steady 
rule for good. So also did his wide orbit, or rather his long period, for of his 
distance the old astronomers knew nothing. Mars is longer unseen than 
Jupiter, but the period of Mjrs's circuit round the star sphere is much shorter, 
and therefore the old astronomers assigned Jupiter a wider orbit, (or, as they 
expressed it, a higher sphere), and greater power s To the gloomy Saturn, 
most beautiful of all planets in the telescope, but saddest and most baleful to 
ordinary vision and moving still more slowly, in such sort that while Jupiter 
takes less than twelve he takes nearly thirty years in circuiting the star 
sphere, yet greater power, but even more malign influence, was as naturally* 
assigned. 

Having thus decided on the special influences of their seven planets, the 
ancients readily formed a svstem by which^as t-hey supposed, the action of 
those influences on the fortunes of men and nations might be determined. 
When they had also learned how to calculate the positions of the planets for 
any length of time in advance, they believed they had obtained full power 
of predicting the fortunes of each man, so soon as, having calculated the 
aspect of the heavens at his nativity, they had learned which planets were 
most potent in their influence on his fortunes. And with this power of pre- 
diction came some power of favoring good fortune and preventing evil 5 in 
other words, of ruling as well as reading the planets. 

But the very circumstance that astrology, though a superstition, was a very 
natural and even reasonable superstition in those old days, shows what an 
unreasonable and foolish superstition it is now. The very fact that the old 
astrologers were for the most honest, though mistaken, proves that the 
astrologer of to-day must necessarily be a rogue and a charlatan. For now 
men know how the sun and the moon produce their effects ; they know why- 
Mercury seems shifty, and Venus lovely; how Mars comes to look red and 
Jupiter bright and Saturn yellow. That a ruddy or ochre tinge in the con- 
tinents of Mars, never less than forty millions of miles from us, should have 
anything to do with war and turmoils on the earth, is an idea which none but 
persons of very weak mind could for a moment entertain. That because 
Venus travels inside the earth's track, and, therefore, can only be seen during 
twilight, the loves of our boys and girls, our young men and maidens, aye, 
and of our men and women who have passed the days of youth, must be 
influenced by that sister world, never less than 26,000,000 miles from us, is a 
thought too preposterous to need contradiction. And so with the splendor 
of Jupiter, the gloom of Saturn, and the swift movements of Mercury. The 
"astrologers" of to-day either know all this and make a lying pretense of 
believing in planetary influences, or they are ignorant of it all and make lying 
pretense to knowledge. Be the case how it may, they must of necessity be 
lying knaves. 



4O4 APPENDIX. 

It is the same nowadays with all orders of fortune-tellers, character readers, 

phrenologists et id genus omne. Nothing but the ignorance which mistook 

itself for knowledge in the wise old timee, could justify the claims put forward 

by men of these classes. In our day there can be none who believe they 

know how to read the stars, for those who alone know how to calculate the 

movements of the heavenly bodies, know that the supposed influences of 

these bodies were purely imaginary, and based on mere fanciful analogies. 

Among "astrologers'''' there is no more knowledge of astronomy than there 

is a knowledge of the physiology of the brain among "phrenologists. " The 

astrologer of old knew all the astronomy of his time} the astrologer of 

to-day has written himself down a charlatan, and is probably an unscrupulous 

rascal. 

Richard A. Proctor. 

After waiting three weeks and not noticing any reply to Richard A. 
Proctor, I wrote the following article and took it myself to the editor of 
the " World," and told him that about one year ago they had published 
a short communication of mine in favor of astrology, and that I had 
brought a reply to Mr. Proctor's article. But at the same time I said 
that possibly they, like the "New York Sun," publish only one side of 
a question. 

After keeping it a few days the article was returned to me with the 
following note : — 

Dear Sir : — I regret to say, that, owing to the pressure upon our space, the 
manuscript you kindly sent, has not been found available for the World's 
columns. It is therefore returned as you requested. Thanking you, I am, 
yours respectfully,* Jqhn a Cock£RILLj 

Managing Editor. 

The following is the article which the "World" refused, although they 
published Mr. Proctor's, which called all astrologers "lying knaves" and 
" unscrupulous rascals," and the reader ought to bear in mind that no 
astrologer had attacked Mr. Proctor's reputation or his standing in society. 



* A friend of mine, a publisher, who has been the editor of a daily newspaper, and who had a 
knowledge of Astrology, commenced an article in reply 10 Mr. Proctor, but on hearing that the 
" World " refused to publish mine, came to the conclusion that it was of no use finishing it. Another 
gentleman who is a physician in general practice, and has been a professor in two medical colleges 
in this city, and who has published a number of medical works, also has been the editor of a promi- 
nent medical journal for a number of years, and has a good practical knowledge of Astrology, told 
me that he would have replied to Mr. Proctor, if he did not feel positive that the " World " would 
not publish his reply, having committed themselves against Astrology; if they did publish it, he 
feared it would be so garbled that he would not be able to recognize it. 

I have been credibly informed that Mr. Elias Colbert, who is editor of the " Chicago Tribune," 
and who is a good astronomer and astrologer, had to sign a contract before he took his position as 
editor, that he would not even mention the word "astrology " in the "Tribune" All those persons 
whom I have talked to about Mr. Colbert, and who are personally acquainted with him, speak of 
him in the highest terms, both as a gentleman and a man of science. None of those persons even 
hint that he is either a " lying knave " or an " unscrupulous rascal." Mr. B. O Murray, an astrolo- 
ger and editor, and owner of a daily newspaper called the Dennison Gazetteer, Texas, and who has 
perhaps the largest astrological library in the world, sometimes mentions astrology favorably in his 
newspaper, but has to do it very gingerly, so as not to injure its circulation. 

Some years ago, on the death of a student of mine, Dr. Charles Winterburn, of this city, I 
wrote an article for the "Truth Seeker," giving an account of him as an astrologer and physician, 
and Mr. D. M. Bennett tod me that he received a number of letters from subscribers, threatening 
to withdraw their subscription, if any move astrology appeared in the "Truth Seeker." In this en- 
lightened age. we are inclined to believe that there is no prejudice or persecution of either science 
or religion, and that to meet with it, we must go among the barbarians, or search for it in the history 
of past ages ; but when the professor of one science calls all the professors of another science 
"lying knaves" and •■unscrupulous rascals," and the editors of the newspapers in which these 
slanderous attacks appear, refuse to publish any reply to such attacks, it looks as if history was 
repeating itself. 



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Mr. Proctor ought to remember the words of "Othello" where he 
says : — " He that filches from me my good name, robs me of that which 
not enriches him, but makes me poor indeed." I shall reserve my strictures 
both for the "World" and for Mr. Proctor, until the reader can judge 
of the refused article itself, by reading it. 

REPLY TO MR. PROCTOR. 

The article on "The Humbug of Astrology," in the "World" of February 
6th, 1S87, from the pen of so great an authority on astronomical matters as 
Richard A. Proctor, must carry with it so much weight that I fear many 
will not admit the possibility of there being another side to the question, and 
pass by any attempt to prove the contrary with a smile. Yet the position 
assumed by Mr. Proctor is not impregnable; as there have been as great men, 
even in modern times, if not greater, in the science of which he is an able 
teacher, who have held opposite opinions, on the science of astrology, to those 
which he promulgates. 

The article in question contains several peculiar assertions, and not a few 
ideas which, viewed from another standpoint, convey an altogether different, 
and a more logical conclusion ; and if we can allow prejudice to remain 
dormant, for a short time, and judge from an unbiased standpoint, we may 
with all due respect to Mr. Proctor differ with him, even in so far as to draw 
a different or even opposite deduction from his own words and arguments. 

Mr. Proctor says, " Can it be, many have said to me, that all the wise men 
of past ages * * * in this matter of astrology have been wholly deceived?" 
"Not only among all the leading races of antiquity, and in all the chief 
civilized nations, but during periods of time such as no other faith can boast 
of having swayed, men held firmly to the belief that the stars in their courses 
foretell, nay, rule the fortunes of men." Again he says: — "Astrology had 
a most respectable origin, and if common opinion could prove any doctrine 
just, astrology must, it should seem, have been based on truth. Why then 
should it now be held only worthy of belief by the ignorant and silly, and be 
maintained as true by rogues and charlatans ?" " The Astrologers of old times 
were for the most part not only honest men, * * * they were by no means 
wanting in reasoning powers," * * "Astrology was based on reasoning which 
seemed sound and sufficient." 

If Mr. Proctor's object had been to lay a firm and solid foundation for the 
science of astrology, I do not see how he could have chosen more logical and 
convincingarguments, and yet Mr. Proctor is so wilfully blind as not to see the 
force of his own words. But as the author of the "Vestiges of Creation," 
when speaking of his critics in his preface, says: — "It is no discredit to them 
that they are, almost without exception, engaged each in his own little department 
of science, and are able to give little or no attention to that vast field outside 
their department; all beyond is regarded with suspicion and distrust." This is 
a truth, and almost every man believes his own religion or science to be the 
only one that is right, and all the others wrong. Even in cases of men of the 
same profession, each man appears to travel in his own narrow groove, and 
thinks that men who travel in another path, to use Mr. Proctor's words, are 
"lying knaves" and "unscrupulous rascals." For instance, the allopathic 
physicians think that the homoeopaths are all dishonest in their practice of 
medicine, and vice versa. The anatomists, as a rule, do not believe in 
medicine, neither do the surgeons believe in aught but steel. Mathematicians 
rarely are metaphysicians, and many botanists do not have any faith in the 
medicinal effects of herbs and roots. Some persons are born with a natural 
tendency in some one direction, and sometimes it is as. the mind is trained; 



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some persons are practical, and some are theoretical, and they rarely admit 
that truth exists outside their own sphere. 

To the average person there appears but little difference between astronomy 
and astrology, the general conclusion being that they both have to do with 
the planets; and with those persons the opinion of an astronomer is taken on 
astrology, with full confidence in his ability to pronounce upon that subject. 
There cannot be a greater mistake. The astronomer's opinion on astrology 
is of no more weight than a botanist's opinion is on the action of herbs on the 
human system, if the botanist is not also a physician. Astronomy deals with 
numbers, and the inanimate laws of nature. The astrologer depends on the 
long continued observation of the effects of the positions and revolutions 
of the heavenly bodies on the earth and its inhabitants. Some of the most 
noted and learned men of the world have been astrologers. The great John 
Kepler, to whom the science of astronomy of the present day is so much 
indebted, was a firm believer in astrology. He made many discoveries in 
astrology, which are almost equal to those he made in astronomy. 

Baron Napier, to whom mathematicians are so much indebted for his mar- 
velous discovery of logarythms, used them solely to facilitate his astrological 
calculations. Flamstead, the first astronomer of the Greenwich Observatory, 
England, Placidus De Titus, Cardan, Galileo, Bishop Butler, and almost every 
astronomer of any note in the past, were firm believers and promoters of this 
science ; of which Mr. Proctor says: — "No one who understands astronomy 
believes in astrology. The old school doctors used to say that no person 
who understood anatomy, physiology, chemistry, and materia medica, believed 
in Homoeopathy. Yet Homoeopathy lives, and its practitioners are the most 
intelligent physicians of the present day. 

Is it not a strange assertion for Mr. Proctor to make, that all the ancients 
had upon which to base their belief in astrology, a belief which lasted for 
thousands of years, was the color of the planets ; that men who, Mr. Proctor 
says, had good reasoning faculties, would cling to a faith which was based on 
a mere fancied resemblance between the baleful hue of the light emitted by 
Saturn, and the dark forebodings of a person in despondency? 

This assertion on the part of a man who is altogether ignorant of astrology, 
to account for the faiths of persons who lived thousands of years ago, is 
rather impertinent, to say the least, when we have the books of those ancient 
astrologers, which teach the contrary. 

It is true that astrology had an honest parentage. Its cradle was the 
patient observation and experience of the greatest men of all past ages; its 
boyhood the books containing the experiences and observations of those men, 
and its manhood was the grandeur of its following and its hold upon their 
reason, and the facts and experience which went to confirm that reason. 

Astrology flourished for ages; and that its growth and power were great, 
is of itself proof that it was built upon the laws of nature. It continued 
in power and held its place until the middle of the seventeenth century, when 
the Protestant Reformation began to be established, (which religion was built 
upon faith and miracles, and ignored the laws of nature,) when it was sup- 
pressed by the religious sects of that period, and placed under the ban of the 
church, and astrologers were classed and persecuted among the witches and 
wizards. Since that time every form of divination has been condemned by 
every one without investigation, except a few followers. 

The assertion made by Mr. Proctor, that the reasons which made it pos- 
sible for men of past ages to believe in astrology are not reasons which can 
be accepted at the present day, is preposterous; and it is strange that any 
person outside of an insane asylum should make any such an assertion without 
proof. The laws of nature have not changed, the condition of our earth in 
its surroundings and its relations to the other planets of the solar system have 



APPENDIX. 407 

hot changed, the facts and observations upon which the ancients based their 
belief, are still the same. 

The Ptolemaic theory of astronomy, that the earth was in the centre of the 
universe, and that the sun went round the earth every day, which caused 
day and night, was wrong, but the discovery of the Copernican system of 
astronomy, did not alter the order of things on our earth, day and night, 
summer and winter, and every law of nature that existed previous to that 
discovery, remains the same to-day. Those observations and experiences, 
extending over thousands of years, which the ancients made in astrology and 
recorded in books, are truths which live to-day. 

The ancient practice of medicine was not overthrown by the discovery of 
the circulation of the blood; religion lived in all its purity, after geology was 
taught in our colleges, and astrology will live long after Mr. Proctor is turned 
to clay. 

I do not write this reply to Mr. Proctor to convert him to a belief in 
astrology, and no doubt he regards me as one of the modern heretics who 
ought to be either imprisoned or roasted alive. There has always been, and 
must always be, a difference of opinion on science and religion, in order that 
the world of thought should progress. When every person thinks and believes 
alike on every subject, and where dogmas and creeds are thrust down people's 
throats and no questions asked, then we shall revert back to the dark ages 
and to that conservatism that made this world a hell for Columbus, Galileo, 
and Copernicus, and all the other heretics either in science or religion. 

How much of positive science is known, even in our own enlightened age, 
that was not known to the ancients ? There is very little but theory, and 
theories which may be overthrown at any time, and yet Mr. Proctor, resting 
on so insecure a basis, calls all those who are so unfortunate as to differ from 
him "lying knaves" and "unscrupulous rascals." 

Astrology may be dead so far as Mr. Proctor is concerned, but he is not 
the whole world. There are hundreds of students in astrology in England 
and this country, and there are hundreds of thousands of firm believers 
in that science, and the number is constantly increasing. The Almanacs 
and Ephemeris published every year, by Raphael and Zadkiel of London, 
and which are purchased by the believers in astrology, number over half a 

L. D. Broughton, M. D. 

66 West 4th St., New York. 

The above is a copy of the article, with very slight changes in the 
wording, which the editors of the " World " refused to publish. Yet 
they published Mr. Proctor's " Humbug of Astrology," which stated 
"that the astrologer of to-day must necessarily be a rogue and charlatan." 
Consequently the astrologers of to-day, according to the ethics of the 
New York " World," must be tried, convicted and sentenced without 
being heard in the public press. 

This narrow bigotry resembles the intolerance that almost up to the 
present time prevails in the English Courts, where prisoners of the down- 
trodden Irish race are prevented from speaking in their own defence ; the 
officers of the court silencing them when attempting to testify. Such 
oppression frequently came to my personal knowledge, when a resident 
of Leeds, England. 

Had those prisoners been Russians, Prussians or Frenchmen, they would 
have been heard in their own defence, or the nations to which they 
belonged would have known the reason why, even if it led to a war. 



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Had Mr. Proctor published in the "World" an attack on all the 
physicians, or all the ministers, lawyers, or musicians, or indeed any other 
profession, ( but astrologers,) and called them all " lying knaves " and 
" unscrupulous rascals ;" and had the " World " refused to publish a reply 
to such falsehoods, and vituperations, even at the present day of intoler- 
ance, I cannot but think it would make a sensation, and the " World" 
itself would lose caste, especially among those persons who had received 
a liberal education and were inclined to freedom of thought, free speech, 
and fair play. This intolerance almost equals the Lord George Gordon 
riots, which were supposed to belong to the past ; but the reader has 
already seen what I have passed through in and for the cause of Astrology 
in the civilized city of New York, and near the present time. 

The Catholics of England, in 1778, petitioned the government to 
repeal certain unjust penal laws of long standing, which classed popish 
priests as felons or traitors; also the forfeiture of real estate by Catholic 
heirs educated abroad ; the power which was given to a son or nearest 
relation, being a protestant, of taking possession of a father's or other 
relative's estate, who had been Catholics ; the depriving papists of the 
power of acquiring landed property, &c. Parliament heard the petitioners 
and the repeal was granted. But instead of all classes in England and 
all religious denominations rejoicing and having bon-fires on account of 
the repeal of such barbarous and unjust laws, nearly 60,000 persons met 
in St. George's Fields, London, and walked in procession to Palace Yard, 
to give force to the remonstrance they were about presenting to Parliament 
against the repeal of the above laws. The prayer of the remonstrators 
being rejected, the mob headed by Lord George Gordon gave way to 
violence. The Catholic chapels and the prisons were forced and set on 
fire ; no less than thirty fires were to be seen blazing at one time. For 
five days the rabble had possession of London, and nearly five hundred 
persons were killed or wounded. 

I give the above to illustrate how much easier it is to enact than it is to 
repeal bad laws, when prejudice and ignorance are in the preponderance, 
and how unreasonable it was for Parliament to have enacted laws granting 
such unjust privileges and monopolies to such pious christian people as the 
Lord George Gordon rioters proved themselves to be. No doubt if 
there were efforts made to repeal the fortune-telling law of Pennsylvania, 
and to strike the corresponding clause out of the " Penal Code " of New 
York, Mr. Proctor and the editors of the "World" would be ready to 
head a riot to oppose such a repeal, 

Mr. Proctor says : — " In our day there can be none who believe they 
know how to read the stars, for those who alone know how to calculate 
the movements of the heavenly bodies, know that the supposed influences 
of those bodies were purely imaginary, and based on merely fanciful 
analogies." 

If Mr. Proctor had been laying a wager that he could tell the greatest 
falsehood, there might be some excuse for writing the above sentence ; but 
he has no more excuse than the Protestants had in the Lord George 
Gordon riots, in 1778, and it shows an equally vicious disposition on his 
part. 



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I suppose Mr. Proctor knows that for ages upon ages the words 
astronomy and astrology had very nearly the same meaning, and during 
all that time the calculations in the science of astronomy were made 
solely for the astrologer, and for him to make his predictions from ; or in 
other words the astronomers were the hewers of wood and drawers of 
water for astrologers, and the latter were always the advisers and privy 
counsellors of Kings, Emperors and Pharoahs in ancient times. 

When the science of navigation became more developed and better 
understood among mariners, these calculations were also made for sea 
captains who took long voyages, as well as for astrologers, and the two 
sciences, astronomy and astrology, gradually became separated. 

No doubt the navigator in ancient times made his own calculations in 
astronomy, but as navigation and astronomy were developed, the two 
gradually became separated. Yet the former is dependent on the latter 
for its gradual perfection, as the astrologer is dependent on the perfection 
of the science of astronomy for the accuracy of his predictions. 

In the dim ages of the past, even before the days of Hippocrates, the 
botanist and the practitioner of medicine were one and the same person, 
but as the science of medicine and surgery became more developed and 
extended in its application, and the science of botany progressed, and 
new herbs and plants were discovered, these two sciences gradually became 
separated ; and each student studied and extended his own favorite and 
special science. But the botanists of the present day do not call the 
physicians " lying knaves " and " unscrupulous rascals." The most learned 
botanist that I ever knew, who could tell almost every herb and plant 
which giew in the United States, when we were out together in the fields 
botanizing, often laughed at the very idea that those herbs and rjots 
could have any medicinal effect upon the human body. When travelling 
along together we often had this matter up for discussion, but it was 
imposible for me to convince him of his error as he had no knowledge 
of diseases or the method of treating them. Had he studied medicine, 
and had forty years practice, like myself, there would then have been no 
necessity of any argument to convince him of his error. 

Had that botanist called all physicians " rogues and charlatans," he 
would have manifested a want of good taste equal to that of Mr. 
Proctor, when he calls all astrologers by such names. He knew as 
much of the practice of medicine as Mr. Proctor knows of the practice of 
astrology, and the botanist also believed "that the supposed influence" 
of the herbs and roots on the human system was purely imaginary, 
and based on merely fanciful analogies, ( such as the signatures of herbs 
and roots of the ancients, and the supposed magical effects they had on 
the human system.) That belief of the ancients is no proof that herbs 
and roots, when they are administered at the present day, have no effect 
on the bodies of men or women ; on the contrary it is presumptive evidence 
that they not only have an effect now, but that they have always had an 
effect when so administered, from time immemorial, and will always 
continue to have an effect to the end of time. But the theories which 
attempt to account for these effects may change, and may continue to 
change from age to age. So the belief, for so many thousand years, of 



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the ancients, in the influence of the sun, moon and planets on men and 
nations, is presumptive proof that that belief was correct, and founded on 
the laws of nature ; and the reader will see in the pamphlet which follows 
these Introductory Remarks, that there is positive proof that the heavenly 
bodies do continue to influence men and nations, and indeed all mundane 
affairs. Instead of Mr. Proctor calling me and all other astrologers "lying 
knaves" and "unscrupulous rascals," and writing articles in the "World" 
about what the ancients "believed" or "imagined," I think it wnuld 
be more becoming in him, as a gentleman, to first produce some tangible 
evidence or proof of the falsity of astrology and the dishonesty of its 
professors. 

If we can believe the accounts in the New Testament, during Christ's 
time, in Palestine, the general belief was, that when any person was sick, 
or afflicted bodily, it was produced by evil spirits or devils entering that 
diseased person's body ; and if they could succeed in casting these devils 
out, the diseased person instantly became well, and could take up his bed 
and walk. What the people believed in Christ's time, cannot be taken 
as proof that there are no diseases in the human family at the present day, 
but what are produced by evil spirits or devils entering the bodies of those 
diseased persons? Some .and of diseases have existed in the human family 
in all ages, and it is only the theory of the cause of those diseases which 
has changed? 

Why does not Mr. Proctor bring arguments to prove that all the 
diseases of the human body " were purely imaginary, and based on merely 
fanciful analogies," as the ancients believed that all those diseases were 
caused by evil spirits entering those diseased person's bodies? and even 
have the Bible on his side, because it is stated in it that there were persons 
who witnessed Christ casting out those devils and evil spirits, and the sick 
becoming well, and the spirits entering into swine ; and go on to show 
according to the scriptures that the doctor " of to-day must necessarily 
be a rogue and charlatan," and also that they are all u lying knaves " and 
"unscrupulous rascals?" He can bring much stronger arguments against 
the doctors, and have stronger reasons for calling them vile names, than 
he can possibly bring against astrology or astrologers. 

Mr. Proctor's " facts" and ''reasoning" not only apply to doctors and 
astrologers, but to almost every other profession that is practiced at the 
present day ; and I am not defending astrologers alone, but I am actually 
defending all other professional men from being called " lying knaves " 
and "unscrupulous rascals," even including Mr. Proctor himself. 

Let us take another illustration, to prove my assertion. There is 
about the same relation between acoustics and music, as there is between 
astronomy and astrology ; and it would be just as reasonable for Mr. 
Proctor to have said: — That all music was an ancient "superstition," 
and .that the musicians "of old times were for the most part not only 
honest men, but men moved by strong religious emotions," and that music, 
"though a superstition, was a very natural and even reasonable superstition 
in those old days, this fact shows what an unreasonable and foolish 
superstition it is now." "The very fact that the old" musicians "were 
for the most honest, though mistaken, proves that the" musician "of 



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to-day must necessarily be a rogue and a charlatan ;" as the ancients 
believed in the "music of the spheres," the singing of angels, and the 
magic charm: of sound, &c, &c. And the ancients had practically no 
knowledge of the science of acoustics, or not near as much as they had 
of astronomy. Consequently, according to Mr. Proctor's reasoning, ail 
the musicians of the present day must be much more ignorant of acoustics 
than the astrologers are now supposed to be ignorant of astronomy ; and 
he would also say that : — " Those who alone know how to calculate die" 
vibrations of sound, " know that the supposed " musical notes, " were 
purely imaginary, and based on merely fanciful analogies," and that the 
musician of to-day "must of necessity be a "lying knave" and an 
" unscrupulous rascal," as he could prove it by the science of acoustics. 
Mr. Proctor might with just the same reasoning and propriety have used 
all the above expressions against musicians, as he has against astrologers, 
although he might not have the least taste or skill for music himself, any 
more than he has for the science of astrology; in short he might not be 
able to perceive any difference when listening to the tunes of Yankee 
Doodle and Old Hundred. Yet music is built upon the science of 
acoustics, as astrology is buik upon the science of astronomy. 

I am aware that there is a vast difference between music and astrology, 
and between acoustics and astronomy, but bear in mind I have only used 
them as comparisons, and to show that the only way to prove or disprove 
the falsity of music is by music itself, and by music of the present day, 
and not by what the ancients knew about music, or by what they knew 
of the science of acoustics, or the calculation of sound vibrations. So 
the truth or falsity of astrology can only be proved or disproved by 
astrology itself of the present day, and not by what the ancients believed 
or did not believe about astrology, or the brightness, color, or quick 
movements of the planets, and Mr. Proctor may yet find that the 
astrologers of to-day know better how to calculate the movements of the 
heavenly bodies than he knows himself. 

When an astrologer erects a horoscope, or map of the heavens for 
any person's time of birth, he calculates the exact position of all the signs 
of the Zodiack on each of the cusps of the twelve houses, to the degree 
and minute, for the exact longitude and latitude of the place where the 
person was born. He also calculates the daily and hourly motions of the 
sun, moon, and of all the larger planets; also the longitude, latitude, 
right ascension, and declination of the moon, and seven of the larger 
planets, and the right ascension, declination, and longitude of the sun. 
Also the meridian distance, the semi-diurnal, or semi-nocturnal arcs; the 
oblique ascension or descension, and the distance from the preceding, 
or the succeeding cusps of the houses, of the sun, moon, and all the largei 
planets. When the astrologer has made all these calculations, he has 
has only laid the foundation, or drawn a speculum of the person's nativity ; 
and when all this is done, the main or most important part of his calcu- 
lations is yet to commence, such as the transits, (or the movements of 
the heavenly bodies, as Mr. Proctor calls them,) and the directions, both 
secondary and primary, and converse and direct, the parallels, and rapt 
parallels, &c, &c. Yet Mr. Proctor says (heaven save the mark!) that 



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the astrologer of to-day cannot calculate the movements of the heavenly 
bodies. I mean to say that if any person were to offer Mr. Proctor a 
million dollars to calculate a nativity properly, with all the transits and 
directions, and read it off, he could not do it, with all his pretended 
knowledge of the science of astronomy, and his " calculation of the 
movements of the heavenly bodies." I very much doubt whether he 
even knows the meaning of one half of the scientific terms which I have 
just used, let alone making the astronomical calculations referred to. 

It may be asked, why does Mr. Proctor make such statements about 
astrology and astrologers, when he knows them to be untrue. The fact 
of the matter is, Mr. Proctor is a Catholic, or at least a particular friend 
of mine, an editor, told me that he heard Mr. Proctor say himself that 
he was a Catholic, and he being of that religious denomination, like 
Judge Gordon of Philadelphia, regards all astrologers as criminals, even 
without a shadow of proof that they have committed any crime, either 
against God or man. 

In view of the fact that Mr. Proctor is a devotee of that most super- 
stitious of all Christian beliefs, that of the Church of Rome, the severity 
of his denunciation of superstition in his attack upon astrology is not 
a little singular. But what else could be expected from a votary of a 
church notoriously opposed to all progress and reform, a church that 
burned alive John Huss, (even when he had a safe conduct to his trial,) 
and also thousands of other good men and reformers, and which also 
perpetrated the terrors of the Inquisition. 

Is it not a little singular that astrologers are " lying knaves " and 
" unscrupulous rascals " only in Christian countries, and even in those 
Christian nations only within the last two hundred years ? In all other 
civilized countries, (and which cover more than three-fourths of the globe,) 
they have always been looked up to, and held in the highest esteem 
from time immemorial, even up to the present day. I shall bring some 
remarkable facts to prove this assertion in the volume which follows. 
And as Mr. Proctor says : — " The cuneiform inscriptions of Assyria, the 
hieroglyphs of Egypt, the most ancient records of Persia, India, and 
China, agree in showing that of old, all men believed the sun and moon, 
the planets and the stars, in their courses foretell, nay, rule the for- 
tunes of men." Is it not strange that in all those nations astrology is 
studied, even at the present day, by the most learned and intelligent 
people of those nations, and put to the test every day by thousands of 
people, and relied on as a science by hundreds of millions of people in 
their every day life, and has been for thousands of years; — that those 
people have never discovered that the astrologers are "lying knaves" 
and "unscrupulous rascals," while in Christian countries, where the prac- 
tice of astrology is almost a lost art, and out of the vast number who now 
treat this ancient science with supercilious ridicule, there is not one in a 
thousand who know distinctly what it is he laughs at, and yet astrology 
has sustained a most conspicuous part throughout the history of the world ? 
Are ignorance and want of practical experience the tests by which Christian 
people prove or disprove everything ? I will defy Mr. Proctor to find a 
single astrologer even in those Christian countries, who has had any practical 



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experience in that science, but what holds astrology in as high esteem as 
he, or any other astronomer holds astronomy. Does this not prove, as 
" Hamlet " says : — " There is something rotten in the state of Denmark?" 

But what is the cause of all this change in Christian nations, which, as 
Mr. Proctor says : — "proves that the astrologer of to-day must necessarily 
be a rogue and a charlatan?" Is it, as Mr. Proctor says: — "now men 
know how the sun and the moon produce their effects ; they know why 
Mercury seems shifty, and Venus lovely, how Mars comes to look red, 
and Jupiter bright, and Saturn yellow." 

Does Mr. Proctor or any other astronomer know all those things ? If 
he does, why is it not made known or published? I should like to be 
informed myself in all those matters. But the fact of the matter is, that 
those astrologers of old knew as much about those things as Mr. Proctor, 
or any other astronomer of the present day. The ancients had their 
theories about those " effects," and Mr. Proctor has only theories, which 
theories may be upset any day. But suppose we did "know how the sun 
and moon did produce their effects," or how "Venus looks lovely, Mars 
red, Jupiter bright, and Saturn yellow," (which I totally deny,) that would 
have nothing to do with upsetting the science of astrology. It might 
possibly help to explain some things we do not now understand, and, of 
course, place that science on a firmer foundation than it ever had before. 

If Mr. Proctor did not happen to know everything, and I was not 
" ignorant and silly," and a " rogue and charlatan," it might be possible 
for me to explain to him how astrology fell into disrepute in Christian 
nations, and more especially within the last two hundred years. But the 
reader of these Introductory Remarks may not be so wise and know every 
thing, like Mr. Proctor, and may possibly not be in the condition of the 
man whom Solomon speaks of, where he says : — "seest thou a man wise 
in his own conceit, there is more hopes of a fool than of him." And 
Solomon does not appear to have a very high opinion even of a fool, 
where he says : — " Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among 
wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him." 

Therefore as it may possibly be interesting for the reader to know how 
it came about, that astrologers who had been held in the highest venera- 
tion for thousands of years in all civilized nations, and have always been 
the counsellors and advisers of Kings, Queens, Emperors, Sultans and 
Pharoahs, have changed of late years in Christian countries into " ignorant 
charlatans," "lying knaves" and "unscrupulous rascals," I will endeavor 
to explain to the best of my ability, although it may not be very 
flattering to either Mr. Proctor, Judge Gordon, or even to those Christian 
nations which have enacted laws against astrologers and astrology. 

I shall divide these explanations into three parts or sections. 1st. The 
Christian Religion. 2d. The Reformation and Witchcraft. 3d. The 
change from the Ptolemaic system of astronomy to the Copernican system. 

First. — The Christian Religion. — The Christian religion was entirely 
unique at its commencement, nothing ever being like it before, or can 
he compared to it since. Its very inception was a miracle, and it appeared 
to consist of nothing but miracles, saints, and relics, for over a thousand 
years, and the laws of nature were entirely ignored by its followers, who 



414 APPENDIX. 

were a class of people entirely separated from their fellow beings, and 
who were a kind of a cross-breed between the socialist and anarchist of 
the present day, and if we can believe the New Testament, the laws of 
nature were either entirely suspended, or else they were terribly out of 
joint, and went limping along similar to a man with a long leg and a short 
one. The conception of Christ was a miracle. His birth was another. 
His whole life appeared to consist of nothing but miracles; such as 
turning water into wine, walking on the water, stilling the storm, feeding 
thousands with five loaves and two fishes, raising the dead, healing the sick 
with the touch, casting out devils, and even those devils talking to Christ 
after they were cast out, &c, &c. Christ's death was a miracle, and 
His resurrection, and His eating and drinking afterwards with his disciples, 
were all miracles, and His ascension into heaven was another miracle. 
Consequently such occupations as those of doctors, astronomers, astrologers, 
farmers, and even fishermen, who had to depend on the laws of nature in 
order to successfully carry on their business, were all played out ; but as 
the people could not continue to subsist upon miracles, or rather provi- 
sions miraculously produced, all those employments gradually came into 
use again. But as the early Christians believed that by praying to Christ, 
Virgin Mary, or some other saint, or by possessing some " relic," the 
laws of nature could easily be changed in their particular cases, the 
science of astrology, which is entirely built upon those laws, has never 
been fully recognized by the people professing the Christian religion, as 
it has been by all the other religions, (whose creeds did not consist of 
miracles,) and all other civilized nations, but Christian, in every other 
part of the inhabited globe. Those Christians that profess a religion 
which consists of the greatest amount of superstition, similar to the 
Roman Catholic religion, love astrology about as much as the devil loves 
holy water; hence when bigoted Catholics like Mr. Proctor or Judge 
Gordon have a chance to show their venom and hatred against an 
astrologer, they never let the opportunity slip. 

Not only Catholics, but all ministers of the gospel are specially opposed 
to the science of astrology, and deem it specially wicked to even desire 
to know anything of our prospects for the future, and any person giving 
way to such a weakness was placed in the catalogue of those persons 
whom Christ speaks of when he says that : — " whomsoever looketh on 
a woman to lust after her, has committed adultery in his heart already." 
Some thirty years ago there was not a Sunday passed, in a city like New 
York or Philadelphia, but what some minister was preaching about the 
wickedness of astrology or fortune-tellers, in short it was a constant text 
or theme for a sermon, similar to " If a man gains the whole world, and 
lose his own soul," or " Go and sin no more," &c, &c. But ministers 
no longer preach sermons against astrology, and we are gradually coming 
back to the laws of nature. Miracles and relics of saints are held at 
a discount, thanks to the lectures and writings of such men as Profs. 
Tyndall, Huxley and Darwin, who are teaching the people that the 
world is governed by fixed laws, and that the condition and happiness of 
man is improved by understanding and obeying these laws ; and on 
account of the perihelion of the superior planets, a great number of the 



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newspapers, both in this country and Europe, have articles on the influence 
of the planets, as for instance : 

The London Evening Standard of July 6th, 1880, in commenting on Mr. 
B. G. Jenkins' paper on Meteorology and Planetary Influence, read by him 
before the Dulwich College Geological Club, said : — 

"From the lofty heights of modem science we have been accustomed to 
look down with pity and contempt upon the astrologers of the Middle Ages, — 
the weak dabblers in science who were foolish enough to believe that the 
stars had an influence upon man. An allusion to astrologers was always 
good to raise a laugh at a science meeting, and the astrologers and alchemists 
were classed together as either dreamers or charlatans. Of late years, how- 
ever, a certain reaction has set in. The astrologer is becoming rehabilitated 
very rapidly. The influence of the planets upon the earth is now admitted 
to be very distinct, and fresh proofs of their disturbing influences are con- 
stantly cropping up." 

Second. — The Reformation and Witchcraft. — Besides the "creeds" 
and " dogmas," the practical part of the Catholic religion consisted of 
good works, and a life of purity and celibacy, which were necessary for a 
person to perform miracles, their souls to be added to the calendar of 
saints, and parts of their bodies to serve the purpose of relics. The 
reformation changed all this, faith was put in the place of good works 
and purity, marriage was substituted for celibacy, witchery took the place 
of miracles, and everything which had the appearance of the supernatural 
or of mystery was classed under the name of witchcraft, except that 
miraculous change of heart which was necessary to get "religion," or be 
converted from evil ways. Man had nothing to do with the laws of 
nature, neither had the laws of nature anything to do with man. 

" In Adam's fall, 
We sinned all." 

Consequently before man was converted he was under the power of 
the devil, and after he was converted, he was controlled by the grace 
of God. Wjthin the last twenty years, when ministers were giving notice 
of religious meetings, they would invariably say : — " The Lord permiting," 
or "The Lord willing." It was blasphemy to even suppose that man 
was subject to natural laws, and years ago, every one was accused of 
witchcraft who attempted to trace those laws, or tried to find out their 
effects, and to calculate them in a person's nativity was equivalent to 
sinning against the Holy Ghost, which is never forgiven either in this 
world or in that which is to come. To be accused of witchcraft was 
certain to be followed by conviction and execution. The injunction 
given to the ancient Jews in the Old Testament, "Thou shalt not suffer 
a witch to live," was carried out to the letter, not only against witches, 
but also against astrologers, by the Protestant Reformers in all Europe, 
and in some parts of America. In some countries in Europe there were 
persons employed as detectives, whose special business it was to hunt up 
witches and bring them to justice ; they were called witch finders, and 
very few supposed witches or astrologers escaped them, especially when 
put to the torture. This persecution has continued almost to the present 
day. Even within the last twenty years a satirical writer in New York, 
who was known by the name of " Doesticks," wrote a book pretending 



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to give an account of all the Fortune-tellers, Clairvoyants, Spiritualists 
and Astrologers in this city ; and he called his book " The Witches of 
New York." Under the belief, no doubt, that the Devil cannot be painted 
too black, he appears to have told as many lies about them as he could 
well put together. Only a few years ago the " New York Sun " gave 
an account of a woman in the Eastern States who had made a prediction 
in regard to the election of Gen. Garfield. The " Sun " did not say 
whether the woman was a fortune-teller, Gipsy, clairvoyant, spiritualist 
or astrologer; it simply stated that she was a "witch," and that term 
appears to cover everything of that nature. 

When I was attending Medical College, the Prof, of Anatomy, in 
giving a description of the eye, remarked that if we were in doubt as to 
the name of a disease of the eye, we could call it Ophthalmia, as that 
meant simply disease of the eye, and covered everything else. In this 
way it has been the custom to class all forms of divination under the 
term witchcraft, and astrologers and fortune-tellers of every kind have 
continued to be persecuted as such. 

An old author has said that " a miracle is legitimate witchcraft, and 
witchcraft is an illegitimate miracle." To make it plainer it might be 
said, that the turning of water into wine by Christ was a miracle, but if 
any other man did the same thing, it would be witchcraft, and up to a 
few years ago, he would have been persecuted as a wizard. 

Is it not strange that astrologers who have been observers and students 
of the laws of nature for thousands of years, and are, as a rule, not 
believers in witchcraft or miracles, or in fact anything supernatural or 
contrary to the laws of nature, should have been called witches and per- 
secuted as such by the persons who are the only advocates of, and 
believers in witchcraft and miracles ? 

We have a similar paradox or circumstance in the practice of Medicine. 
Paracelsus, who lived in the early part of the fifteenth century, commenced 
his career by publicly burning the works of Galen, (who was an astrologer, 
and taught the use of herbs, roots and barks in medicine,) saying that 
" Galen did not know as much as his shoe latchets." Paracelsus was 
the first of the school of mineral medicines, who commenced to treat 
every disease with that class of drugs ; and as mercury was mainly 
employed by them, the German name of which was Quacksalver, they 
were called Quacks, and those who used herbs and roots were the regular 
physicians. Now fashion has changed so much that the herb doctors 
are called Quacks, and the others who use the Quacksalver, the regular 
physicians. 

If the Christian religion were the most perfect religion on the face of 
the earth, then we might wink at some of its miracles and superstitions, 
and at its ignoring the laws of nature, but if we can be guided by past 
history, the opposite is much nearer the truth. Except within the last 
hundred years, whenever and wherever the Christians have gained a foot- 
hold in any civilized or partly civilized nation, they have always reduced 
that nation to barbarism, and it has reverted to the condition of the dark 
ages, and often to slavery of the most degrading nature. It is only since 
the human mind has thrown off some of the superstition of the Christian 



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religion, and discarded miracles and relics, and returned to the investigation 
of the laws of nature, and at the same time been guided by knowledge 
and science which sweep away all superstition and witchcraft, (all of 
which by the scientific mind, are now classed with the hobgoblins of the 
past,) that there has been any real improvement in the condition of man 
in Christian nations. Even now if it were not for the influence of the 
liberal minded inhabitants of those countries, some of those Christians 
would be ready to cut one another's throats, and persecute each other 
as of old, if they happened to differ in their beliefs. The Lord George 
Gordon riots may be taken as an example; and it is the same in every 
place where Christians are away from liberal minded people. 

Many writers in referring to the Christians and their religion, away 
from civilization, say that it forms a very poor comparison to any other 
religion, even in the cradle of Christianity. Bayard Taylor in his " Lands 
of the Saracens," speaking of the Christians in Jerusalem, page 79, says : 

" Whatever good the various missions here may, in time, accomplish (at 
present, it does not amount to much), Jerusalem is the last place in the world 
where an intelligent heathen would be converted to Christianity. Were I 
cast here, ignorant of any religion, and were I to compare the lives and 
practices of the different sects as the means of making my choice — in short, to 
judge of each faith by the conduct of its professors — I should at once turn 
Mussulman. When you consider that in the Holy Sepulchre there are nine- 
teen chapels, each belonging to a different sect, calling itself Christian, and 
that a Turkish police is always stationed there to prevent the bloody quarrels 
which often ensue between them, you may judge how those who call them- 
selves followers of the Prince of Peace practice the pure faith he sought to 
establish. Between the Greek and Latin churches, especially, there is a deadly 
feud, and their contentions are a scandal, not only to the few Christians here, 
but to the Moslems themselves. I believe there is a sort of truce at present, 
owing to the settlement of some of the disputes — as for instance, the restora- 
tion of the silver star, which the Greeks stole from the shrine of the Nativity, 
at Bethlehem. The Latins, however, not long since, demolished, <vi et armis, 
a chapel which the Greeks commenced building on Mount Zion. But, if 
the employment of material weapons has been abandoned for the time, there 
is none the less a war of words and sounds still going on. Go into the Holy 
Sepulchre, when mass is being celebrated, and you can scarcely endure the 
din. No sooner does the Greek choir begin its shrill chant, than the Latins 
fly to the assault. They have an organ, and terribly does that organ strain its 
bellows and labor its pipes to drown the rival singing. You think the Latins 
will carry the day, when suddenly the cymbals of the Abyssinians strike in 
with harsh brazen clang, and for the moment, triumph. Then there are 
Copts, and Maronites, and Armenians, and I know not* how many other sects, 
who must have their share 5 and the service that should be a many-toned 
harmony, pervaded by one grand spirit of devotion, becomes a discordant orgie, 
befitting the rites of Belial. 

A long time ago — -I do not know the precise number of years — the Sultan 
granted a firman, in answer to the application of both Jews and Christians, 
allowing the members of each sect to put to death any person belonging to 
the other sect, who should be found inside of their churches or synagogues. 
The firman has never been recalled, though in every place but Jerusalem it 
remains a dead letter. Here, although the Jews freely permit Christians to 
enter their synagogue, a Jew who should enter the Holy Sepulchre would be 
lucky if he escaped with his life. Not long since, an English gentleman, who 



4^ APPENDIX. 

was taken by the monks for a Jew, was so severely beaten that he was confined 
to his bed for two months. What worse than scandal, what abomination, that 
the spot looked upon by so many Christians as the most awfully sacred on 
earth, should be the scene of such brutish intolerance !" 

I give the above as a specimen of Christianity in its simplicity and 
purity, when removed from liberal minds and infidel influence. As for 
the Mohammedans, they are believers in astrology, consequently they are 
all " lying knaves " and " unscrupulous rascals," and cannot be compared 
to their neighbors, the Christians in Jerusalem. 

A missionary who was trying to convert a Mohammedan to the Christian 
faith, was asked by the mussulman what Christianity taught. The Christian 
said ; — " It teaches the doctrine of a future life, and peace and good will 
on earth." The mussulman answered that his religion taught of a future 
life also, and as for the peace and good will, if it were not for the 
Mohammedans the Christians would murder each other over the sepulchre 
of the founder of their religion. 

Third. — The change from the Ptolemaic to the Copernican System of 
Astronomy : — Claudius Ptolemy lived about one hundred and fifty years 
previous to the time of Christ. He was an astronomer, astrologer, and 
knew all of the geography of his day. The system of astronomy which 
was known by his name was in vogue for thousands of years previous to 
his time. He was a compiler, collecting and embodying in his works all the 
knowledge of these sciences that then existed ; and Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos 
contains all the rules of astrology that had been laid down during the 
centuries before his time, and is to-day to the astrologer what the Bible is 
to the Christian. Up to a very late day his astronomical and astrological 
books were bound in one volume, as there was very little use for astronomy 
except in the practice of astrology. 

When the change from the Ptolemaic to the Copernican system of 
astronomy occurred, many believed that Ptolemy's system of astrology was 
swept away also, but this was wrong and only the result of a want of 
knowledge. All the calculations that were made under the Copernican 
system were the same as those made under the old system, such as the 
calculation of eclipses, the revolutions of the heavenly bodies, etc., the 
difference being that there was more accuracy in the modern method ; 
but by whatever method calculations are made in astronomy the result is 
the same in astrology, and the astrologer of the present day makes his 
calculations similar in every respect to those that were made when they 
wrote the " hieroglyphics of Egypt, the cuneiform inscriptions of Assyria, 
and the most ancient records of Persia, India and China." 

I have at the present time Tate's Astronomy and Hackett's Astrology, 
both bound in one volume, and even if the Copernican and Newtonian 
systems were overthrown and replaced by some other system of astronomy, 
Hackett's Astrology with all its calculations, would remain true, no matter 
by what system they were computed. The angles of geometry and 
mensuration are true to nature whether they be calculated by simple 
arithmetic or the higher mathematics. Therefore the reader will see the 
foolishness and illogical conclusions of Mr. Proctor when he says. — "The 
very fact that the old astrologers were for the most part honest, though 



APPENDIX. 4I9 

mistaken, proves that the astrologer of to-day must necessarily be a rogue 
and a charlatan," and yet he does not in his article bring a single fact to 
prove that the old astrologers were mistaken.* 

As there appears to be a difference of opinion, either real or imaginary, 
on the subject of astrology, between Mr. Proctor and myself; and as the 
newspapers will publish only his side of the question ; and as I have the 
utmost confidence in the principles which all astrologers claim as the truths 
of that science, I believe this question can only be settled so far as Mr. 
Proctor is concerned, on the public rostrum, with an intelligent and critical 
audience for judges. Although the chances are that those judges will be 
biased against astrology, because of previous education, yet it seems to 
me the most fitting place for investigating truth or exposing error. I 
therefore request Mr. Proctor, in the most kind and friendly manner, to 
meet me in public discussion on the following question: — "Are the 
principles of astrology true, and can they be borne out by, and in accord- 
ance with, the laws of nature and reason." 

Mr. Proctor is a public lecturer and has been in practice as such for 
years, and nearly all the audience will be more in sympathy with his 
side of the question. Yet, while I possess none of his advantages and am 
not a fluent speaker, I will allow him his choice to either lead or follow 
me in the discussion, and he may choose the length of time to be 
occupied, provide that each shall have the same length of time. He shall 
also elect whether the discussion shall occupy one evening or more. I 
will bear half the expense of hall rent and advertising. 

The conditions I shall insist upon in these discussions, are : — There 
shall be at least four nativities read off before the audience, two by Mr. 
Proctor and two by myself. In those that are to be read by me the exact 
time of birth shall be vouched for, or sworn to, and selected by a com- 
mittee; one half of this committee to be named by Mr. Proctor, and 
one half by myself. Mr. Proctor must, from the date of birth of the two 
nativities which fall to his lot, give descriptions of the persons physically 
and mentally; give all the good and evil periods of life, marriage and 
children, and the outlines of their lives or natural tendencies. 

If it be true, as Mr. Proctor says, that " the astrologers of to-day make 
a lying pretence of believing in planetary influences," then he can sketch 
off the outlines of a person's life as well from a piece of blank paper as 
I or any other astrologer can from a chart of the heavens erected for the 
moment of birth. 

Mr. Proctor may say that it is all nonsense and a waste of time to 
have a discussion on astrology, as it has already been exploded. The 



* I have not produced any facts to prove the truth of astrology in this article, because Mr. Proctor 
has not given any facts to prove the falsity of that science ; the proofs I have to offer will be found 
in the pamphlet which will follow. All that Mr. Proctor appears to have done is to show the 
universality of astrology and the general belief in it in all civilized nations up to a recent date ; 
probably he has brought as strong arguments in that direction for the truth of astrology as I could 
have done. Where he gets his logic from, in trying to prove a science or any subject false at the 
present day, which was true at its commencement and continued so for thousands of years; or that 
it could be reasonable then and not now, is hard to understand. If the astrologers of to-day are 
ignorant and dishonest, why were they not so thousands of years ago ? And yet Mr. Proctor vouches 
for " the astrologers of old times " being "honest men," and "by no means wanting in reasoning 
power." Let us hope that if Mr. Proctor should in future publish another article on the " Humbug 
of Astrology," he will first learn something of its principles, and remember that none should con- 
demn who do not understand. 



420 APPENDIX. 

same remark might just as truly be made of mesmerism, phrenology, 
homoeopathy, and hundreds of other subjects that live after they are said 
to have been exploded. The great misfortune is, that all of these sciences 
have been exploded by persons who are as little posted on them as Mr. 
Proctor is on astrology. 

Every science is gradually built up from facts which are gathered from 
observation and experiment, sometimes extending over hundreds of years; 
these facts are afterwards generalized and classified according to certain 
rules, principles or laws, and when these rules, principles, and laws 
harmonize and are verified by other experiments and observations, then 
it is called a science. Every science must stand on its own merits; one 
science cannot be proved or disproved by another ; it is impossible to 
prove or disprove, English grammar by the rules of arithmetic, and no 
man can prove or disprove astrology by astronomy, no matter how learned 
he may be in the latter science ; nor can he prove or disprove phrenology 
by anatomy, or homoeopathy by allopathy. Very often one science will 
throw light upon another; for instance geology may throw some light 
upon astronomy, but it is impossible to prove or disprove astronomy by 
geology, although they both have a relation to the planets, geology treat- 
ing specially of our planet, and astronomy of all the planets and stars. 

If I have made any proposition which Mr. Proctor cannot accept, then 
I trust he will signify to me either privately or in the public prints on 
what terms he is willing to meet me for the purpose of having a fair and 
searching examination of principles which I regard as truths in astrology. 
I will concede anything he may ask, except the public tests of nativities, 
as these I consider the most important proofs which can be brought for 
or against astrology. 

After Mr. Proctor has made use of Guch expressions in the public prints 
in referring to myself and all other astrologers, there is one of two things 
he must do: he must either meet me or some other astrologer in public 
discussion on astrology, including the public tests I have before referred 
to, or he must make apology in an equally public manner over his own 
name. It will not do for him to say that I am beneath his notice, as the 
reader can see from what I have related in these Introductory Remarks 
that my standing as a physician and a gentleman is equal to Mr. Proctor's. 

Possibly it will be best to insert in this reply to Mr. Proctor one or 
two anecdotes which illustrate the errors he has fallen into in attacking 
astrologers and astrology. 

Dr. Caldwell, a professor and prominent -physician of Philadelphia, 
gives an account in his autobiography of an incident which occurred while 
he was traveling in England. In journeying by stage from Liverpool to 
Birmingham, while on the outskirts of Liverpool, he noticed a large 
mansion with beautiful grounds, which were decorated in various places 
with fine statuary. This statuary attracted his attention to a degree which 
led him to enquire whom the place belonged to ; a fellow passenger told 
him that it had been the residence of the late Dr. Salmon. Dr. Caldwell 
knew Dr. Salmon as the proprietor of a medicine, called the Balm of 
Gilead. Caldwell commenced a tirade against Salmon, using epithets 
similar to " fraud," " impostor," " prince of quacks," etc., but no reply 



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was made by his fellow passengers. He noticed that they all looked 
towards a lady dressed in deep mourning, who was in the coach. When 
the coach neared Birmingham, all the passengers had left it except the 
lady in mourning and himself, and, American like, he tried to introduce 
himself, enquired if she had far to go when they reached Birmingham, 
and concluded by asking her name. She said, "I am Mrs. Salmon, and I 
live in the house just outside of Liverpool." Dr. Caldwell was taken 
by surprise and began apologizing, but she stopped him by saying, " You 
need not apologize; if you had known my husband as his friends and I 
knew him, you would have spoken differently, and would have held a 
different opinion of him from that you expressed when passing my 
house." Dr. Caldwell afterwards became well acquainted with Mrs. 
Salmon, and he says that it was a lesson to him never to condemn any 
one without previous knowledge of his character. 

If Mr. Proctor had become acquainted with a number of astrologers, 
possibly he would hold a different opinion of them to what he expressed 
in the "World." For instance, Mr. John Ledbetter, who died in Brooklyn 
a short time ago, spent forty-five years in the study and investigation of 
astrology, and has left several volumes in manuscript as the fruits of his 
labor. He invented a planisphere to facilitate his calculations in the 
science, yet he never made a dollar from the practice of astrology. His 
former employers, who are wholesale jewelers in this city, speak of him in 
the highest terms as an honorable man and a man of learning. I could 
give a number of names of men living who are students of astrology, and 
who have devoted years to its investigation, but on account of the 
prejudice against that science they would not wish their names to come 
before the public. 

A number of years since a physician entered the office of Dr. Cox of 
Philadelphia, and picking up a work on the Homoeopathic practice of 
medicine, which lay on the desk, looked at it a moment and threw it 
down, with the contemptuous exclamation: — " Humbug! humbug! " Dr. 
Cox looked at him in surprise, and asked: — "Do you know anything of 
Homoeopathy?" The visitor replied, "No! but it is all humbug and 
nonsense!" Dr. Cox said, "Well I do not know anything of Homoeo- 
pathy myself; but who must I believe; you, who admit that you do not 
know anything of the subject, or my son, who has graduated from a 
Homoeopathic College and is using Homoeopathic medicines every day in 
his practice? And he tells me it is not all humbug." 

In seeking knowledge or information of any science or profession, is it 
not best to be guided and advised by those who are the most informed, 
and have had the longest experience in that science or profession, rather 
than to take the opinion of one who simply reasons on general principles 
and who has had no practical experience. It was such men as Richard 
A. Proctor, and their reasoning without knowledge, which caused all the 
sufferings and hardships of Galileo, Columbus, and I might say of all the 
reformers, discoverers, heretics, and witches who have been persecuted 
for the last thousand years. 

I once heard Mr. Proctor say in one of his lectures on Astronomy, in 
New York City, while speaking of the perihelion of the superior planets, 



422 APPENDIX. 

that even if the Science of Astronomy could be usea in making predic- 
tions of earthquakes and of the periods of epidemics, it would depreciate 
in the estimation of scientific minds, and everything which had a tendency 
to develop astronomy in that direction ought to be discouraged. I beg 
to differ with him on this point; I do not think it can lower the dignity 
of any science to make it more useful and add to the happiness of man. 
I think I have proved by the various rules and principles of Astrology 
in a number of horoscopes in the foregoing pages, and have shown clearly 
that if the science of astrology were put into every day use, as Mr. Proctor 
says it was of old, fully fifty per cent of all the sickness, poverty, misery, 
and hardships of the people of the present day would be done away with. 
I also propose to show that thousands of people are murdered every 
year, and some of them in a most barbarous manner by physicians, on 
account of a want of knowledge of astrology. 

I ask Mr. Proctor to come before an audience and prove, if he can, 
the falsity of a science which for thousands of years was in every day 
use, " not only among all the leading races of antiquity and in all the 
chief civilized nations , but during periods of time which no other faith 
can boast of having swayed. " If he can do this, and yet be uninformed 
of the practical application of that science, I shall give him credit for 
being a remarkably smart man. 

As I have said before, I request Mr. Proctor to meet me in a public 
hall to try and accomplish that most difficult task, or else make a suitable 
apology. He might as well attempt to prove that all the astronomers 
of the present day, in all civilized nations on the globe, are deceived 
when making their calculations for the captains of vessels ; and those 
captains are equally deceived when making use of those calculations 
to find out the locations of their ships at sea; or in other words, the 
astronomers and mariners are gulling each other, or are combined together 
to gull the people, and have been doing so for hundreds of years; as to say 
astrologers have been "making a lying pretense of believing in planetary 
influence/' and have been doing so for ages. 

Why should Mr. Proctor say that the astrologers, who calculate the 
movements of the heavenly bodies have been " making a lying pretense 
of believing in planetary influence," and at the same time not say that 
the captains of vessels have been making a lying pretense of calculating 
the longitude and latitude of the ships at sea ? Does not the astrologer 
make his calculations as carefully as a mariner makes his ? Only those of 
the astrologer are much more intricate, and even more difficult. And 
yet captains of large ocean steamers are held in the highest respect, and 
are deemed men of great responsibility, while astrologers are "lying 
knaves" and "unscrupulous rascals." 

"Strange such a difference there should be 
'Twixt tweedledum and tweedledee." 

Instead of Mr. Proctor calling all astrologers vile names, it would have 
been more logical and convincing to the readers of the "New York 
World," if he had taken the time of birth of some well-known person, 
such as General Washington or General Grant, and shown that the rules 



APPENDIX. 423 

and principles of astrology were not borne out in those nativities. He 
must know that one clear case of that kind would do more to sink astrology 
into oblivion than all the Billingsgate language he could hurl at its 
votaries. Why has this not been done ? I leave the reader to draw his 
own inference. 

To make this matter plainer, I will go into a few particulars of the 
science of astrology. 

The path in the heavens in which the Sun and planets appear to 
travel, when viewed from the earth, is called the ecliptic, or zodiac, 
and it is divided into twelve parts, each of which is called a sign of the 
zodiac. These signs are classed or grouped together according to the 
influences they possess, and are known as tall, short, stout, slender, dark and 
light signs, etc. When a child is born, if a tall sign be rising and the 
moon and the planet which has dominion over the sign rising be both in 
tall signs, that child when it has reached adult life will be tall, no matter how 
short the parents were. The same rule applies, if the signs which have 
control are short, dark or light, stout or slender, no matter how the 
parents are formed. Persons are invariably formed as the planets indicate, 
even when the planetary influence has to overcome hereditary or parental 
tendencies. 

General Washington was born under the planet Venus, which was 
situated in the sign Aries, a tall, slender, light sign ; but having Taurus, 
(a stout sign) on the ascendant, he became rather full made after middle 
age. General Grant was born under the planet Venus, but Venus was 
in the sign Pisces, which is a rather short and stout sign, and having 
Taurus, (a short, sign) on the ascendant, it was an impossibility for him 
to be tall and slender like General Washington, even if General Grant's 
parents had both been tall and slender. 

Nothing but the science of astrology can account for the great difference 
in children of the same family, some tall and light complexioned, others 
short and dark ; and though the believers in heredity think that in such 
cases one child will take after the father, another after the grandmother, 
or even further back, it can be demonstrated that those children owe 
their appearance and tendencies to planetary influence. 

While a student of astrology, many times have I said to parents whose 
child's nativity I was calculating: "Why! you have made a mistake in 
the time ; this would indicate a light complexioned child, while you are 
both dark;" But the answer would always be: "Yes, the child is light 
complexioned and has light hair." Believers in heredity would say that 
the child took after its great-great-grand-parents, or some of its fore-fathers 
who lived before the flood. 

I defy Mr. Proctor to bring a single instance to contradict these laws 
and principles in astrology. He might just as well try to prove that twice 
two are five. 

I shall bring one more illustration and with it close this reply to Mr. 
Proctor. 

In all nativities the seventh house or Western Horizon is called the 
house of marriage, and as there are good or evil planets placed therein, so 
will marriage be more or less fortunate or unfortunate. In the horoscope 



4 2 4 APPENDIX. 

of a female, the planet to which the sun first applies by aspect will 
describe the husband, and if the aspect be a benign one, antl to a fortunate 
planet, it will indicate an excellent man, and happiness in marriage life; 
if it be a malign aspect and to an evil planet, and evil planets be in the 
seventh house, it will be impossible for husband and wife to live together 
in a happy manner. We have a remarkable proof of Astrology in Queen 
Victoria's nativity, wherein the sun first applied by good or trine aspect 
to Jupiter, which was in Aquarius, Prince Albert being exactly described 
by Jupiter in Aquarius, and the happiness of their married life is too 
well known to need comment, 

In the horoscope of a male the rule applies the same, except that the first 
aspect of the moon to a planet is taken instead of the sun's first aspect. 
Lord Byron's nativity is a remarkable example of the influences of the 
planets, in causing unhappiness in his married life. The moon in his 
nativity first made an opposition of Mercury in Capricorn, an evil aspect, 
and an evil planet. His married life is well known. 

I defy Mr. Proctor to produce one instance or nativity, where the rules 
and principles in astrology which I have mentioned are not apparent in 
every day life. If he says he can do so he simply proves himself to be 
a "lying knave" and an "unscrupulous rascal," and "makes a lying 
pretense of" not " believifig in planetary influence" 



Since Richard A. Proctor published the " Humbug of Astrology," in 
which he called all Astrologers, " silly charlatans, lying knaves, rogues, 
and unscrupulous rascals," in the New York World on Feb. 6th, 1887, 
there has been a considerable change in the opinion of some of the 
editors, and the people connected with that paper ; some of them have 
not only become converts to the science of Astrology, but have even 
investigated and studied it to a great extent. 

Mr. T. E. Wilson, the librarian of the New York World, on Feb. 
2d, 1894, when Mr, A. N. Doerschuk, of Kansas City, wrote to him to 
find who was the best astrologer in the United States, directed the letter 
to O. D. Bragdon, an astrologer in Boston, Mass., regarding him as the 
best; but Mr. Bragdon forwarded the letter to me. I have since learned 
from a pupil of mine that Mr. Wilson has given considerable attention 
to Astrology and regards it as a true science. 

Mr. Jonas Whitley, one of the present editors of the New York 
World, has also read much on the science of Astrology, and when he 
graduated at the College of New York the thesis which he handed to 
the officers of that institution was entirely on the science of Astrology. 
Besides the New York World of late has given considerable space to 
articles on Astrology, and to publishing horoscopes. See page 50. 

From " The New York Morning Advertiser " of October 4, 1893. 

AT PROCTOR'S TOMB. 

Impressive Ceremonies Mark the Re-interment of the Astronomer's 
Body in Greenwood. 

The memorial in Greenwood Cemetery, which has been provided 
mainly through the efforts of George W. Childs, of Philadelphia, is 



APPENDIX. 425 

of Qumcy granite, a great bluish block, which is beautifully polished. 
It is eight feet high and five feet wide. One inscription tells that 
" Richard A. Proctor, Astronomer, was born in Chelsea, England, on 
March 23, 1837, and died in New York City, on Sept. 12, 1888, aged 51 
years." On a polished face on the reverse side of the vase, in script, 
is the epitaph especially written for it by Herbert Spencer. It reads : 
"On public as on private grounds, Professor Proctor's premature death was 
much to be lamented. He united great detailed knowledge with broad 
general views in an unusual degree, and while admirably fitted for a 
popular expositor, was at the same time well equipped for original inves- 
tigation, which, had he lived, would have added to our astronomical 
knowledge. Professor Proctor was also to be admired for his endeavors 
to keep the pursuit of science free from the corrupting and paralyzing 
influence of State aid." 

Mr. Herbert Spencer ought to add that people differing in opinion 
from Richard A. Proctor on a scientific subject he called " charlatans, 
unscrupulous rascals, and lying knaves." 

The public may say I am going too far in following Mr. Proctor to 
the grave, but I believe, as Lord Byron says, " Nothing is worse than 
a lying tombstone." 

In ancient Rome, when a noted general returned, after making great 
conquests abroad, and paraded through the streets, the populace clapping 
and shouting his praises, there was always a person appointed to ride be- 
fore him to tell of the hero's faults and shortcomings ; and I think it 
would be a good thing to have a corner on a tombstone to describe the 
faults and shortcomings of those who have departed this life. 

Had any Astrologer ever attacked Mr. Proctor, in any shape or form, 
there might have been some explanation, but not an excuse, for his false- 
hoods against the professors of that science. When I think how many 
Astrologers have had to suffer years of imprisonment, insults, and disgrace 
on account of men like Mr. Proctor telling such untruths about them, 
and men who stood far higher in honesty and principles, and even in 
scientific ability, than Mr. Proctor, no wonder that I feel justified in 
using strong language against such scientific " witch finders." 

Some years ago I attended a course of lectures on Astronomy by 
Prof. Proctor, given in Chickering Hall, New York. He said: "Even 
if epidemics could be foretold by means of Astronomy it would degrade 
the science by making use of it for any such purpose. " a 

Why did he not go further, and say it would degrade Astronomy to 
make use of it for the purpose of navigation, or for the guidance of 
travelers in their journeys over the deserts of Africa, or the prairies of 
America ? It never degrades any science or any person to become 
useful. 

Had not Astronomy become so perfected as to be used for such pur- 
poses, the Astronomers of the present day would be persecuted far more 
than the Astrologers. Formerly the Astronomers made their calcula- 
tions only for Astrologers, to enable them to make predictions. They 
were the hewers of wood and drawers of water for the Astrologers. 



426 



APPENDIX. 



TO THE READER. 



Part of the ensuing pages have been inserted in preceding parts of this 
book, under the heading, " History of Astrology by its Enemies," but I 
think it advisable to reprint the following arguments in favor of Astrology 
for two reasons : first, that the theme would not be complete without them, 
and second, that the reader can appreciate and understand the arguments 
much better than when reading the " Brief History of Astrology, by Its 
Friends and by Its Enemies." If he has also studied the science he can 
enjoy the ridiculous statements that the Rev. Thomas Dick, William and 
Robert Chambers, and Richard A. Proctor have made use of in vilifying 
Astrology and Astrologers. 

It certainly must appear very strange to the student that men of learning- 
such as they, should expose themselves to ridicule and contempt. There 
might be some excuse if they were missionaries talking to the natives of tlie 
islands of the Pacific Ocean, or in New Zealand, Australia, or to the people 
living in the wilds of Africa. Then they could use such expressions and 
arguments without any fear of contradiction ; but in a land of freedom and 
liberty, where a majority of the people can read and write, and study 
Astrology for themselves, and where thousands of text-books are printed 
and published on that science, these writers must appear contemptible and 
absurd in the extreme. 

It is remarkable that the publishers of the leading encyclopoedias should 
continue to treat the science of Astrology with such disfavor, when 
Astrology is so well known and understood, and when there are men, both 
willing and able, to write articles on the science for these publications, who 
can treat it in an intelligent manner, so as to be interesting to the general 
reader. Certainly if an Astrologer reads the statements and arguments 
printed under the head " Astrology," at the same time knowing them to be 
entirely false, they reduce the value of other parts of the encyclopoedia in 
his estimation. 

If the writers of each article had produced a single argument that 
Astrology was false or not worthy of serious attention, it would be a differ- 
ent matter. For instance, if they were to bring forward the horoscope of 
Gen. Washington, and prove from the time of his birth and the position of 
the planets that he ought to have been a short, stout person, dark cora- 
plexioned, with dark hair, and also that the planets indicated that he would 
be a person of shallow brain and remain in obscurity ; or could they prove 
from the time of birth of Gen. Grant, that he should have been a tall, 
slender, light complexioned person, and that as a business man he would be 
remarkably fortunate, but as a soldier a mere numbskull, then they might 
have some excuse for such articles on that science in the encyclopoedias. 
But every one who has a slight knowledge of the science knows it is impos- 
sible for such writers to bring proof or facts of that description against 
Astrology. 

The articles in the encyclopoedias above referred to evince a strong pre- 
judice against Astrology, especially when it is well known that the science 
can be taught the same as the science of arithmetic, or any other science. 
This prejudice and bias against Astrologv from reading such books becomes 
more marked in such cases as that of Mr. Robert Bonner's " New York 
Ledger," whose editor in replying to a question sent to that paper by Kate 
Kellwood, said: "Fortune-telling by cards, by casting nativities, or by any 
other method is utterly false, and an insult to the Majesty of Heaven T* 



* There are two classes of writers and lecturers in the community. One follows the method 
which I have adopted in the " Elements of Astrology,'' by trying to teach and explain the science or 



APPENDIX. 427 

Is it not strange that two-thirds of the inhabitants of the world at the 
present time are insulting the Majesty of Heaven almost every day of their 
lives, and have been doing so for thousands of years, if we can believe the 
people who have lived in China, Japan, Turkey and the East Indies, and al- 
most all other countries except in Europe and America ? Even in Europe and 
America people who insult the Majesty of Heaven are constantly increasing 
in number of late years. The Majesty of Heaven may possibly think that 
remaining in ignorance is more insulting to its dignity than studying the 
laws of the universe and of natural philosophy, especially when the said 
Majesty has endowed man with an intelligent mind, capable of cultivation, 
and has placed him in a world governed by laws and whose advancement in 
happiness consists in learning and understanding these laws, and decreed 
that the more ignorant he is of them the more sorrow and affliction he has 
to suffer and endure. 

The late Mr. Wells, former editor of the " Phrenological Journal " pub- 
lished by " Fowler & Wells," goes one better than Mr. Robert Bonner's 
journal in his answer to a correspondent, who wrote asking the editor about 
the science of Astrology and the influence of the signs of the Zodiac. Mr. 
Wells, in answering the inquirer, wound up his article by stating that " no one 
practised Astrology except designing villains." I took the " Phrenological 
Journal" in my hand and went to see Mr. Wells in his office, thinking that 
perhaps the statement was a misprint or a mistake, but the editor certainly 
proved himself very ungentlemanly, if not a ''designing 'villain,'''' in replying 
to my question. Mr. Wells afterwards, in answering another question on 
Astrology, sent by a correspondent to the "Journal," concluded his article 
by stating that "no one consulted Astrologers except thieves and pros- 
titutes."! 

How Mr. Wells found out what kind of people consulted Astrologers it 
is difficult to understand 5 perhaps he took it for granted that the same class 
that consulted Phrenologists also consulted Astrologers, and knew them to 
be such by his dealings subsequently with them in their different lines of 

subject so the people can understand and judge for themselves whether it is true or false. The 
other class of teachers are those who try to keep people in ignorance and will not permit them to 
investigate for themselves, if they can prevent it. 

These persous generally are of shallow brain and have but little understanding, and actually 
believe that if they do not know anything on any special subject that nobody else does, and it is 
not worth learning. They are like the fox with the sour grapes, or like the fox that had lost its 
tail, and endeavored to persuade all the other foxes to have theirs cut off. 

Sometimes these people get their eyes open, and then they become enthusiastic over sciences 
or subjects which they did everything possible to crush Prof. Chaney was one of those persons, 
but after he was convinced of the truth of Astrology, he has devoted the remainder of his life to 
teaching and promulgating the science. Robert G. Ingersoll was one of those teachers, who re- 
garded Astrology as being reduced to the level of the Christian religion, yet he has of late changed 
his mind, and no doubt we will soon hear him giving lectures on Astrology. 

No one could have been more opposed to it or tried harder to ridicule Astrology in some of his 
lectures than Mr. Ingersoll, and yet we find in an article by Prof. McDonald in the March number 
of the "20th Century Astrologer" of i8gS, reports Mr. Ingersoll as saying : — " I have never given 
much attention to the study of Astrology, but personally I have received great benefits from my 
horoscope. I can say little of it as a science, yet in many ways I have been influenced by it. I 
am glad to acknowledge myself a debtor to what, if the world was not so busy, I should be glad to 
study more carefully." 

How much more it would have been to the credit of Robert G. Ingersoll had he studied 
Astrology more carefully before he began ridiculing it so outrageously in some of his public 
lectures, especially in the lecture wnich he gave on John Kepler, who discovered the first'three laws 
of astronomy. There are thousends of other learned and scientific men like Robert G. Ingersoll, 
who would have a different opinion of Astrology, if they would only study it more carefully. 



t I have been creditably informed that Fowler & Wells now keep a number of astrological works 
for sale in their phrenological rooms. Either these phrenologists have changed their opinion in 
regard to astrologers and those who consult them, or else they have placed themselves in a very 
unfavorable light by encouraging people to become "designing villains," and trying to lower the 
standard of honesty and morality in the community. 



428 ELEMENTS OP ASTROLOeY. 

business or occupations; but even if such was the case, he could not know 
that no other kind of persons consulted Astrologers. 

If the statement of Mr. Wells is correct, the standard of morality, virtue 
and honesty of nearly three-fourths of the present inhabitants of the globe 
must be at a very low ebb, or else people who have lived in different parts 
of the East must tell a great many falsehoods when speaking of the manners, 
customs, beliefs and religions of its inhabitants. The Sultan of Turkey 
has his Astrologers in constant attendance, and besides nearly all the 
inhabitants are firm believers in the science ; yet if anything is stolen in 
Turkey, the first remark the people make is, "There has been a Christian 
around here," In the East Indies and many other parts, the people who 
have resided there speak with emphasis of the honesty and virtue of both 
the men and women, as contrasted with the virtue of the inhabitants in most 
of the Christian countries. From China and Japan we have the same re- 
ports, but when the missionaries go to these countries and teach the Christian 
doctrines, then dishonesty and licentiousness spring up, because the people 
are taught by the missionaries that no matter how many sins they commit, 
if they repent they are foregiven and go to heaven. 

In the East Indies and China, the people consult the Astrologer on every 
kind of business. They not only compare the horoscopes of young men 
and women previous to marriage, but even will not take a boarder into the 
house without first consulting an Astrologer; and yet honesty and virtue 
appear to stand on a much higher plane than honesty and virtue in any 
Christian country, whose people are unbelievers in Astrology, and are 
taught from childhood that Astrologers are " designing villains," and that 
Astrology "is utterly false and an insult to the Majesty of Heaven." 

The people in these Eastern countries, before the Christian missionaries 
go there, are taught that whatever sins or crimes they commit, they have to 
pay the penalty for, either in this life or in some future life. How much more 
sensible would it have been for Mr. Wells or Mr. Robert Bonner to have 
told their correspondents to investigate Astrology for themselves, and be 
guided by such investigation, and if true and not contrary to the laws of 
morality, patronize it and defend it, but if false and degrading to human 
nature, discard it. 

When these Christian people attempt to ^investigate Astrology, either 
in this country or in Europe, they try every way possible, by manufacturing 
all kinds of lies that they can possibly invent, to misrepresent it, and think 
they are serving God by so doing. As an illustration I refer the reader to 
page 439 of this book, where the "Penny Magazine," of London, pretends 
to refute the science of Astrology. The remarks which the writer makes 
use of when pretending to read the horoscope of a person born in London, 
June 13th, 184a, at 12 noon, is one tissue of lies from beginning to end, as 
any person who has studied Astrology, or even has read this book through 
so far, can easily prove for himself. For instance, all text-books on 
Astrology, when describing a person born under the planet Mercury in 
Cancer, agree in the statement that he is small, uglv, ill-natured, and a de- 
ceitful little wretch, and very often given to drink; and yet the writer of 
the "Penny Magazine" makes the native of a most admirable fancy, and a 
great elocutionist, ingenious and studious, all of which is entirely contrary 
to the rules of the science. Also the books teach that Mars afflicts any part 
of the nativity wherever it is situated, and it never " fortifies the midheaven " 
or any angle of the horoscope. 

Astrology, if submitted to any fair and honest test will always come 
off victorious. That is the reason why these Christian people continue to 
tell lies about it, imagining it is opposed to their religion. 



APPENDIX. 



429 



DISCUSSIONS IN FAVOR OF ASTROLOGY 

AND 

ASSERTIONS AGAINST IT. 

FIRST-ARGUMENTS IN FAVOR OF ASTROLOGY. 

In a world of perpetual change and bewildering uncertainty, which 
so materially affects the destiny of every human being, what mind alive 
to its own welfare can lull itself to sleep, and calmly commit its destiny to 
the ocean of chance ? The drunkard, in a lit of intoxication ; the lunatic, 
in the violence of disease ; the idiot, in his imbecility ; or the supersti- 
tious devotee enveloped in the mist of fanaticism, may unconcernedly revel 
on the brink of a precipice ; but the man of mind, alive to the necessary 
connection between cause and effect, and their unavoidable influence upon 
his own welfare, will, in the language of Scripture, "ponder the path 
of his feet," or he will practically exclaim, " So teach us to number our 
days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom." 

Reader, what is meant by the word " ponder ? " What is meant by 
the phrase "teach us to number our days?" Were they inserted in 
the Bible as jests upon human frailty, or as sober and practical realities ? 
Is nature governed by law si Are those laws discoverable? Is the 
mind of man capable of applying them to advantage ? Astrology says 
Yes ! and it offers at the same time to demonstrate to every sincere and 
competent inquirer the truth of its affirmation. 

Those who have studied the science of Astrology, and ought, there- 
fore, to be considered capable of judging, assert and maintain that it is 
. a science, that is, a system consisting of principles a7id rules which may 
be learned ; and history shows us that it is no recent upstart, but that 
it has been studied, practised, and relied upon as a science from time 
immemorial j and although there are no records in existence, that I am 
aware of, denoting where, when, and by whom Astrology was demon- 
strated not to be a science, yet it is somewhat strange to find that in 
an article published in the " New York World " on February 6th, 1887, 
by Professor Proctor, which he designated " The Humbug of Astrology," 
he says " that the Astrologer of to-day has written himself down a 
charlatan, and is probably an unscrupulous rascal, and a lying knave." 

It often happens in arguments, as in the fortunes of war, that when 
an enemy has fired off all his ammunition, and has nothing left to defend 
himself, instead of yielding gracefully and admitting that he is beaten, he 
degrades himself by throwing "mud" and "dirt" as a last resort. Call- 
ing names is the weakest of all arguments. But a sensible man will stick 
to his principles and his science, and defend them with honest and legiti- 
mate means. 

The Astrologer, even while being called these hard names, may be 
a person of learning, and have the capacity and industry to master 
Geometry, Astronomy, Trigonometry, and the whole circle of sciences; 
he may be perfectly honest and established in a reputable line of busi- 
ness, be a good neighbor and an honorable citizen, and yet if he practice 



43° APPENDIX. 

Astrology, that is, if he honestly follows his profession, he is called the 
vilest names by those who call themselves scientists, but who know 
nothing of the principles and science of Astrology. 

In reflecting upon the application necessary to be able to practice As- 
trology, and the persecution it meets, no wonder that its ill-remunerated 
adherents write such verses as these : 

" Why do I stretch the chain of space, 
» Or scan the stars' irradiancy, 
While scientists their " wisdom " join 
To dub these labors " vagrancy ? ** 
"Why seize the compasses and rule 

In Euclid's musty books to dabble, 
While others with one-tenth the toil, 
But smile and fatten on the rabble?" 

Among the opponents of Astrology, so far as my observation goes, 
there is one remarkable fact, that not one of them so much as under- 
stands the first principle upon which it is founded! They presume to 
offer an opinion upon a subject with which they are entirely ignorant — 
a subject which they have never studied, nor applied so much as one 
scientific test. They are generally so ignorant as to confound it with 
Necromancy, Sorcery, Witchcraft, Interpretation of Dreams, Gypsy 
Fortune-telling, Clairvoyance, Soothsaying, and a host of other such 
etceteras. 

Frequently their opposition is so wide of the mark as to be merely a 
disbelief in some undefinable chimera of their own imagination, which 
has no more to do with Astrology than a Chinaman has to do with en- 
acting the laws that prohibit his immigration into this country. What 
can be more absurd than such conduct as this ? What would a society 
of chemists, or surgeons, or mathematicians think of an uneducated 
peasant confronting his supercilious opinions with their analyzations, 
classifications, and demonstrations ? They would pity his ignorance, 
sneer at his presumption, and treat his interference with contempt. The 
opponents of Astrology, although favored by popular ignorance and 
prejudice, are viewed by the experienced with the same disgust. 

Astrologers may be persecuted for a time, as astronomers and all 
other scientists have suffered in their time. After Galileo had been 
compelled, at the peril of his life, to subscribe to the quiescence of the 
world, he exclaimed, "Still it moves." The puny arm of man may 
be raised against the heavens, but the influences of the Pleiades cannot 
be bound, neither can Arcturus be stayed in his course. 

Against Astrology we sometimes hear a little in the shape of argu- 
ment, but nothing that ever affects its truth or validity as a science. 
One argument adduced by some of its most enlightened opponents is, 
that "Astrologers often err in their predictions," and to the truth of this 
objection every Astrologer must bow. But, at the same time, we must 
not allow a particular exception to usurp the place of a general rule ; 
we must not allow a local detail to circumscribe a universal truth. 
The partial failure of Astrologers necessarily presupposes partial success. 
If Astrologers always failed in their predictions, the evidence against 



APPENDIX. 4 1 1 

Astrology would be strongly presumptive, though, not absolutely conclu- 
sive, inasmuch as the properties of matter do not result from man's 
knowledge of them, but, on the contrary, these attributes of matter per- 
vaded inherently prior to man's existence, and are only yet ascertained 
to a very limited extent. 

When attempts are made to parallel Astrology with many other 
sciences, its magnitude and complexity appear so immensely overwhelming 
that the wonder turns not upon the failures of its adherents, but rather 
upon their frequent successes. If the shoemaker be sometimes deceived 
in the quality of a handful of leather, why should we marvel at the 
Astrologer's occasional misjudgments, when his materials are worlds, suns, 
and systems? If the shoemaker sometimes misfits his customer, after 
careful measurement of so small an object as the human foot, why be 
surprised at the errors of the Astrologer, who has to gauge the heavens ? 
However often the shoemaker may err, where is the man to denounce 
the craft as useless, false, and not strictly based on scientific principles ? 
Not only are the shoemaker and the Astrologer at times similarly erro- 
neous in their practice, but such is the case with every art, every science, 
and every professson on earth. If, therefore, the occasional errors of 
Astrologers be admitted as conclusive against Astrology as a science, all 
other sciences, so called, are equally open to the same objection — all 
sciences are false. The chemist, the mathematician, the architect, the 
painter, the divine, the lawyer, the newspaper editor, the photographer, 
the legislator, the shoemaker, and the Astrologer may all shake hands 
together and mutually exclaim, "We are brethren all." 

Unless it can be demonstrated that Astrology is false, and not in 
accordance with the laws of nature, its professors ought not to be called 
"charlatans" and tl unscrupulous rascals and lying knaves" by persons 
who are altogether ignorant of that science. It indicates an ignorance 
and prejudice that will not be believed one hundred years to come. The 
people in those days, when reading the history of the present time, will 
look back to the persecutions of Astrologers, the Botanic and Homoeo- 
pathic physicians, the Socialist and the Spiritualist, as we look back to the 
persecution of the " Witches," " Heretics," and "itinerant Preachers," 
who lived two hundred years ago, and which the Poet Whittier describes 
in his Poem entitled 

THE PASTORAL LETTER. 

Oh, glorious days, when church and state 

Were wedded by your spiritual fathers, 
And on submissive shoulders sat 

Your Wilsons and your Cotton Mathers. 
No vile " itinerant " then could mar 

The beauty of your tranquil Zion, 
But at his peril of the scar 

Of hangman's whip and branding-iron. 

Then wholesome laws relieved the church 

Of heretic and mischief-maker, 
And priest and bailiff joined in search, 

By turns, of Papist, witch and Quaker! 



43 2 APPENDIX. 



The stocks were at each church's door, 
The gallows stood on Boston Common, 

A Papist's ears the pillory bore, — 
The gallows-rope, a Quaker woman ! 

Your fathers dealt not as ye deal 

With "non-professing" frantic teachers; 
They bored the tongue with red-hot steel, 

And flayed the back of " female preachers. 
Old Newbury had her fields a tongue, 

And Salem's streets could tell their story 
Of fainting woman dragged along, 

Gashed by the whip, accursed and gory. 

And will ye ask me, why this taunt 

Of memories sacred from the scorner? 
And why with reckless hand I plant 

A nettle on the graves ye honor? 
Not to reproach New England's dead 

This record from the past I summon, 
Of manhood to the scaffold led, 

And suffering and heroic woman. 



SECOND— THE ASSERTIONS OF THOSE WHO OPPOSE ASTROLOGY. 

These include all those who write for Encyclopedias, editors of 
newspapers, especially of religious periodicals and scientific books, except 
text books on Astrology. 

Why publishers should continue to engage men to write on the sub- 
ject of Astrology in the above named books, whose only qualification 
is their ignorance of that science, is impossible to understand, especially 
when there are so many Astrological almanacs and monthly Astrological 
periodicals, as well as a number of Astrological text books, the authors 
of which are well qualified to write for any; of the various "Encyclo- 
paedias." 

Surely if the publishers of the above named works desired to impart 
the truth to their readers on this science, there are a number who under- 
stand Asrology whose services could be procured. 

Any one understanding Astrology, and reading the articles printed 
under the words "Astrology," " Horoscope, " etc., in the Encyclope- 
dias now published, would naturally arrive at the conclusion that the 
writers had gone through a civil service examination in the science of 
Astrology, and those who could answer the fewest questions had been 
selected, or those who were most prejudiced against the science had been 
chosen to write the articles. 

Chambers, in their " Information for the People," commence their 
article on Phrenology with these words : " It has of late been customarv 
for the conductors of popular cyclopaedias to admit articles on Phre- 
nology ; but in most if not all the instances in which this has been done, 
the articles were the composition of persons who denied that phrenology 
was a true system of mental philosophy, and whose aim rather was to 



APPENDIX. 433 

show its want of sound foundation than simply to present a view of its 
doctrines. In every one of these instances it was afterwards successfully 
shown by phrenological writers that their science had been misrepre- 
sented, and its doctrines challenged on unfair grounds, so that the 
articles in question might as well not have been written, in so far as the 
instruction of candid inquirers was concerned. We have resolved to 
eschew this practical absurdity, by presenting a view of Phrenology by 
one who believes it to be the true system of mind." 

Yet these publishers, in their work called " Chambers' Encyclopae- 
dia, " have followed the same erroneous plan in their article on Astrology 
which they condemned in others as being wrong in treating the subject 
of Phrenology. They have employed a person who was altogether 
ignorant of Astrology, and at the same time prejudiced against it. This 
writer, under the title "Astrology, " goes on to make the following false 
statements : 

" Belief in Astrology is not extensively professed in any Christian 
country, though a few solitary advocates have from time to time ap- 
peared. But it still holds sway in the East, and among the Mohamme- 
dans wherever situated. Even in Europe, the craving of the ignorant 
of all countries for divination is still gratified by the publication of 
multitudes of almanacs containing Astrological predictions, though the 
writers no longer believe in them."* • 

* It might have been just as well for the morals of the community if Messrs. Chambers had not 
mentioned the last named fact, when they say " that the authors no longer believe in them." In 
this sentence they refer to the Astrological Almanac published by John Partridge, in London, 
England, which, while he was living, had a very large circulation. After his death, by some 
means that I do not recollect, the Baptist Missionary Society of London, procured the Almanac 
and continued its publication. It sold at that time for what was considered a high price, viz., 
2s. 3d. (54 cents) per copy. The society sent Bibles and missionaries to the benighted heathen 
with the profits of this Astrological Almanac. This equals the statement of Fred Douglas in the 
narrative of his life where he says "that during the time of slavery in the South, the slaveholders 
sold men to build churches, they sold women to send missionaries abroad, and babies to send 
Bibles to the savages in Africa." But only think of it, those pious people went into the business 
of fortune-tellings which they did not believe in, in order to save souls. It is almost incredible. 
The Missionary Society bought the right of publishing the Astrological Almanac either from the 
widow or the executors of John Partridge about the year 1830, and they discontinued publishing it 
only when it did not pay. 

Raphael, and also Zadkiel, both of London, seeing an opening for an Astrological Almanac, 
each started one nearly at the same time, and both almanacs, being well written by persons who 
understood and believed in Astrology, soon took the place of John Partridge's. 

These two almanacs are still published, and they have a circulation at the present time of near 
half a million. There has never been an Astrological Almanac published except by those pious 
religious people referred to by William and Robert Chambers, that the authors were not firm 
believers in Astrology. 

If it were discovered that one minister of the Gospel in the whole world had been preaching a 
religion that he did not believe, it would be too sweeping an assertion to say that all ministers were 
frauds, and that all religions were false. These pious people were not Astrologers, did not know 
anything about it, and did not believe in it. They only published the almanac to raise money 10 
convert the heathen and send Bibles and missionaries to them, and I do not see why Astrolo- 
gers and Astrology, should be blamed for what they did. It is misrepresenting Astrology and 
challenging its doctrines on zmfair grounds. 

I have a number of John Partridge's almanacs that were published after it fell into the pious 
people's hands, and I intend at some future time to publish some of the predictions and remarks 
they contain. There is material enough in them to make a first-class comic opera, and I have 
no doubt it would take wonderfully. 

Had either William or Robert Chambers known anything about Astrology they would have 
seen that those zealots did not know the first A, B, C of the science, therefore could not believe 



434 APPENDIX. 

How Messrs. Chambers found out that the writers of Astrological 
books and almanacs "no longer believe in them" they do not inform 
us. But what should we think of any writer or publisher making use 
of such remarks about professors of another science or religion except 
Astrology ? What would be thought of a profeesor of chemistry, astron- 
omy, or any of the sects of the Christian religion who should make 
such uncharitable accusations ? It is reasonable to suppose the writer 
would find himself, figuratively speaking, in a hornet's nest. 

But even in the last fifty or seventy-five years there has been a re- 
markable change in all the encyclopcedias and biographical dictionaries, 
or works that have anything to say on the subject of Astrology. All 
of the works at that time which mentioned the word Astrology or As- 
trologers could not find epithets severe enough in condemnation of both. 
The Astrologer was called a "fraud,", "impostor," "ignoramus," "char- 
latan," and a number of names of that description, especially when they 
spoke of William Lilly, John Gadbury, and others. The people who 
consulted them were called their " dupes," even when the people were 
the kings and queens and members of Parliament of England. When 
they spoke of that science they stated that Astrology was exploded, 
condemned, "put under ban of the law," etc. 

But in all the new Biographical Dictionaries, under the name William 
Lilly they do not even mention that he was a " fraud " or " impostor." 
And under Astrology in the new Encyclopcedias they do not even men- 
tion its being "exploded," or that it is an "ancient superstition." At 
the same time, they do not offer any apologies for having previously 
made use of those expressions in former editions. Even Chambers will 
soon be compelled to change the wording of the article on Astrology 
in their Encyclopcedia. 

I propose shortly to publish a pamphlet showing how the scientists 
and writers of the works above mentioned are evoluting out of their 
own " ignorance " and " superstition " when treating on those subjects. 
I have every reason to believe it will be asinteresting as anything pub- 
lished in the latter part of the nineteenth century. Professor Richard 
A. Proctor, when he published his " Humbug of Astrology " in the 
" New York World," knew at the time that he was uttering untruths 
and falsehoods. The "World" would not publish- my reply, but I 
published it in a pamphlet entitled "Why I am an Astrologer." 
Even Mr. Proctor could not help admitting that the science of As- 
trology was as ancient as any on the face of the earth, and " that 
all nations which had attained any advance in civilization were firm 
believers in it." As he says himself, "the cuneiform inscriptions of 
Assyria, the hieroglyphs of Egypt, the most ancient records of Babylon, 
Persia, India, and China, agree in showing that of old all men believed 
that the Sun ait d Moon, the planets and the stars foretold, nay, ntled 
the fortunes of men and nations \" 

in it, and published the almanac because they could raise money by it. If those pious missionary 
people had to go into the counterfeiting business in order to raise money to spend in saving the 
souls of the heathen, that would be no valid reason for condemning all good money. Neither 
ehould Astrology be condemned because those hypocrites counterfeited it. 



APPENDIX. 43$ 

THOMAS DICK ON THE ABSURDITY OF ASTROLOGY. 

In a work published in England by Thomas Dick, about 1830, and 
which has gone tbrough a great many editions, called " The Improve- 
ment of Society by the Diffusion of Knowledge," in Harpers' edition, 
published in New York in 1839, on page 31 he says : 

" The planetary bodies, indeed, may, in certain cases, have some 
degree of physical influence on the earth, by virtue of their attractive 
power, but that influence can never affect the operation of moral causes, 
or the qualities of the mind. Even although it were admitted that the 
heavenly bodies have an influence over the destinies of the human race, 
yet we have no data whatever by which to ascertain the mode of its 
operation, or to determine the formula and rules by which calculations 
are to be made, in order to predict the fates of nations, or the individual 
temperaments and destinies of men ; and consequently, the principles and 
rules on which Astrologers proceed in constructing horoscopes, and cal- 
culating nativities, are nothing else than mere assumptions, and their 
pretensions nothing short of criminal impositions upon the credulity of 
mankind." 

It is difficult to understand what Mr. Dick meant when he said 
"we have no data whatever by which to ascertain, or to determine the 
formula or rules by which calculations are to be made, in order to pre- 
dict the fate of nations or the individual temperaments and destinies of 
men." Did Mr. Dick write this sentence in pure ignorance, or was it a 
deliberate falsehood on his part ? He must have known that there 
were thousands of Astrological works published in different parts of 
Europe, which give the data and formula for making the calculations 
and predicting the fate of men. In other words, did he believe that 
because he had never read and studied those books no one else has ever 
done so ? There are hundreds of thousands of men who have read these 
works, if he has not. I have read and studied scores of different text 
books on Astrology myself, and have quite a library of such books, all 
in the English language. 

Some years ago a prominent member of the Parliament of England 
(I think it was Lord Brougham) rose in the House of Commons to reply 
to a question, and said " that he had never seen, read, or heard that 
there was a periodical published called e The London Journal,' " yet at 
that time that Journal had a circulation of over three hundred thousand, 
the largest of any paper in the world. His answer produced roars of 
laughter, as there were but few people in England at that time who had 
not read or knew something about "The London Journal." Suppose 
this member of Parliament had said "that any one who had read or 
seen "The London Journal" was a criminal impostor, who wanted to 
impose on the credulity of mankind ; he would then have placed himself 
in the very position that Mr. Dick placed himself when he wrote the 
book "On the Improvement of Society by the Diffusion of Know- 
ledge," and which ought to have read, "Diffusion of Falsehoods." 

It is astonishing how far prejudice will go against certain sciences, 
literature, and religions, when the teaching does not coincide with their 



43^ APPENDIX. 

particular class of reading or study. For instance, the Allopathic doctors 
will not read or pay any attention to anything that is published in Ho- 
moeopathic, Botanic, or Eclectic works. They say it is not " official * 
unless it is published in their own literature and text books. They do 
everything possible to crush out all systems of medicine except their 
own, and call all other schools of medicine " quacks and frauds." They 
tell me, as they have told hundreds of others, that "we are going to 
have only one sect in medicine," and they use the same means which 
the people formerly used when they were determined to have only one 
sect in religion. 

It is the same in regard to scientists ; they will not notice or recog- 
nize any kind of knowledge or learning unless it is published in their 
particular kind of literature. They are like the General, who, while 
burning the Alexandrian Library, said "that if what is in those many 
thousands of volumes is in the Koran, it is of no use, as we have it in 
the Koran; and if it is not in the Koran, then it is false, and oughc 
to be burned." 

Even in this small pamphlet I have given some of the rules and data 
by which to make the calculations that are used by Astrologers, and 
how to make predictions, and I am not the only Astrologer in the world. 
Not only that, but there have been Astrologers ever since the dawn of 
civilization.. Even at the present day thre^-fourths of the inhabitants of 
the world are believers in Astrology, and Uoe it in their every-day life. 

Mr. Dick also says, " The planetary bodies may have some physicr' 
influence on the earth." Does he not know that even thousands of 
years ago that influence was known and recognized ? We read in Job 
xxxviii, 31, "Canst thou bind the sweet influences of the Pleiades, 01 
loose the bands of Orion ? Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven ? 
Canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?" In those days 
planetary influence was universally recognized, and to doubt it was al- 
most equal to doubting the existence of the sun. 

Even Thomas Dick admits that Astrology was taught and recognized 
in ancient times by every nation on the face of the earth that had at- 
tained any degree of civilization. Although he does not bring a single 
fact nor argument against Astrology, he admits its universality when he 
says : 

"Notwitstanding the absurdity of the doctrines of Astrology, this art 
has been practised in every period of time. Among the Romans the 
people were so infatuated with it that the Astrologers, or, as they were 
then called, the mathematicians, maintained their ground in spite of all 
the edicts of the emperors to expel them from the capital ; and after 
they were at length expelled by a formal decree of the senate, they found 
so much protection from the credulity of the people, that they still 
remained in Rome unmolested. Among the Chaldeans, the Assyrians, 
the Egyptians, the Greeks, and the Arabians, in ancient times, Astrology 
was uniformly included in the list of the sciences, and used as one 
species of divination by which they attempted to pry into the secrets of 
futurity. The Brahmins in India, at an early period, introduced this art 
into that country, and, by means of it, have rendered themselves the 



APPENDIX. 437 

arbiters of good and evil hours, and of the fortunes of their fellow-men, 
and have thus raised themselves to great authority and influence among 
the illiterate multitude. They are consulted as oracles, and, like all 
other impostors, they have taken great care never to sell their answers 
without a handsome remuneration. * In almost every country in the 
world this art is still practised, and only a short time has elapsed since 
the princes and legislators of Europe were directed in the most impor- 
tant concerns of the state by the piedictions of Astrologers. Tn the 
time of Queen Catharine de Medici, Astrology was so much in vogue, 
that nothing, however trilling, was to be done without consulting the 
6tars. The Astrologer Morin, in the seventeenth century, directed 
Cardinal Richelieu's motions in some of his journeys, and Louisa Maria 
de Gonzaga, Queen of Poland, gave 2000 crowns to carry on an edition 
of his Astrologia Gallica ; and in the reign of Henry the Third and 
Henry the Fourth of France, the predictions of Astrologers were the 
common theme of court conversation. Even in the present day, and in 
the metropolis of the British empire, this fallacious art is practised, and 
its professors are resorted to for judicial information, not only by the 
vulgar, but even by many in the higher spheres of life. The extensive 
annual sale of more than 240,000 copies of * Moore's Almanac,' which 
abounds in such predictions, and of similar publications, is a striking 
proof of the belief which is still attached to the doctrines of Astrology 
in our own age and country." 

If we hnd wanted some person to give Astrology a special "puff" in 
n advertisement, I do nor >ee that we could 
ge a man better adapted to do it than Mr. Thomas Dick. He 
says, "Notwithstanding the absurdity of the doctrine of Astrology, 
this art has beeir practise. J in every period of time," And yet he does 
not give a single fact, argument, or reason why it is absurd. Is As- 
trology only absurd to those who know nothing about it? Possibly that 
is the reason why those people ignorant of Astrology write as they do 
when treating on that subject. 

All persons, before they learn geography, think it quite absurd that 
the earth is round. It takes a long time to convince them that it is not 
flat like a pancake. Every one has very crude ideas about astronomy, 
and thinks many things in connection with that science are erroneous, 
until he becomes better acquainted with the stars and planetary bodies 
including the sun and the earth. 

Even those who have been taught that the world was created in six 
days as described in the first chapter of Genesis think that geology is 
very absurd, and it takes time to convince them that it took thousands 
of years for the earth and its inhabitants to be developed to their present 
state of perfection.- 

Possibly if Mr. Dick and Professor Richard A. Proctor had been 
taught Astrology in their early years, it might not appear quite so absurd 

*Are doctors, lawyers, ministers, and followers of other professions impostors, because they 
receive a remuneration for their services? All writers against Astrology harp on that subject. 
According to their notion Astrologers are the worst people in the world, and are the only people 
who must work for nothing, and if they want anything for their services, they are impostors 1 



4^8 APPENDIX. 

to them. It frequently happens that the absurdity of a thing exists only 
in the minds of the ignorant. At least, a comprehensive knowledge of 
any science ought to make one more charitable to the unlearned. It 
is difficult to believe that any one who has received a liberal education 
would stoop so low as to call those who differ with him in opinion 
on scientific subjects " criminal impostors," " unscrupulous rascals," 
"charlatans," and ''lying knaves." 

In regard to the people of Rome being so infatuated with the As- 
trologers, and protecting them in spite of the edicts of the Emperors and 
the Senate to expel them, they still remained in Rome, unmolested. 
Are we to understand from Mr. Dick's remarks that the people of Rome 
protected their mathematicians, or Astrologers, when they knew them 
to be frauds and impostors, similar to what they might have protected 
thieves, murderers, bandits, or pirates, knowing them to be such ? Or 
did the Romans protect the Astrologers because they knew them to be 
innocent of any crime, and only persecuted by the Emperors and Senate 
for some reason of their own, the same as we read in history of the 
British Government persecuting the Roman Catholics, and driving them 
out of the British Islands, and at other times persecuting the Presbyte- 
rians, Nonconformists, and Puritans, and driving them to the wilds of 
America. 

The reason why the Roman citizens protected the Astrologers was, 
that they knew they were a benefit to the community, and had great 
influence over the people, and the Astrologers p the Emperors 

and Senate from making slaves of rhem. Th*« *« the - tk« 

rulers wanted to drive the A- out of the capital. 

If the Astrologers had been driven out of Rome, would it have made 
them any worse citizens than the Pilgrim Fathers who were driven out 
of England on account of adhering to their religious belief? 

There are two orders of nob ; ] in .America. One is, when a man 
can trace his ancestry back to the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers at 
Plymouth Rock, after they were expelled from the British Islands ; the 
other is, when a man can say his grandfather fought in the Revolution, and 
helped to drive the English from this country. Even if the Astrologers 
had been driven out of Rome, their descendants might have been proud 
in tracing back their ancestry to that epoch, the same as the English are 
proud when they can say their ancestors came over with William the 
Conqueror. 

It is strange that what is considered in connection with the Pilgrim 
Fathers as a badge of honor, is regarded in connection with Astrologers 
as a stigma of disgrace. 

The people of Rome must have regarded the Astrologers as equal if 
not superior to other citizens, and of great service to the community, 
which made them disobey the l^ws of the country in protecting, and not 
assisting the authorities in driving them out of Rome.* 

*The main reason why I have criticised -Mr. Thomas Dick's "Absurdity of Astrology'' in 
preference to other authors who have written against that science, is because the British Parlia- 
ment granted him ,£5,000 (equal to $25,000) on account of the religious vein which runs through 
all his works, and the great amount of supposed good his " Improvement of Society by the Diffu- 



APPENDIX. 



439 



PENNY MAGAZINE'S REFUTATION OF ASTROLOGY. 

In the " Penny Magazine," No. 736, published in London, England, 
may be found an article on Judicial Astrology, being, as the author im- 
agines, a refutation of that science, which, however, we now take the 
liberty to tell the writer we consider so much beneath a refutation that it 
goes far to establish the truth of Astrology. It appears from the general 
disrepute in which Astrology is held by some people, that any snarling 
cur has a right to give it a bite, and every ass a kick, with impunity, 
because it does not happen to be the fashion of the day. 

We shall give a few extracts from the article in question, considering 
this the shortest and most proper method of showing the writer's false- 
hood, and his inability to perform the task he has so inconsiderately 
undertaken : 

"Even the disbelief in Astrology, which is now so generally prevalent in society, is rather to 
be considered the effect of education than a firm conviction of the mind, resulting from investigation 
and inquiry." 

We may state that we are also of the same opinion. Here is a plain 
confession that the general disbelief in Astrology, in the community at 
large, is to be considered chiefly as the effect of prejudice, and not from 
any conviction of mind arising from inquiry and proper investigation ; 
that is, they are disbelievers simply because they have been taught that 
Astrology is not true, and that it is not the fashion of the day to believe 
in it ; not that they know any just cause or impropriety in the science, — 
and thus relying upon other persons' judgments, they renounce the sci- 
ence without they, themselves, knowing anything of its principles, or of 
its truth or falsehood. This alone is one proof of the verity of the 
science. If Astrology were false, an investigation of its laws would, of 
itself, be sufficient to condemn it. But, instead of this being done, we 
find it set down for falsehood by persons altogether unacquainted with 
its principles. 

sion of Knowledge," "Celestial Scenery," etc, had done, and which gave him the name of "The 
Christian Philosopher." I believe he is the only author the British Government ever honored or 
recognized in such a substantial manner. Yet if I went through the whole of his works I would 
find them just as full of falsehoods and misrepresentations as his "Absurdity of Astrology." I 
have read nearly all of them. 

I cannot understand why the British Government thus honors one author, even if his works 
were perfection itself, while they are doing everything possible by all kinds of persecution to suppress 
or destroy other authors. I refer to a noted writer, whose name I do not wish to mention, but 
who is an Astrologer and an author of Astrological books. The authorities in England have 
broken into his house numbers of times, and carried off everything he used in his business or in 
making his calculations to enable him to publish his works, in the same manner that the authorities 
in this country carry off faro tables and other gambling instruments, "sawdust" circulars, etc., 
from gambling houses. 

The only way the Astrologer could circumvent the authorities was by making a friend of his 
landlord, whose name was Mr. Lord, and who permitted him to label all his books, globes, and 
mathematical tables and instruments "This is the, property of Mr. Lord." Then the authorities 
dare not take them. Yet that man was placed at the mercy of his landlord, who could have carried 
off all his goods at any time, and without a moment's notice. 

Astrology has prospered in England- and in every part of the world, in spite of all this kind of 
persecution ; yet its enemies tell us that it has been exploded, and that there is nothing in it. 

In a free and civilized country such as England is at the present day, why should some authors 
be thus honored and rewarded, and others persecuted and imprisoned? As the poet says — 
" Strange that such a difference there should be 
'Twixt tweedledum and tweedledee." 



440 



APPENDIX. 



The writer of the article goes on to say : 

"Yet the practice (since 1611), I fear, has fluctuated rather than decreased." 

Here is another strong evidence in favor of Astrology, that it has 
withstood the prejudice of centuries and the censure of ages. Had As- 
trology been false and based in error, it would have fallen by its own 
weapons, and time alone would have proven sufficient to consign it to 
oblivion ; yet we find quite the reverse of this to be the case, and that 
in late years it has rather increased than otherwise. 

The writer then proceeds, in No. 744, to erect a figure or map of 
the heavens, which he has been pleased to style a Nativity, all of which, 
however, is mere supposition. 

Bur, in order to show the reader the writer's inability to accomplish 
the task he has so ignorantly undertaken, we might mention that 
the figure or map of the heavens is, in many respects, very incorrect. 
For instance, in the longitude ol Jupiter there is an error of four degrees 
and three minutes ; in Saturn, of three degrees and three minutes ; in 
Mercury, of three degrees and seventeen minutes, and in Venus, twenty 
minutes. The Part of Fortune is also placed in the wrong part of the 
figure ; and the planet Uranus is not in the figure at all. A pretty com- 
mencement this is, for a critic to come before the public, with the intention 
of refuting the science of Astrology — a person altogether ignorant of the 
common rules or the simple elements of the science. It appears that 
the erection of a map of the heavens is not so easily accomplished as 
this would-be critic would lead us to believe.* We shall now proceed 




tf U 



*The time the writer erected his supposed horoscope was June ij, 1842, at 12, noon, London, 
England. I here insert the chart of the heavens for the above time, corrected, and the planets in 
their proper places, with the planet Uranus and the Part of Fortune inserted, so that the reader can 
see for himself I do this to show that I do not want to take any advantage of the writer's ignor- 
ance of mathematics, but would rather give him all the aid possible to expose Astrology. I am 
always willing to " help a lame dog over_a stile "—it is my nature. As the planet Neptune was 



APPENDIX. 4^1 

to give the writer's judgment, or, more strictly, his nonsense, on this 

supposed nativity : 

" The sign Virgo, ascending, makes ingenious and studious persons, and Mercury, the lord of 
the ascendant, being located in the mid-heaven, and the lord thereof, declares the native to be of 
a most admirable fancy and great elocution ; and as he is also in good aspect of Venus, and in 
reception of the Moon, the person born under his rule will become a most accomplished orator, 
and be famous as a divine or philosopher. Venus in the tenth, denotes that the native will be 
greatly beloved and esteemed, and that he will marry honorably, and gain great eminence and 
renown. But 'our life is of a mingled yarn.' The Dragon's Tail portends, when located in 
the tenth house of the Nativity, a fatal end to the honor of the native ; and when Mars is 
posited in the tenth house, being lord of the eighth (as is the case in this figure), he declares 
death to the native by the sentence of a judge. This would be, indeed, a most inglorious termina- 
tion to a career which promised, at the outset, to be so resplendent ; but hope gleams on the horo- 
scope from one of the most brilliant constellations. The Moon is entering into a conjunction with 
Cor Leonis, 'the Lion's Heart,' which gives her a greater degree of strength than any other acci- 
dental circumstance. And the mid-heaven, well fortified (as in tin's case) by the presence of Mars 
and the Sun, not only gives eminent honor, but such as shall be durable, though it may be subject 
to interruptions. We may there 01 e hope that the native, even though sentenced by a judge, will 
be spared from an untimely fate.' 

The writer then goes on to say, that nothing can be properly ascer- 
tained except by calculating the figure. We, however, have neither 
time nor space to pursue further this truly logical and scientific jargon 
From beginning to end it is one continued scene of confusion and mis- 
representation, and clearly shows that the writer is entirely ignorant of 
Astrology, and unacquainted with the principles by which its professors 
are guided. Had the writer possessed the slightest knowledge of the rules 
of Astrology, he would have seen that the figure neither " declared the 
native to be of a most admirable fancy," nor of "great elocution ;"and 
Mercury having no aspect to the Moon, "the person born under his 
rule" would neither "become a most accomplished orator," nor "be 
famous as a divine or philosopher ;" but, on the contrary, that he would 
have seen quite the reverse was shown; and that Mercury in Cancer, in 
opposition (a very evil aspect) to Jupiter, would denote a person of mean 
abilities, and one of an evil and dissipated character. But in order to 
show the reader how far the above critic is wide of his mark, we will 
insert below a few rules from our Astrological books; rules that we have 
to go by in our every-day practice, and then the reader will see what 
sort of an orator, or divine, or philosopher the above critic's hero 
would make : 

"The Complete Dictionary of Astrology," by James Wilson, Esq., 
London, England, page 148, says : 

"Mercury in Cancer gives a short squab figure, bad complexion, sad brown hair, thin face, 
sharp nose, and small eyes ; a dishonest, ill-natured, deceitful wretch, and one who is generally 
given to drinking." 

" Astronomy and Elementary Philosophy, by Placidus de Titus, an 
Italian Monk, translated from the Latin, by E. Sibly, London, 
England, 1789, Vol. I, page 55, says: 

"Mercury in Cancer personates a low or short stature of body, of an ill complexion, dark hair, 
thin face, sharp nose, small eyes; a mere dissembler, sottish, light-fingered, ill-natured, unless the 
Moon or Jupiter be in good aspect to Mercury." 

In the above Nativity the Moon has no aspect to Mercury, but 
Jupiter is in opposition to it, which makes it all the worse. 

not discovered in 1842, he could not have inserted it, but its longitude on June 13 of that year was 
eighteen degrees and thirty-eight minutes in Aquarius, in the 5th house, and was at that time in 
opposition to the Moon and in trine to the Sun. 



44 1 APPENDIX. 

" The. Prognostic Astronomer ; or Horary Astrology/* by Dr. W. J. 
Simmonite, Leeds, Yorkshire, England, 1854, page 10, says: 

" Mercury in Cancer personates a low or short stature, dull complexion, sad brown hair, thin 
face, sharp nose, and small eyes; and in disposition dissembling, sottish, thievish, except Mercury 
happens to be in good aspect to the Moon and Jupiter. But it Jupiter be in Virgo or Gemini, 
then the native is a vagabond, etc" 

"New and Complete Illustration of the Occult Sciences," by E. 
Sibly, M. D., F. R. H. S., London, England, 1807, page 375, says: 

"Mercury in Cancer personates a low or short stature of body, of an ill complexion, sad brown 
hair, thin face, sharp nose, and small eyes; and in disposition a mere dissembler, a sottish kind of 
pot-companion, and light-fingered; also an ill-natured person, unless the Moon and Jupiter be in 
good aspect to Mercury." 

"The Complete Arcana of Astral Philosophy," by W. J. Simmon- 
ite, A. M., M. B. A., London, England, 1847, Vol. I, page 71, says: 

"Mercury in Cancer gives a short, squab figure, bad complexion* sad brown hair, thin face, 
sharp nose, small eyes ; dishonest, deceitful, and given to drinking."* 

I do not think the writer for the "Penny Magazine" could get 
much wider of the mark even if he tried. I have inserted the above 
Astrological Rules, in order to show the reader what kind of an accom- 
plished orator, divine, or philosopher the above writer's hero would be, 
and partly to refute the accusations brought against Astrology (by its 
enemies) that there are no rules, data, or system in that science, but 
that it is all imagination, as Thomas Dick falsely states. 

If the writer had known anything of the rules of Astrology, he would 
have known. that the "mid-heaven would not be fortified by the presence 
of Mars," but that both the Sun and the mid-heaven would be afflicted 
by its presence. Mars, like Saturn, being an evil planet, does not 
fortify, but afflicts wherever it is situated in a horoscope. 

Venus in the 10th house would have nothing to do with the native's 
marriage, or he " marrying honorably, and gaining great eminence and 
renown." Venus in the mid-heaven, in conjuntion with Mercury, would 
cause him to have. a number of female friends, very much like himself, 
and be fond of music and the fine arts, but he would probably steal both 
the music and the pictures. 

In a man's nativity we always look to the planet that the Moon first 
applies to by aspect, also the 7th house and the lord of the seventh, to 
describe the wife and the kind of marriage. The Moon first makes a 
sextile of Mars in the mid-heaven in Gemini in this horoscope, which 
describes a tall, slender, proud and straight-built, dark-complexioned 
lady, with brown hair. But so far from giving him " eminence and 
renown by his marriage," it would be quite the reverse, as his wife would 
bring him nothing but misfortune, and break him up in his business, on 
account of Mars afflicting the 10th house, and the Sun in the 10th. 

William Lilly's Introduction to Astrology by Zadkiel, Bohn's edition, 
London, England, page 302, says : 

* I could copy from twenty or thirty other authors, all describing Mercury in Cancer, but it 
would be almost a repetition of the above, and I think I have given enough to show that the writer 
is perfectly ignorant of the subject, and has not consulted a single text-book on Astrology: if he 
had he would not have made such glaring blunders. I am disposed to believe that he is publishing 
his own horoscope, as it would describe just such a person as the writer in the " Penny Magazine." 
and that is one reason why he tried to make it appear so favorable, to flatter his own vanity. 
But I must leave it to the reader to decide the question whether it is his horoscope or not. 



APPENDIX. 443 

" Mars in Gemini describes a person who is unfortunate, living in a mean way, generally shifting 
here and there, leaving debts unpaid, and exercising her wits for her livelihood ; in short, a cheva- 
lier <P Industrie, or mere swindler." 

Also, Mars being in close square to Uranus, in the 7th house, (the 
house of marriage), would cause her to be tyrannical, extravagant, and 
to have a terrible temper, in short, a regular Tartar. Also, Jupiter, lord 
of the 7th house, being retrograde, in opposition to Mercury and Venus, 
and applying to a conjunction of Saturn, would show that she would 
elope with another man, indicated by Saturn in Capricorn. 

Therefore this native "marrying so honorably and gaining great em- 
inence and renown," would come to a most disastrous end. Truly this 
"Refutation of Astrology" is a "mingled yarn" of misrepresentations 
and falsehoods, and of which the writer ought to be ashamed; but no 
doubt it is an exact description of his wife, if the time given is his own 
time of birth. Had he been versed in Astrology he would see that the 
Dragon's Tail is not afflicting any planet, and is not in the 10th house, but 
on the cusp of the 11th, consequently could not declare "death to the 
native by the sentence of a judge," unless the judge made as many mis- 
takes as the writer in " The Penny Magazine." 

If he be surprised (as he scornfully says) how one Astrologer could 
look in the face of another without laughing, I am truly astonished that 
he, presumptuous as he is, could come before the public with such pre- 
posterous untruths. I may justly say, in transposition of the words of 
Byron : 

" If Ptolemy, when his works were ended, 
Had heard this blockhead prate before him, 
To us his works had ne'er descended ; 
In furious mood he would have torn 'em." 

Although I have endeavored to be as plain as possible in attacking 
every argument brought forward by the above writer in his " Refutation 
of Astrology," yet I am aware that my remarks will not be understood 
and appreciated by the general reader as they are meant to be, unless 
he has some knowledge of that science.* 

But the most flagrant and absurd part of this farce is, that it ema- 
nates from the "Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.""!" 

* If Astrology were one-quarter as well understood as arithmetic, the writer of the " Refutation 
Of Astrology" would become the laughing stock of the whole civilized world. 

Similar to Rev. John Jasper, when he preached his sermon "The Sun Do Move." Yet two 
or three hundred years ago the Rev. John Jasper's belief was universal, and for any one known to 
believe differently it was certain death or long imprisonment. Even Galileo, at seventy years of 
age, in i6?4, was sentenced to an indefinite term of imprisonment by the Inquisition because he 
said the Sun did not move. He had to adjure, by oath, on his knees, that the Sun did move, in 
order to be liberated. 

The reason why the Reverend gentleman got himself and the Bible laughed at so extensively, 
was that he tried to prove his science by the Scriptures, as if the Bible were a text-bock on astron- 
omy. Nothing could be more absurd. 

There is no doubt that two or three hundred years hence belief in Astrology will be universal, 
and any one disbelieving in it will be considered behind the age, and laughed at like the Rev.John 
Jasper in his sermon on "The Sun Do Move." 

t A society that many of the wealthy classes of England belong to, which publishes a vast 
number of books, chiefly of a moral, religious, and popular science nature. Any respectable 
person can become a member by paying a yearly donation, and members can buy books published 
by the Societv, in any part of the British dominions, at Z5 per cent. off. 

One would think that a society of that character would engage the most talented writers that 



444 APPENDIX. 

Now, had the Nativity of some well-known character (as Lord 
Brougham, the Duke of Wellington, George Washington, etc.) been 
selected, and have proven that the rules had failed, or were not borne 
out by facts, it would have done more to condemn Astrology than if 
volumes had been written against that science. Why has this not been 
done ? Why is it not done ? Simply because it cannot be done. The 
reader may rest assured that it either cannot be done, or, if it can, the 
enemies of Astrology have not brains sufficient to do it. I think that 
one plain fact of this nature would be worth more, and would do more, 
to disprove Astrology than if a folio volume were written against it. My 
limits will not allow of saying more at present; I however consider that 
I have sufficiently shown the falsehoods of the article in question, and the 
writer's inability to disprove the rules of Astrology. I hope, should he at 
any future time be disposed to take up his pen against this science, he will 
first learn something of its principles, and know that no?ie should con- 
demn who do not understand ; and I hope he will remember 

" Nothing to extenuate, or set down aught in malice." 



On a fine starlit evening, returning from Yonkers, my wife wished 
me to point out the various constellations and planets then visible. A 
friend with us, noticing that I was familiar with the heavenly bodies, 
asked if I was an Astrologer. I answered yes, and had some conversa- 
tion with him on the subject. My friend, some time afterwards, heard 
the minister of his church saying how wicked it was to consult Astrolo- 
gers, and that the science was false, asked, et Do you, of your own know- 
ledge, know that Astrology is false ? " He answered, " I do not." My 
friend continued : "I have an acquaintance who understands Astrology, 
and he says it is true. Which must I believe?" 

could be had, or money could hire, to write for or against any subject, but the reader can see how 
deficient the writer in "The Penny Magazine" has been in his knowledge of Astrology. 

I might go on answering scores of other writers who have published articles in refutation of 
Astrology; some have published whole volumes against it. They have brought God, the Bible 
Jesus Christ, and every " thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the waters 
under the earth " against it ; and everything that could be raked up out of their own imagination. 
But I ask only one question in all these matters, that is, Is it true ? Truth is irresistible, and every 
thing that is not true vanishes before it like vapor in broad daylight. Truth is mighty and must 
prevail. 

All these writers against Astrology are generally so shallow and nonsensical that it is not worth 
while answering them. Even the article in the " Penny Magazine " was not worth answering, but 
the " Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge " gave it an eclat which caused me to notice 
it. In all the writings against Astrology that I have met with, there is one concurrent fact which 
runs through the whole of them, and which stands out prominently; that is, they are all intended 
to keep people who know nothing about it in ignorance of it. If the writers of these articles knew 
the first principles of the science they would stop writing against Astrology, and write in favor of it. 

A prominent divine in England, who had written article after article in refutation of Astrology, 
after thinking the matter over carefully, came to the conclusion that if he only had a knowledge cf 
the subject, he could write against it with more effect. So he commenced to' study it for that pur- 
pose, but there is where he made his great mistake, for, instead of continuing to write against it, 
he published one of the best text books we have on that subject, called " Butler's Astrology." I 
refer to Bishop Butler of the Episcopal Church of England. Therefore, if you wish to write ar.d 
talk against Astrology, the less you know about it the better, and you will always find that the people 
who are as ignorant as yourself will agree with you, and they are in the great majority in all Chris- 
tian countries. 

You must never study Astrology if you do not want to be convinced of its truth, and be- 
come a convert to that science. 



APPENDIX. 44 5 

Note continued, from "To the Student," page ix. 

I should not have taken any notice of the Stationers' Company buying 
the right to publish John Partridge's Almanac and Ephemeris from his 
widow, if William and Robert Chambers had not referred to it in their 
Encyclopoedia with the sole object of degrading Astrology and Astrologers. 

To convince the student that Astrologers had nothing whatever to do 
with the publication of that Almanac and Ephemeris after John Partridge's 
death, I cannot do better than quote a prediction from Mr. Partridge's 
Almanac during the time he was publishing it, and also one or two predic- 
tions from the same Almanac during the time it was published by the 
Stationers' Co. But before doing so I think it might be interesting to the 
reader to insert a passage from the Almanac and Ephemeris of Mr. Francis 
Moore, the Almanac which Rev. Thomas Dick refers to as having a yearly 
sale of 240,000 copies, and at the time when there was probably not more 
than 500,000 inhabitants in London. Then the reader can judge of the 
merits of the Almanac and its author, and I think he can readily perceive 
that Mr. Moore was well informed on the science of Astrology, especially 
in that branch, called " Mundane Astrology," and which branch is chiefly 
made use of in Astrological Almanacs. On page 14 in his prediction for the 
Spring quarter of that year which occured for the longitude of England on 
March 20th, at 51 minutes past one in the morning, he says: 

"The ground of all predictions is referred to Comets, and great conjunctions of the two 
Superiors, Saturn and Jupiter; and also of Saturn, Jupiter and Mars, in cardinal signs, and in 
angles of the heaven, near eminent fixed stars, but in the very beginning of Aries, chiefest of all. 
Now he that would discover the active, and turbulent years before they come, and when great and 
eminent things shall be transacted, or mankind suffer by some uncommon calamity or plague, 
scarcity, inundations, fire or War, he must first observe the place of the Comet, what Kingdom it 
afflicts, and also what princes' nativity it afflicts, also what kingdom or city it is vertical to, and of 
what nature this Comet is, whether Saturnine, Martial, etc, and in what year it doth afflict any 
of those countries or persons ; and secondly, let him observe at the entrance of every year, how the 
Sun, Moon or Mars, behold the place of the conjunction by Quartile or opposition, and if near any 
violent fixed star ; as also what eclipses fall in or near those points or parts of Heaven, and how 
Saturn and Mars do govern or afflict at those times, and in what part of the scheme they fall, as 
well as in what part of the Zodiac. Likewise the eclipses ought to be considered with the comets 
also, and in particular how they stand or are affected in their declinations, for I esteem that to be 
one of the most considerable incidents that doth or can attend them in this circumstance ; and then 
lastly, when you have considered all these particulars carefully, make use of the ingress of the Sun 
into the sign Aries to guide and direct you in your judgment in the discovery of what is most re- 
markable and likely to happen, in that or any other year. Besides these things there are the transits 
of Saturn through the twelve Signs, by which means", he does afflict divers Countries and Kingdoms, 
by his conjunction every thirtieth year, and by his opposition every fifteenth year. He is just 
entering Cancer, (Saturn entered Cancer the 24th of April, 1768,) those Kingdoms and Countries 
under that sign, and many others will be found uneasv and out of order, during his transit through 
that sign, .and that indeed seldom fails, without something remarkable to prevent it, as I could show 
you by going backwards, with history in one hand, and an ephemeris in the other." 

I have copied the above from Moore's Almanac for 1768, for two pur- 
poses; the first to show there is little wonder that the almanac attained 
an annual sale of two hundred and forty thousand copies, not by appealing 
to the ignorance and superstition of the people (hen living, according to the 
inferences of the Rev. Thomas Dick, but by appealing to the knowledge 
and intelligence of the public. 

The second purpose the student will readily perceive, is that he could 
not understand intelligently the reading of the two horoscopes inserted on 
pages 145 and 150, the first for the time of the Inauguration of President 
McKinley, and the second for the time the extra session of Congress met at 
Washington on March 15th, 1897, at 12 o'clock noon, without first having 
had an explanation of the principles and rules of what is termed " Mundane 
Astrology," and I find it impossible to include them in the present volume on 
account of devoting so much space to "Planetary Hours," etc. 



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The second almanac which attained the next largest circulation was that 
of John Partridge; the right of publication was afterwards bought from his 
widow. I make the following quotation from his remarks on the eclipses 
which occured in 1768; on page 38 he says: 

The Eclipses for the Year 1768. 

There will be five eclipses to the inhabitants of this globe, two of the greater luminary, the 
Sun, and three of the Moon ; they will happen in the following order: 

The first visible in England, is but a partial eclipse of the Moon, on Monday, the 4th of 
January, which begins at 3 h. 12 in. and 57 s. in the morning. The second is an invisible eclipse 
of the San on the 19th of January, at 18 m past six at night, but it 's a great and visible eclipse 
in North America. The third is a great and total eclipse of the Moon, and visible throughout 
all Europe, on the 30th of June, which begins at 2 h. 2 m. and 25 s. in the morning. The fourth 
is an invisible eclipse of the greater luminary, the Sun, on the 14th of July, near 2 in the morn- 
ing, but to those who sail on southern seas it will be a visible eclipse. The fifth and last is of the 
Moon, total and visible, on the 23d of December, which begins at 1 h. 17 m. and 45 s. in the 
evening. 

After stating the above calculations, Mr. Partridge remarks on the above 
eclipses, page 39 : 

" It is observed that Eclipses of the Sun or Moon have very rarely, if ever, happened in 
any age, when they were not attended with considerable effects, according to the magnitude 
thereof, which may be easily proved if we do but look back, and consult antiquity or the histories 
of former ages. It is the opinion of the learned Pencer, who says : 'What shall I say? Or why 
shall I trifle away my time against such as deny the influence of the heavenly bodies? Or what 
shall I say concerning the eclipses of the Sun and Moon ? Are we ourselves, rational men, ignor- 
ant that eclipses of the Sun and Moon, and the radiations, and the aspects of the other planets 
are concomitant and assistant with those eclipses, their good or bad aspects, each to the other? 
Do we not know their significations in all ages have been ominous, and have caused men's minds 
to be terrified by a secret and occult sense of the miseries and calamities these eclipses did 
presage, — to be near at hand, or immediately to follow after the same. 

" It is the judgment of several learned and experienced authors, that an eclipse of the Sun or 
Moon in the signs of either Cancer, Scorpio or Pisces, (the Watery Triplicity,) is very ominous. 
The first eclipse occurs in the 13-25 of Cancer, in the eighth house, the most evil part of the 
whole heavens. It doth usually presage deaths, destruction of the common people; many various 
and groundless fears and rumors, false intelligence, frequent risings, or seditious conspiracies, unex- 
pected mutinies in many countries, especially those under the aforesaid triplicity,— expectations 
of sudden wars, and the spirits of men generally perplexed with the affairs of the present times. 
I really wish that our sins and impieties do not hinder our welfare this year, but if we expect any 
deliverance from the evils the Celestials seem to forbode us, let us not so highly prize the things 
of the world, and grind the faces of one another, as is usual in these days. I wish the following 
rule was better observed, and put into practice. No man must do that in his own property or pro- 
fession which may hurt another man's. And we must so use our own as we may not offend and 
injure our neighbor ; let us therefore as we have occasion, do good to all men, as the apostle 
speaks, Gal. vi. 10; but how adverse and contrary the practice of these times is to this heavenly 
rule, I need not here remember; we now cry, ' Every man for himself, but God for us all ; ' but as 
one has well inverted it, 'That where every man is for himself, the devil is for all.' One of the 
greatest miseries this nation groans under, is depopulation ; 'but sure there is a woe to them that 
join house to house, and lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed above in 
the midst of the earth, Isaiah v. 8. How many houses, nay almost towns, that I know of, aie 
depopulated and ruined of late years. 

" Nay doth not the poor smart the most of all by this sore evil? viz.: The industrious poor, 
that would live by their own works and endeavors', how many of them are utterly ruined and 
spoiled thereby, and several are forced to flee into other parts of the world for haibor and a poor 
habitation. How doth the city sit solitary that was full of people? How is she become a widow? 
Lam. i. 1. 

"I heartily wish we may all of us shake off those vipers, those great enemies and curses of 
sin and oppression, as the forestalling of markets, and the engrossing of provisions into private 
hands before they are exposed to sale, whereby the industrious poor are greatly oppressed ; if we 
I say, could rid the nations of these enormities, that abound in this land, then shall that of the 
prophet be undoubtedly verified, and made good unto us. Then shall we have no cause to fear 
the face of the greatest oppressor, depopulators and racking landlords." 

I have given the above lengthy extract from John Partridge's Almanac 
for 1768, to show that at that time, the publisher was a firm believer in 
the Science of Astrology, and understood the science ; also to show that 
he was a believer in the Bible, as a pious strain appears to run through all 
his writings.^ In England the tax-ridden people complained of the same 
unjust taxation and oppression, that the American colonies were suffering 
from, and which resulted in the Revolution of 1776, and that in those 
davs there were the same racking landlords, trusts and speculators and 
moneyed men forestalling the market of wheat and other eatables of the 



APPENDIX. 447 

poor as they are at the present day. It is very probable that the pious 
strain of the author of the Almanac, and the large profits from its sale 
were the reasons which induced the Stationers' Company to purchase the 
right of publication from Mr. Partridge's widow. I have not been able to 
find in what year that pious company bought the right to publish the 
almanac, but it probably was near 1792 or 1793, as I see the predictions in 
those years did not require an Astrologer to write them, and they gradually 
became worse from year to year. 

I will here give two predictions that were made in Partridge's Almanac 
in 1833, and any person can readily perceive that those who wrote them 
were ignorant of the science. One was the prediction for the month of June, 
1833, which says: "Many of our political clergy expose themselves to the 
just animadversions of the public; let such beware, or they may find, per- 
haps, when too late, that they had better have kept within the province of 
their calling, when all thoughtful men would respect them." 

The next prediction which I here insert was for the month of November, 
1833, which says: "Great and important things are now or will ere long 
be under consideration; I wish it may be for the good of the English 
nation. The western parts of this kingdom send bad news from the watery 
element, of boisterous storms and tempest, proving very prejudicial to the 
adventurers thereon." 



They generally have bad weather near the British Islands in November, 
every year, and that is the month in which the greatest number of suicides are 
committed in England on account of the gloomy and depressing weather. 
The two above predictions were all that was published for the months of 
June and November in Partridge for 1833. The predictions for the other 
months, and other years are similar in every way. 

I do not think that Astrologers ought to be blamed for those pious 
persons making the above predictions, as they had nothing to do with 
publishing such almanacs, and especially Partridge's almanac in 1833, as ^ 
is evident from the reading that the persons who wrote them had no knowl- 
edge whatever of Astrology. Therefore William and Robert Chambers 
and all such revilers against Astrology ought to put the saddle on the right 
horse's back. 

I refer the reader to page 000, for further information on this subject. 

One of the main reasons why I inserted the two lengthy predictions from 
the almanacs of 1768 was partly on account of their being so many eclipses 
in that year, and also its being a year in which really the American Revolu- 
tion commenced. 

Knight in his history of England when writing the events that occured 
in 1768, in Vol. v., page 123, says: "The imposing of duties in America 
on glass, red and white lead, painter's colors, paper and tea, form the 
prologue to the tragedy of the American Revolution." The student 
will remember that nearly all the assemblies in the colonies, passed resolu- 
tions repudiating those duties, and Knight says: "Lord Hillsborough, 
Secretary of the Colonies, was directed to require in the King's name that 
these be rescinded, and if they refused, immediately to dissolve them." And 
on page 125 he says: "The King on opening Parliament on the 8th of 
November 1768, spoke in severe terms, of the proceedings in North America." 

In John Partridge's account of the various eclipses which occured in 
1768, that of the Sun on the 1 8th of January, although invisible in 
England, he says : " It is a great and -visible eclipse in North America.'''' 

There was an unusual number of eclipses during that year, there being 
five in all. 



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The student should bear in mind that the large number of eclipses of 
1768, were not the only cause of the Revolution of 1776, although they 
were the cause of "the prologue to the tragedy of the American Revolu- 
tion." The real cause was the planet Uranus entering the sign Gemini, 
which sign rules the United States. On the 25th of June, 1774, Uranus 
entered Gemini, but it only reached 2°.22 / on September 19th, and then it 
retrograded and re-entered the sign Taurus, December 1st, 1774. But 
during the short time Uranus was in the sign Gemini, the American Con- 
gress met at Philadelphia on the 5th of September, and the delegates to that 
Congress from Virginia were Col. Washington, Peyton Randolph, Richard 
Henry Lee, Patrick Henry, Richard Bland, Benjamin Harrison and Edmund 
Pendleton. The Congress passed a Declaration of Rights addressed to the 
King, and recommended a suspension of all commercial relations with the 
mother country and adjourned to meet May 10th, 1775. 

Uranus re-entered the sign Gemini, on the 8th of April 1775, and the 
Battle of Lexington was fought on the 19th of April, 1775. Uranus con- 
tinued in the sign Gemini until July 15th, 1781, when it entered the sign 
Cancer. Lord Cornwallis surrendered to General Washington at York- 
town on Oct. 19th, 1781. Butler in his history of the United States, on 
page 154, says: "The war was virtually closed with the surrender of 
Cornwallis, occasional skirmishes alone indicated its continuance." 

Uranus retrograded into Gemini on the 25th of January, 1782, and 
remained thereuntil May, 1782, but during these three months that Uranus 
was in Gemini, its influence was still felt, and we read in " Butler's History," 
on page 154, "The treasury was bankrupt, commerce destroyed, business 
neglected and the army unpaid. Congress was powerless, for its jurisdiction 
was undefined or disputed. Under these circumstances, the troops, the 
great bulk of whom were encamped at Newburgh on the Hudson, became 
restless, impatient and finally mutinous, and failing to obtain relief from 
Congress, besought Washington to make himself king and manage affairs 
after his own judgment. To prevent a mutiny, Washington called a meeting 
of the generals to arrange some method of pacification." The meeting was 
called and General Gage was elected chairman. 

Gen. Washington in opening the meeting took his spectacles from his 
pocket, to enable him to read his speech, remarking in his quiet way: "I 
have grown gray in your service, and now I am growing blind 5 but I never 
doubted the justice of my country, or its gratitude." No stroke of oratory 
could have moved so many hearts, as did this unaffected language of 
Washington. (Norton's "Life of Washington," page 515.) 

A preliminary treaty of peace was signed at Paris, November 30th, 1782. 

I find in the list of eclipses, both of the Sun and Moon, from 1850 
to 1898 inclusive, there are only five years in which five eclipses occur 
in one year, and each of these periods were attended with remarkable events 
or occurences in different parts of the world. I have not space to enumerate 
them all or the years in which they occurred, but there is no doubt that the 
great number of eclipses in 1768, had a great deal to do with England losing 
her American colonies; but it is not altogether the number of eclipses that 
occur in a single year, it depends chiefly if those eclipses are what are termed 
total, or they occur, as Francis Moore says, "in vertical places in the heavens 
or in prominent positions in princes' horoscopes." 

From 1850 to 1898 inclusive I find that there are four of those years 
that have six eclipses, the last year was in 1880, and the year following 
was remarkable for the large increase of sickness and epidemics, and the 
great number of accidents, inundations, cyclones and misfortunes of almost 



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449 



all kinds, so much so that the " New York Herald," near the end of the 
year devoted a whole page of that paper reciting the various misfortunes 
that had occured in 1881, and there scarcely was a day in the whole year, 
that there was not some serious accident or misfortune, such as shipwrecks 
and other disasters and calamities. Cholera was epidemic in almost all 
parts of Europe, especially in Egypt and France, particularly at Marseilles 
and Toulon. 

The time previous to 1880, when six eclipses occured in one year, was 
in 1870, and the most remarkable event of that time was the war between 
Germany and Franc which commenced in July, 1870, it was a terribly 
destructive war, both to Lie *r J property, and Louis Napoleon met with his 
Waterloo, and surrendered to the Empero o c G rmany at Sedan, September 
1st, 1870. Paris also capitulated to the German Army after being besieged for 
a long time, and a great Revolution occured in that city afterwards called the 
" Commune." The Empire of France was abolished and a Republic was 
inaugurated. Alsace and Lorraine were ceded to Germany, besides France 
paying a heavy indemnity. 

The great fire in Chicago occured in 1 871, which was soon after followed 
by the great fire of Boston ; but the planet Uranus, not afflicting the sign 
which governs the United States, this country was not specially afflicted with 
any other serious calamity or political disturbance. 

The time previous to 1870 when six eclipses occured in one year was in 
1859. On the 1 6th of October in that year, John Brown, with 21 associates, 
seized the United States Arsenal, at Harper's Ferry, intending to arm there- 
from such slaves as would join them. He held the position for two days, but 
no slaves came, and his adherents were captured, tried, and executed. 
"This was the prologue to the tragedy of the rebellion of the Southern States." 
But as I stated above the great number of eclipses in 1768, was not the 
only cause of the Revolution in 1776, but the main cause was the planet 
Uranus entering the sign Gemini. So the extraordinary number of eclipses 
in 1859 was not l he only cause of the commencement of the rebellion of the 
Southern States, but as in the case of the rebellion of the American Colonies 
against the mother country 84 years before, or one revolution of that 
planet, when it re-entered Gemini on the 8th of April, 1775, and the battle 
of Lexington was fought April 19th, 1775, an d the revolution lasted until 
Uranus left that sign and entered Cancer 5 Lord Cornwallis surrendered to 
General Washington at Yorktown, October 19th, 1781. Uranus left Gem- 
ini July 15th, 1781. 

Uranus again entered the sign Gemini the second time in the history of 
the United States, on the 12th of March, 1859, which was the main cause 
of the excitement and hanging of John Brown, and the commotion in the 
Southern States on account of the "slavery question," caused by the Aboli- 
tionists in the North. Uranus turned retrograde on the 15th of September, 
1859, an d continued retrograding until the 10th of February, i860, and it 
retrograded almost out of the sign Gemini, which caused the commotion to 
almost die out, but on that day Uranus turned direct and continued in the 
sign Gemini until the 25th of June, 1865. 

The Civil War commenced with the firing on Fort Sumter, April 
13th, 1 861, when the war-like planet Mars, formed a square of Uranus in 
Gemini ; and the war was practically ended, by the surrender of Gen. 
Robert E. Lee to Gen. Grant, April 9th, 1865, when Uranus was just 
leaving Gemini. 

In 1852 was the next previous period when we had six eclipses in one 
year; in that year there was great excitement caused by religious disputes, 
(and even riots) between the Catholics and Protestants, especially in Phila- 



45° APPENDIX. 

delphia. In that year the United States was on the point of war with G; at 
Britain on account of the "fishery question," but it was settled in U,t 
following year. There was also nnlch excitement over the "slavery ques- 
tion," the North being very much incensed because of the fugitive slave 
law, and the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill, which nullified the " Mis- 
souri Compromise ;" the bill was introduced into the Senate by Stephen A. 
Douglass, which was violently opposed by the North. 

In 1 85 1 about six hundred adventurers, familiarly known as "Filibus- 
ters," undertook to annex Cuba to the United States. Led by General 
Lopez, they landed on the Cuban coast, but were captured, and the leaders 
were shot without any interposition on the part of the United States govern- 
ment. Their execution created great sympathy throughout the civilized 
world. 

There was also some trouble caused by the Mormons in Utah ; but the 
planet Uranus not being in the sign Gemini, but Neptune only afflicting 
that sign by a square from the sign Pisces, the government was enabled to 
settle it without war or revolution. 



There will be six eclipses in 1898, as follows : a partial eclipse of the Moon, 
Jan. 7 j a total eclipse of the Sun, Jan. 22 ; a total eclipse of the Moon, 
July 3d 5 an annular eclipse of the Sun, July 18th ; a partial eclipse of the 
Sun, Dec. 13th, and a total eclipse of the Moon, Dec. 27th.* There has 
not been a year in almost a century in which there was such marked phen- 
omena, of total or annular eclipses, and I look for some remarkable events, 

* In counting back for a period of nearly fifty years, I find the highest number of eclipses 
that occured in one year was six, and the lowest number two, tiie average is a little over three 
in a year. But in looking back for a long period, I have not found any year where there was more 
than six eclipses. The eclipse of the Sun is counted the most evil in its influence, and a total 
eclipse of the Sun is the most evil, but the influence chiefly depends on whether the eclipse falls 
vertical over any particular country, or in any sign which rules any particular nation ; or whether 
it falls in any marked evil position or place in the King's, Queen's, Emperor's or Czar"s horoscope 
ruling any particular nation. 

To prove that nearly all the Eastern Nations regard eclipses of the Sun as portending calam- 
ity an (^disaster, even up to the present day, I copy the following from the " New York Evening 
Sun,'' Dec. 29th, 1897: 

" The Stale Department at Washington, has received by mail from Charles Denby. the 
United States Minister to China, a copy of an official decree issued by the Emperor setting forth 
the ancient superstition of the Orientals that the eclipse of the Sun portends disaster. 

The eclipse will occur on the first day of the 24th year of the reign Kuang Hau, and the 
Emperor is filled with forebodings as to its effects. In view of the troubles which have beset 
China the predictions contained in the decree are remarkable. The decree is as follows : 

'" According to the Chun Chiu (Spring and Autumn annals) it has been stated that an eclipse 
of the Sun on the first day of the year betokens an impending calamity, hence the Sovereigns of 
every dynasty which has preceded us has always made it a point, whenever an eclipse of the Sun 
is prognosticated, to undergo self-abasement and humble themselves before heaven in order to 
avert the wrath from above. 

" In the case of our own imperial dynasty, for instance, during the reign of their Majesties 
Kang Hsi and Chen Lung (1662-1794,) there were observed-two eclipses of the Sun, which fell each 
on New Year's day ; and now, according to the Board of Astronomy, the first day of the 241I1 year 
of our reign (Jan 22d, 1898,) there will be yet another eclipse of the Sun We are filled with fore- 
bodings at this news, and hasten to seek within ourselves for signs which may have thus brought 
upon the land the wrath of high Heaven. 

'• We further command that the ceremonies of congratulation usually held on New Year's 
day in the Taiho Throne Hall to be curtailed, and only ordinary obeisances be made, the \ lace 
being changed to the Chien Tsing Throne Hall. The banquet usually given to the clansmen on 
New Year's day must be stopped, and when the eclipse occurs let all members of the couit wear 
sombre garments and assemble in the inner place before the altar set up to Heaven to pray for 
forbearance and mercy to the country at large. 

"This is as far as we shall concern ourselves to show our desire to propitiate high Heaven, 
but as her Majesty the Empress Dowager is an elder and senior, it is but right that the full cere- 
monies be observed in paving the court's obeisances on New Year's day to her Majesty. Let all 
the Yamens concerned take note." 



The fact that the eclipse which takes place on the 22d of January, 1898, occurs on the Chinese 
New Year's day, will have no more effect than if it had occured on any other day of the year. 



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calamities and disasters occijrlng during the year 1898, but of what nature it 
is difficult to say without close calculations. 

The two evil planets, Saturn and Uranus, will be near a conjunction in the 
sign Saggitarius, in opposition to Gemini, which sign rules the United States, 
and remain in that sign the whole year, excepting when Uranus retrogrades 
into Scorpio on the 5th of July, but re-enters Saggitarius again on the 10th 
of September. Mars comes to the opposition of both of these planets in the 
month of July, 1898. Also the planet Neptune is now in the sign Gemini, 
and afflicting the United States, and remains in that sign until the end ok 
1900. It is unreasonable to expect 1898 will close without some seiious 
misfortune or calamity afflicting this country. There certainly is much 
danger of war with some other nation, and there is no doubt that during 
1898 there will be some disastrous war in some other country equal to the 
Franco-Prussian War of 1870, and that Germany will be involved and will 
meet with serious affliction or disaster. It will be curious if all these nations 
ruled by the sign in which the total eclipse of the Sun on Jan. 22, 1898, 
occurs keeps out of war during 1898 and 1899. The time Prince Henry, 
brother to the Emperor of Germany, set sail from Kiel, Germany, for China, 
Dec. 16th, 1897, at 9 A. M., was a remarkably evil period, and he is certain 
to meet with serious disaster and misfortune. See chart of the heavens for 
that date on page 000. 

In tracing back the periods when Uranus was transiting through the sign 
Gemini, which rules the United States, and when six eclipses occured in one 
year, there is another part belonging to " Mundane Astrology," which I 
would like to have introduced here but could not do it without dan- 
ger of confusion to the student or the general reader. I refer to Comets. 
Francis Moore says in his almanac of 1768 : "The ground of all predic- 
tions is referable to Comets and great conjunctions of the two superior 
planets, Saturn and Jupiter." [Uranus was not then discovered.] 

Noah Webster, the author of " Webster's Dictionary, in his History of 
Epidemics and Pestilential Diseases," attributes the cause of those devas- 
tating calamities, cyclones, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions, to the 
influence of Comets 5 he says in tracing back through history for a period 
of over two thousand years, whenever these phenomena and disastrous 
events occured they have always been preceded or accompanied by Comets. 

The great disasters and misfortunes which overtook the Christians 
in their wars with the Turks, whenever a Comet appeared, induced the 
Pope of Rome to direct prayers to the Almighty beseeching him to avert 
their baleful and calamitous influence. The Pope also anathematized a 

First : Had the eclipse occured in the sign which governs China, that nation might then have 
felt its evil influence in a marked degree. 

Second : Had it taken place in an angle in the Emperor's horoscope, especially the ascend- 
ant or mid-heaven, or 

Third : Had it fallen on, or near the Sun or Moon's place, or in any evil position in his horo- 
scope, then not only the Emperor, but the whole Chinese people would have felt its influence ai.d 
it would cause some calamity or disaster to afflict that nation. 

But China will feel some of its evil influence, as I find that this eclipse commences in the north 
of China, which is in the line of its central track, and it will be seen to great advantage throughout 
the whole of China, and in some parts of that country it will be vertical, and these parts will fee) 
its influence the most. 

There is more danger that Arabia, Russia. Turkey, Prussia, Poland and Sweeden, will feel 
more of the evil influence of this eclipse than China, as it falls in the sign of the Zodiac which 
governs these countries. It will also be visible in all these countries except Sweeden. and if it 
happens to afflict the horoscopes of the rulers of those countries then they will feel its effect all the 
more. England will feel its evil influence in a marked degree, as the sign Aquarius, the sign in 
which the eclipse occurs, rules the affairs of State of that nation. 

It is very foolish for the " Emperor of China to command his subjects to wear sombre gar- 
ments, and to assemble before the altar set up to heaven, and pray for forbearance and mercy dur- 
ing the time of the eclipse.'' as it will have about as much effect as the "Pope's bull against the 
Comet." The Emneror should command his people, to prepare to meet, or combat the disaster 
that is impending over them. 



45 2 APPENDIX. 

Comet which made its appearance in the early part of the 15th century, 
which has always been referred to as the " Pope's hull againsj the Comet." 
It is evident that four or five hundred years ago that nearly all Professors of 
the Christian religion regarded Comets as threatening great calamities or 
disasters which caused them to pray to God to guard them against or avert 
their evil influence. 

I shall only refer here to four Comets which of late years have appeared. 
One Comet appeared in 1852, which had in its previous visit to our solar 
system divided into two, and the parts were one and one-quarter millions of 
miles from each other, on this their second visit. Another one, appeared in 
the Fall of 1858, which many believe to this day, presaged the war of 1861. 
I remember distinctly walking out on the hills at Frankford, near Phila- 
delphia, and observing the Comet when it was setting in the West after the 
Sun, its nucleus just above the horizon, and its tail extending to the meridian. 
It was to me an awful and grand sight. There was another Comet that 
appeared in the early part of 1861. 

Another remarkable Comet made its appearance before the commence- 
ment of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870. 

When we look back through history and observe these various phenom- 
ena in the heavens and their effect on the earth and its inhabitants, is it 
any wonder that we should exclaim in the language of Shakespeare, " Can 
such things be and overcome us like a summer cloud, without our special 
wonder?" 

I do not see why such men as Richard A. Proctor should call persons 
who pay attention to these subjects, "silly, ignorant rogues, charlatans, un- 
scrupulous rascals, and lying knaves," especially when we can find by calcula- 
tions the time these eclipses, and other phenomena occur, and as John 
Partridge says: "They may be easily proved, if we do but look back and 
consult the history of former ages." 

I can only answer such men as Prof. Proctor, in the words of Hamlet, 
when he says : " There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than 
are dreamt of in your philosophy." 



"To the Student," continued from page xii. 

There are a great number of people like Prof. Roeback, who undertake 
to advertise themselves exten sively as Astrologers, when they do not have 
the remotest idea of even the meaning of the word " Astrology." To ex- 
plain I will give an instance : My brother, M. A. Broughton, came from 
England to New York, and shortly afterwards went to Philadelphia ; while 
there he got several orders to write nativities, but having left his books 
and ephemeris in New York, he called upon Dr. Roeback, and requested 
the privilege of copying the planet's places of certain years and days 
from Roeback 1 s Ephemeris. My brother had one of his own ephemeris 
with him which he had published in England, and explained to Dr. 
Roeback what he wanted. Roeback replied by saying: "That is all 
humbug; that is no Astrology," and showed him a small almanac, such 
as is published by patent medicine men, and said: "This is the real 
Astrology." It is astonishing what harm such men as Dr. Roeback can do 
a science which they pretend to follow or practice, especially that of 
Astrology, of which so few persons have a knowledge. 

I do not wish to say a word against clairvoyants, palmists, mind-readers, 
phrenologists, spiritualists and card-cutters, as I believe a number of them 
are honest in their calling. But at the same time these professions have 
nothing whatever to do with the science of Astrology, although they are 
often classed as Astrologers. 



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Note continued from bottom of page 34. 

* We have another remarkable instance of the power of hypnotism in that of Mr. Nelson M. 
Weeks, superintendent of a Sunday-school in Hackensack, N. J., over Miss Aimee Smith, who 
was a teacher in the same school and also organist in the church. The newspapers state that at 
an evening sociable Mr. Weeks tried his mesmeric influence on Aimee and she easily became 
under his control, so much so that after a while the people in the room begged of him to bring her 
out of the hypnotic state ; but it appears that the influence continued, even when she was not 
hypnotized, and afterwards they were often seen together by neighbors and friends, until finally 
she was taken suddenly ill and afterwards died, it was supposed of poison, in the Victor Hotel, 
near 26th Street and Third Avenue, New York, March 8th, 1897, where they had registered as 
man and wife. Mr. Weeks after calling a doctor departed. 

Neither Harry Hayward nor Mr. Weeks are what are termed professional magnetizers. I 
have seen a number of remarkable instances of hypnotic power of one person over another in pub- 
lic lectures and museums, by professionals, in New York and other cities, by both ladies and gen- 
tlemen who make it a business to train themselves to hypnotize people. These facts prove 
beyond a question that there is some remarkable influence or secret power which one person has 
over another. This influence is brought to bear in relieving pain and suffering in sick people, 
and even curing disease, which goes under the various names of mind-healing, Christian science, 
mesmerism, hypnotism, clairvoyancy and massage, and nearly one-half of the people in the cities, 
if not in the country towns, are firm believers in one or the other of those various isms or so-called 
sciences, and make use of them in curing nervousness and other complaints. 

Note continued from bottom of page 41. 

f The reader may be so interested in the lawsuit referred to on page 41, 
that he may wish to know how we finally came out of those persecutions. 

In the $100 damages, which the jury awarded Mr. James McDermott 
while Mr. Chaney was confined in jail, Chaney and his lawyer made a plea 
for a new trial, but the judge reserved his decision. Mr. Chaney went 
down to the City Hall and saw the clerk of the court every day, except 
Sunday, for about six weeks, and each day received the same answer from 
the clerk of the court, which was, that the judge had not yet rendered his 
decision; finally he was told that the judge had rendered a decision, and that 
he was to have a new trial, but he was to make application within a month 
from the time the decision was rendered, the month having already expired. 
Mr. Chaney became so disgusted with New York Court proceedings,- that 
he gave the matter up in despair of ever having a new trial, and said : " It's 
no use attempting to do anything with such a corrupt judiciary." The 
reader ought to bear in mind that this was during the regime of William M. 
Tweed, and at the same period referred to by the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, 
when he said : " That the judges of New York City were so corrupt that 
they actually stunk." 

The following is a specimen of Mr. Chaney 's writing, and a sample of 
editorials written by a Western Editor during the forties and fifties, and is 
a true account of what we had to endure at 814 Broadway, New York, 
which at the time was thought to be the centre of the Metropolis of the 
Western Hemisphere. So far as my memory serves me, it is strictly true, 
even to the letter, yet I was sued for libel by Alexander Eagleson for print- 
ing it in the " Planet Reader." The part of the article that Mr. Eagleson's 
lawyer construed as libelous was, where it states, "the landlord seems pos- 
sessed of a mania for sign-stealing." Mr. John Townsend, Eagleson's 
lawyer and also lawyer for Mr. James Gordon Bennett, of the New York 
Herald, stated in his argument, when pleading for heavy damages before the 
jury, "that it was plainly a libel, that Mr. Eagleson had only stolen Dr. 
Broughton's signs, and that he had not gone from one end of Broadway to 
the other stealing all the signs he could lay his hands on, and carting them 
off," he gave as a precedent, that a "certain gentleman had got heavy dam- 
ages against a newspaper which stated that the gentleman had been going 



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around stealing bread, and all that they could prove against the defendant 
was 'that he had stolen one loaf/ " The jury brought Jin a verdict ^against 
me for six cents damages, and six cents costs. 

I might here remark, that previous to becoming acquainted with me, 
Mr. Chaney had looked upon Astrology with supreme contempt and de- 
rision, and thought a person of ordinary intelligence, or who could read and 
write, could have no faith in the science. The first time he came to visit 
me, looking at my library, he remarked : " Why, you don't believe in 
Astrology ? " After becoming acquainted with me the whole current of his 
life was changed, and he has devoted over 30 years to the study and investi- 
gation of that despised and persecuted science. 

The following is copied from Broughton's Monthly Planet Reader and 
Astrological Journal, for April, 1867. 

UNPARALLELED OUTRAGES RELIGIOUS MEETINGS BROKEN UP BY 

ROWDIES PERSECUTION AGAINST ASTROLOGY SPECIMENS 

OF NEW YORK JUSTICE BY W. H. CHANEY. 



"I shall now devote my life to Astrology, and come what may, never 
shrink from being its defender. ,y 

Such was the remark we made to Dr. Broughton last October, after having 
become thoroughly convinced, not only of the truthfulness of Astrology, but 
that it was the most precious science ever made known to man. 

"You will find that you will have enough to do, then," replied the 
doctor, quietly. 

He had seen service as an apostle in the cause ; had been driven out of 
Pennsylvania by the passage of a law punishing with imprisonment any one 
who should presume to practice the celestial science, and he knew that the 
life of an Astrologer was anything but pleasant. Well, we have had six 
months experience, and though not very brilliant, we propose giving it to 
the public. 

After forming the resolution aforesaid, we made arrangements with the 
Doctor to live in his family, lecture for, and study with him. We gave the 
first course of lectures upon Astrology ever delivered in this country, and on 
each occasion Dr. B. examined one or more Nativities before the audience, 
giving most wonderful tests of the accuracy with which the events of life can 
be calculated by a knowledge of the influence and movements of the heaven- 
ly bodies. For a time the undertaking went on swimmingly, and we began 
to boast of victory. 

"Don't be too sanguine," quoth the Doctor, "for you and I have some 
evil aspects approaching which will be likely to tell against us." 

The beginning of the year proved that he was right. All hands ill and 
hard times generally. Then the Herald, the " satanic press," commenced 
its villainous abuse of " 8 14 Broadway." The place was styled the "Ghoul's 
Garrett," and all who came here denominated us infidels and blasphemers. 
As for ourselves, we were described as "the chief ghoul of the den," "a 
played-out bruiser," and a " used up prize fighter," together with other ex- 
pressions equally flattering, and charteristic of a journal whose proprietor 
has been cowhided through the streets, on sundry occasions, on occount of 
the eloquence of his language applied to gentlemen who never injured him. 

As might be expected, these puffs of the "satanic," brought a class of 
rowdies to disturb our lectures, and for some weeks our prospects looked 
gloomy enough. This was the beginning of trouble. 



APPENDIX. 



455 



On the nth of February, the owner of the premises, evidently anxious 
to drive the Doctor away, commenced stealing his signs, placards, bulletins, 
door-plates, etc., which were placed at the door. In vain the Doctor remon- 
strated. The landlord seemed possessed of a mania for sign stealing. He 
is a queer genius, and as the public may be interested, as well as posterity, 
in knowing who he is, we will say that the first two letters of his name is — 
Alexander Eagleson, and his place of business is No. 43 Fourth Avenue. 

When Eagleson had stolen "in the neighborhood of twenty signs," as 
he admitted to police officer Waldron, of the Broadway squad, Dr. B. pro- 
cured a warrant and had him arrested. He was taken before Justice Dodge, 
of Jefferson Market Police Court, and — promptly discharged I Three hours 
later, Eagleson stole three more signs. The Doctor persisted in putting down 
others as fast as they were stolen, and Eagleson persisted in stealing them as 
fast as put down. This made lively times in the sign business. 

On the evening of the day when he was so honorably acquitted by Justice 
Dodge, Eagleson stole another sign, making the fourth for that day. This 
time the Doctor concluded to try and capture the stolen property. But 
Eagleson is a very enterprising man, and a firm believer in the maxim — 
" hold fast all you get." So, doubling his fist, when the Doctor approached, he 
let fly, and the next moment there was an Astrologer rolling on the sidewalk. 
Nothing daunted, the Doctor came to time, slightly under the influence of 
Mars, yet restrained from committing murder through the benevolent Jupiter. 

" Why don't you sue me again before Judge Dodge ?" sneered Eagleson. 

To make a long story short, the Astrologer persevered, called in the 
aid of a policeman, and finally the sign stealer and sign was captured, taken 
to the station house and locked up for the night. Next morning charges of 
theft, and assault and battery, were preferred, and upon hearing the evidence, 
Justice Dodge bound him over to the Court of Sessions. This was on the 
1 2th of March, but from that day to this (April 29th), not a word more has 
been heard about it.* 

Before Sol had culminated in the midheaven, on the day Eagleson was 
bound over, his son-in-law, a simple-minded youth, with more brass than 
brains, allowed himself to be persuaded into trying his hand at sign stealing. 
The alarm was sounded by the boy on watch, and then the excitement com- 
menced. The Doctor started at a 2.40 gait, without waiting for his hat, 
while we followed at a more dignified pace. 

"Stop thief! Stop thief ! Stop thief ! " 

Men ran; boys yelled; women screamed; dogs barked. Down Broad- 
way ran the thief to Tenth street, then across to Fourth avenue, then down 
to the Bible Honse, when he dodged into the place of Eagleson and locked 
the door. 

The crowd gathered, blocking up the sidewalk, every one asking — 

" What is it ? What is it ? " 

We happened to be blessed with a pretty good pair of lungs, and having 
learned to speak in the open air by "stump speaking in the west," very 
obligingly informed the crowd it was nothing only that Eagleson and his 
thievish hirelings had been stealing Dr. Broughton's signs. Each new arrival 
repeated the inquiry, and being a very good natured man, we answered the 
question over and over again. 

* When Mr. Eagleson was bound over to appear at the Court of Sessions, Justice Dodge told 
me that we would be notified when to appear against him, but we never were, although Mr. 
Chaney and mv wife went to the District Attorney's office a number of times to make inquiry when 
we were to appear in court, and each time they were told that we would be notified. Mr. Eagle- 
son was discharged, because we did not appear against him as complainants, as we were not noti- 
fied, and I was arrested and had to give heavy bail, a^d was sued for $10,000 damages, for false 
imprisonment. 



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Several policemen collected and demanded admission. But the thief 
refused to unlock the door. He then went into a back room, out of sight, 
and the next moment such a chopping, hewing and slashing, we never heard. 
Of course he was not chopping up the sign — " no, I guess not " — he was 
only getting some wood ready for building a fire next morning. He's a very 
innocent youth — the landlord's son-in-law — he is. 

About this time two smart looking citizens forced their way through the 
crowd and asked the officers if they wanted any help. The officers began 
to explain how matters stood, when Eagleson himself came up and ordered 
everybody away from his premises, cursing, swearing and blaspheming in a 
style that would have put to blush even a " plug ugly." 

"That's the man who stole Dr. Brougton's signs yesterday, and slept in 
the station house for it last night!" we exclaimed, pointing to the sign- 
stealer. 

This enraged him beyond description, and had we been within his reach, 
it is not likely that we should have lived to write this article. As it was, he 
gave vent to his insane wrath by pushing the two gentlemen before alluded 
to, notwithstanding they had exhibited their badges as detectives. 

"I don't care a G D n who you are ! " shouted the infuriated 

sign-stealer, giving them a violent push backwards. 

Haifa minute later the sign-stealer might have been seen walking in the 
direction of the Station House, politely attended by two detectives. He was 
taken before a magistrate, " and on account of his nuell-knoivn respectability, 
instantly discharged 1 1 1" But the crowning act of his effrontery is yet to 
be told. He preferred a complaint against the detectives for arresting him, 
and on the examination boasted that he was worth $135,000. He also 
availed himself of the opportunity to state under oath that " Dr. Broughton's 
principal business was to blaspheme against God ? " 

But we must return to the crowd in front of the Bible House. When 
Eagleson was arrested, his hopeful son-in-law, having got his nvood chopped 
for morning, unlocked the door, and in a voice tremulous with emotion on 
account of his wife's father being again brought to grief, so soon after having 
passed a restless night in a thief's cell, bitterly exclaimed : 

"Now let him go," pointing to the retreating figure of his unhappy 
father-in-law j "you got the wrong man — I'm the man, gentlemen." 

" He's arrested for assaulting an officer," replied one of the policemen, 
"and now we want the man who stole the sign." 

" There's no sign here," added young hopeful, "and I forbid you search- 
ing for it unless you have a warrant." 

But we felt sure that we could identify the relics of the sign if allowed 
a glance at the young man's pile of kindling wood, and by request of the 
officers we went in. 

" Who are you ? Go out o' here ! " cried the industrious wood chopper. 

The officers concluded that we had better go out, and not feeling inclined 
to contest the point, we amiably assented. We had not taken two steps 
towards the door before the wood-chopper seized us by the collar. It must 
have been a comical sight, he a "feather weight," pulling away at our 180 
lbs. avoirdupois. We thanked him for his polite attentions, assuring him 
that we could go very well without his assistance. But he was too much of 
a gentleman not to lead us to the door, and by a gentle push, hinted that 
our company was not agreeable to one of his caliber of brain. 

The next act in the drama, which is still in danger of becoming a 
tragedy, was for the Doctor to sue Eagleson in the Supreme Court, for five 
hundred dollars damage on account of stealing his signs, service of which 
was made March 22d. 



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457 



Then came a change of programme. Evidently disgusted with the slow 
progress he was making to put down Astrology by stealing signs, he 
abandoned that mode of attack. Under pretence of leasing to the Fenians, 
as a drill room, the floor over the one occupied by the Doctor, on the night 
of that day that Eagleson was sued for five hundred dollars, there came such 
a motly crowd, Rag, Tag and Bobtail, as has not been seen since the days of 
Falstaff, and tumbling, swearing, thundering up the stairs, under the 
leadership of the eminent wood-chopper, thev piled into the rooms overhead. 

Fenians? It is a base slander against men who have devoted their lives 
for redressing the wrongs of the oppressed, to charge upon them such out- 
rageous acts of cruelty and barbarism as have been perpetrated here for the 
last three weeks. No, they were not Fenians, but loafers, vagrants, thieves 
and pickpockets, gathered up from the slums of the city, and ripe for any 
outrage, provided they were filled with bad whiskey. Fenians, indeed ! We 
venture there is not a Fenian in the United States who would not scorn to 
associate with such rowdies, much less be a party to their acts of infamy. 

It was evident that the wood-chopper had found his level at last, and he 
was in his glory. Not satisfied with the infernal din made by himself and 
motly crew, simply because Mrs. Broughton pushed the door to a little, so 
that she could see down the stairs, he broke out — 

" The fust one that shets that door agin, I'll cut their G d d 

head off!" 

He might have spoken more grammatically and less profanely — but 
what can be expected from a wood-chopper ? 

Shortly after, Mrs. B. went again to look down the stairs for the Doctor, 
when the wood-chopper hurled a piece of board at her head, which would 
no doubt have caused her death had it hit her. 

But we need not dwell upon the details of this series of outrages which 
have been continued to the present writing. In vain we have appealed to 
the officers of the law for protection. We were all under evil aspects, and 
no one would do anything. 

One evening they came as usual, but remained until nearly two o'clock 
in the morning. Several times during the night they tried the doctor's 
door, making threats like this : 

"Let's break down the door and bring out the d d sons of b s!" 

Of course there was no sleep for the doctor nor his family, for we were 
all in momentary expectation of being obliged to defend ourselves with our 
lives against a horde of drunken rowdies. Mrs. B. had been suffering from 
poor health all winter, and now, so great was the shock to her nervous sys- 
tem that her senses wandered and her life was in peril. 

One day after the persecutions had been contined for a week, the wood- 
chopping son-in-law had the impudence to speak to Mrs. Broughton upon 
the subject. He evidently came as a spy, to find out what he could, yet was 
weak enough to let out what Eagleson and the "Satanic" will not thank 
him for. 

" O, 'twont cost my father-in-law anything," exclaimed the simpleton, 
"for he's done jest as Bennett's lawyers told him to, and they'll pay all 
damages." 

We will not pretend to say whether the fellow lied or not,- but if he did 
He, it is a remarkable coincidence that Galhraith, who has office in the Herald 
building, answered to the case in behalf of Eagleson. If the wood-chopper 
told the truth, then it looks very much like a conspiracy on the part of the 



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APPENDIX. 



" Satanic " and sign-stealer to either break the Doctor down, or " blackmail " 
him into buying peace from them. They may succeed in accomplishing the 
former, and if there should be no change in the administration of justice in 
the city, they probably will, but the 'Doctor will never pay one penny of 
blackmail, not even to save his life. 

During this " reign of terror," Mrs. Broughton had been the greatest 
sufferer. Being obliged to keep her bed a great portion of the time; no rest 
at night ; and the demoniacal noises and threats so preying upon her that 
her reason failed at times, when she would utter cries and shrieks enough to 
drive mad those who heard them. We remember her words on one 
occasion : 

" O, God ! the blood is running down my neck ! help ! help ! help ! * 
One night the Doctor was obliged to get her out of bed and take her to 

a friend's house, fearing the most serious consequences unless he did so. 

On the 4th April Dr. B. sent the following notice to the landlord, which 

explains itself. 

814 Broadway, New York City, ) 
April ist, 1867. J 

Alexander Eagleson — 

Sir : — On the 23d ultimo, two of your workmen were seen to enter the water closet on the 
second floor of these premises, where they remained for a short time, apparently having no particu- 
lar errand there. But soon after, on trying my pumps, no water could be obtained, nor have we 
been able to obtain any since. 

When this visit of your plumbers to the water-closet on the second floor, and the discovery 
soon after that my supply of water had been cut off, are taken in connection with your stealing my 
signs ; your assaulting me upon the street, your arrest and confinement in the station house, your 
son-in-law threatening to cut my wife's head off, and his hurling a piece of board violently at her 
head, one of your plumbers striking her with a stick, the violence and outrages of the drunken 
rowdies who nightly assemble in your rooms over my head, their stealing my lamp and letter box, 
their breaking down my gas brackets, their stealing my bell-cot d and tassel ; their breaking up my 
Sunday night meeting — when all these things are considered in connection with your savage perse- 
cution, such as would disgrace any outcast from society, unless he could boast, as you do, of being 
worth $135,000, every unprejudiced mind must conclude that you sent your plumbers upon an 
errand of mischief, duly instructed to cut off my supply of water. 

But whether it is true or not that you sent them, being deprived of water is a serious damage 
to me, for which I shall be obliged to look to you for satisfaction, unless you remedy the mischief 
so that I can obtain water through my pump without delay. 

The reply to this notice was an impudent letter, received April 6th, 
enclosing a trumped-up account of $53.10, not one penny of which is due 
from the doctor to him, either in law or equity. 

* There is one part of the report of what we had to endure at 814 Broadway, which Mr. 
Chaney left out and which I now insert in this note. For months every night or rather morning 
during the time the meetings overhead were breaking up, and these rowdies were coining down 
stairs, they would stop at our landing and use all kind of vile language, threatening to break into 
our apartments and drag us out, and push against the door with such violence, that we expected 
every moment it would give way and they would break in. 

While these things were going on outside the door, Mr. Chaney and I were stationed inside, 
each with a large axe (such as are used bv lumbermen to chop trees) held over our heads. I gave 
Mr. Chanev directions that if they broke through, I would take the first man, he must take the 
second, and I the third, etc. Had they broken in we would have sold our lives as dearly as 
possible. 

We had the door propped and barred bv a ladder and planks, and protected every way pos- 
sible, besides it being locked and bolted. There was no going to bed for us until after all those 
rowdies were gone, which was generally from two to three, and sometimes four o'clock in the 
morning. . , 

My wife being of a nervous temperament and the noise frightened the children, making them 
scream, she often became delirious under this excitement, and imagined the rowdies, that the 
authorities had engaged to annov us had succeeded in breaking into our apartments, and were mur- 
dering her husband, children and herself. Hence at these times in her sleep, she would often 
use the expressions that Mr. Chaney has above related, and would attempt to get out of bed to 
run away. . 

I give the above in explanation of mv wife's say in her sleep: "Oh God! the blood is 
running down my neck," etc. If I did not do so some of mv readers might think that Mr. Chaney 
had been calling on imagination for material for his unparallel outrages, etc 



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459 



April 9th the Doctor sued him for damages done to his business by the 
drunken rowdies aforesaid, their breaking up his lectures, etc., laying his 
claim at five thousand dollars, which will not make Dr. B. whole, even if he 
recovers the full amount. 

On Sunday evening, April 14th, we were advertised to lecture on "Crea- 
tion." As usual, the wood-chopping son-in-law came with his hireling horde, 
and after continuing their noisy demonstrations for half an hour, headed by 
the wood-chopper, they came down stairs and into the hall where we were 
lecturing. This was part of their system of annoyances, running out and 
in, and disturbing us by groans, interruptions, and so forth. We had hitherto 
borne it with christian fortitude, but on this occasion our patience gave way. 
Q.iietly asking the audience to excuse us for a moment, we walked to 
the other end of the hall and ordered the wood-chopper out. He refused 
to go. We said he should. He swore he wouldn't. We could not afford 
to waste time in argument with the fellow, and so we took him by the collar. 
He doubled his fist. We smiled derisively and said "go." He commenced 
going. He was terribly disgusted, but kept going. Our argument was 
irresistible, and he continued to go. When half way through the ante-room 
he proposed to go himself if we would let him alone. We remembered his 
courtesy the day he escorted us to the door, and not liking to be outdone in 
politeness, even by a wood-chopper, we merely replied by tightening our 
grasp. He continued going, and his legs had to hurry to keep up with his 
body. When he was fairly beyond the outer door, we released our hold, 
but instead of returning thanks for our civility, the unmannerly fellow 
actually struck and kicked at us in a most furious manner. He had prob- 
ably eaten something for dinner that laid hard on his stomach. 

We returned to the hall and resumed our lecture, as though nothing had 
happened. For a brief space of time all was quite overhead, and then the 
noise began again. People passing through Broadway would stop and 
listen, wondering if a pandemonium had been opened upon that fashionable 
thoroughfare, for this was the third Sunday evening the outrages had been 
kept up. 

When a crowd of some hundred and fifty had been gathered, two police- 
men went up to the pandemonium and arrested the wood-chopper and three 
of his rag-tags, the others having made their escape by being down in our 
meeting, where they remained very quietly. The rag-tags gave the names 
of John Boyce, John Bowie and James Loomis, at the Station House, and 
together with the wood-chopper were locked up for the night. 

Next morning the case came before Justice Dodge. His Honor listened 
to the complaint of the officers who made the arrests, and to the doctor's 
account of the long continued outrages, and after rebuking the wood- 
chopper and his rag-tags sharply, he threatened to send them to the Island, 
if they repeated the offence,. They were honorably discharged 1 1 1 

The reader may imagine that we have been amusing him by giving a 
sensational romance 5 and we admit that it seems impossible for our account 
to be true, But if it is false then we are liable to heavy damage, and to im- 
prisonment , for uttering a malicious libel. We have given real names, and 
some of the parties are well known in the city. Will they prosecute us? 
We dare and defy them to do so. Our own name heads this article and we 
take all the responsibility of the publication. We have had ten years exper- 
ience as a practicing lawyer, and more than ten years as editor and author. 
Therefore we pretend to know the law, and we not only know the facts, but 
can prove a majority of them by more than a hundred witnesses. 

The doctor has expended fully two thousand dollars in the purchase of 
improvements on his premises, making other improvements and advertising 



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his business as a Physician and Astrologer. The lease has two years more 
to run, and now when he is just ready to realize some return for his outlay 
of money, he is compelled to encounter these fiendish persecutions, not for 
any wrong committed, for he would never harm any one, but simply because 
he is an Astrologer, and Astrology is not popular. 

Are we going back into the dark ages again ? It really seems so, when 
there is no redress by law for such outrages, committed upon the most pub- 
lic street of the metropolis of a continent. The doctor and his family may 
be murdered here — we may share the same fate, for we are determined to de- 
fend Astrology to the last — but this record shall live after us, a monument 
of lasting disgrace to the Empire City." 

SUPPLEMENT. 

"Thursday, April 18th. — The reign of terror still continues. Last 
night we attempted to lecture, and as usual, James McDermott commenced 
his outrageous noises above us. Sometimes we were obliged to pause for a 
minute, on account of the thumping, pounding and boisterous noises over- 
head. The wood-chopper brought a speaking trumpet with him, and while 
others were stamping and running about, he continued to sing, evidently 
holding the trumpet near his mouth, so that the harsh, metallic detonations 
sounded more like shrieks from the damned than a human voice. 

The police were sent for and once more the wood-chopper came to 
grief, being obliged to pass the night in the Station House. This morning 
he was taken before Justice Dodge, and once more, honorably discharged! ! ! 

Mrs. Broughton is lying very low, with symptoms of brain fever. The 
noises last night nearly drove her distracted. I hear her groans of anguish 
while I write, and at the same moment I hear the voice of James McDermott 
overhead, and hear him stamping and pounding on the floor. 

When will this "reign of terror" cease? Verily, the doctor was a true 
prophet when he said we should find plenty to do in defending Astrology. 
But we shall not give up yet awhile. Astrology is undergoing its fiery 
baptism, and this is no time for turning recreant to the cause." 



I have inserted the above article, written by W. H. Chaney, and pub- 
lished in the "Planet Reader," April, 1867, to prove to the reader what 
Astrologers had to suffer thirty years ago. But there has come a change 
over the whole community since that time, and if the change continues, 
there is no doubt that a few years hence the ministers of the Gospel will be 
preaching Astrological sermons on Sundays in the various churches and 
saying, " That Jesus Christ was an Astrologer, and that he taught Astrol- 
ogy to his Apostles," and for once they will actually preach the truth, 
because if we can' believe] the apocrypha to the New Testament, it is 
there stated that Christ learned the various significations of the planets and 
the signs of the Zodiac, and the sextile, trine, square and opposition 
aspects j and even a number of passages in the New Testament goes to 
prove that he had a general knowledge of the signs of the Heavens. See 
Matt, xvi., 2 and 3. 

Astrology was just as true thirty years ago as it is to-day, and as it will 
be thirty years hence. It is not Astrology that changes, but public opinion. 
At the present day I think it would be very difficult for the judges of the 
various courts, even in New York City, to prostitute the law in their courts 
as they did in 1867, without attracting the attention of the community. 

In regard to Alexander Eagleson, and his son-in-law, James McDermott. 
lam of the opinion that they were simplv the cat's paw in these persecutions, 
and the real monkey that used their hands to pull the chestnuts out of the 



APPENDIX. 46 j 

fire was no other than James Gordon Bennett, proprietor of the New York 
Herald, as at that time the Herald was devoting two or three columns every 
Monday morning to reporting, or rather misrepresenting, the Sunday meet- 
ings at 814 Broadway, and even the reporters of the Herald would bring 
rowdies with them to create disturbances and break up the meetings. In 
the latter part of these persecutione James McDermott came to me in my 
office and told me, that James Gordon Bennett's lawyers had deceived his 
father-in-law in telling him that they would protect him in stealing my 
signs, and said he had a right to take them, and had a right to make all 
the disturbance that Mr. Chaney has enumerated in the foregoing 
account of these persecutions ; and that he and his father-in-law were 
getting tired of it. I told McDermott all we wanted was to live peaceably. 

It certainly was a bitter pill for Mr. Eagleson and his son-in-law, to 
spend a number of nights in the prison cells. In the lawsuit in which they 
sued me for $10,000 damages, Mr. Eagleson and Mr. McDermott had been 
attending court over two months, every day except Sunday, before I was 
notified by my lawyer, Charles Spencer, (as I had moved and Mr. Spencer 
did not know my address.) After I was notified they had to attend every 
day for six or seven weeks, as the late Judge McCunn was on the bench, and 
he only tried about one law-suit a month. A number of names that were on 
the docket were called off before the court commenced, and each had to 
answer to their name and say " Ready." The witnesses in my case had to 
attend court nearly two mom lis before it came to trial. I believe it was tried 
before Judge Garvin. 

Besides entering suit for $500 against Mr. Eagleson, I also entered suit 
for $5,000, and afterwards for $10,000 damages, but it was impossible to 
get any of these cases in court. 

There is no doubt the persecution we had to endure was the means of 
shortening my wife's life, who has now lain in Greenwood a number of 
years. Had these persecutions occured in Cuba, Armenia, or in the 
Island of Crete, the newspapers in the United States would have had 
long accounts calling them religious persecutions and they would have 
wanted the United States Government to send men-of-war to stop such 
astrocities ; but as they occured in the Metropolis of the Western Hemis- 
phere, it was all right and we got all we deserved. Not a newspaper in 
the country referred to them except the New York Herald. Any reader 
that is interested in such literature may refer to the " Herald " published in 
1866 and 1867. It is strange what venom the religious community dis- 
played fifty or seventy five years ago, against Astrology, and its professors. 
There is no doubt that James Gordon Bennett was influenced by the 
Catholic clergy, the Herald being a Catholic paper. 

It is strange what a change in regard to Astrology has come over the 
community and the editors of the New York Herald since 1867. One of 
the former editors of that paper has since studied Astrology under my tui- 
tion, and has written and published much in the various newspapers and 
periodicals on the science of Astrology, and is a firm believer in it, and is 
practising it publicly. Even Mr. James Ingston one of the present editors 
of the New York Herald has studied the science and has just published a 
book on Astrology, calling it the "Gospel of the Stars, or the Wonders of 
Astrology." The introduction to which is written by the chief editor of 
the Herald, Rev. George H. Hepworth. In reviewing that book in the 
Herald, they praise it by saying, "that it is the best book that has ever 
been published on the Science of Astrology." Of late years Mr. Ingston 
and " Asrael " have published much on the Science of Astrology in the 
Herald. Mr. Ingston has even made application to myself for articles on 



462 APPENDIX. 

that science for that paper, which were furnished him and were published.* 
Who knows but the present James Gordon Bennett may become an Astrol- 
oger, and have to go through the same kind of persecutions that I had to 
endure. Saul of Tarsus, according to the New Testament spent most of 
his time in persecuting the early Christians, and yet afterwards became one 
of the greatest advocates of Christianity, under the name of Paul the 
Apostle and had to endure persecutions for Christ's sake. 

Near the time the above persecutions were going on at 814 Broadway, 
Prof. Henry Holembaek, who was at that time Mayor of Burlington city, 
New Jersey, and was Professor of Materia Medica, at the Medical college 
where I graduated, made me a friendly visit and in talking on the subject 
of medicine and Astrology, made the following remark, "I do not 
believe in Astrology, but I respect you all the more for believing in it, because 
you stick to Astrology, when it is clearly to your disadvantage to do so." 

No one could have been more opposed to Astrologv than Prof. Chaney, 
before he became acquainted with me. He had the impression that the science 
had been entirely exploded, and that any person who could read and write could 
not possibly believe in Astrology. The first time he came into my office, 
he looked at my library and made the remark, " Why, you don't believe in 
Astrology ! " But becoming acquainted with me changed the whole current 
of his life, and he has spent the last 30 years in reading, investigating, 
writing and lecturing on that subject, and no doubt he will continue to 
do so as long as he lives. He has published a number of books and pam- 
phlets on the Science of Astrology, besides editing monthly periodicals 
that treat altogether on that subject. He has also published an Astrological 
Ephemeris of his own calculating besides republishing White's Ephemeris 
from 1800 to 1875. 

* Mr. James Ingston in his book on the "Wonders of Astrology,'' on page 30, tells us : 

" The services which a skilled Astrologer can render are various. He can tell those who con- 
sult him the fortunate and unfortunate periods of their lives, whether wealth or poverty will be 
their lot, whether they will be happy or unhappy in their married life, whether they will have 
children or not, whether they will be successful or unsuccessful in speculation, whether they will 
obtain legacies or marriage portions or not, whether they will have strong or weak constitutions, 
whether they will be subject to diseases, and if so, of what nature, whether they will have many or 
few enemies and friends, whether they will quarrel or live peaceably with their neighbors and kin- 
dred, whether they will travel much or little, whether they will be in peril while traveling or not, 
whether they will be successful in intellectual or manual labor and whether they will live to a good 
old age or not. But this is not all. The astrologer can tell what trade or profession is most suit- 
able for a person and what likelihood there is of success therein ; he can tell what manner of man 
a woman will mar '^ and what manner of woman a man will marry, and whether the two will live 
happily together or be sundered by separation or divorce ; he can also tell whether the life as a 
whole will be prosperous and happy or sad and unfortunate. The character, temperament and 
intellectual tastes he can describe with a precision that will astonish those who have been led to 
believe that star-readers are impostors and that Astrology is an invention of the devil. 

" Young girls who desire to know their fortune in marriage, young men who are undecided as 
to what profession or trade they shall adopt, fathers and moihers who are anxious as to the edu- 
cation and -health of their children, all, who are worried about money matters, the sick, who would 
fain know whether they will recover their strength and the strong, whose duty it is to ascertain 
whether any disease threatens them in the future — all these may rest assured that they will find 
comfort in astrology. Aye, and so may all others, who honestly desire to know what the future 
has in store for them. In the heavens is mapped out the entire life of every human being with all 
its joys and sorrows, all its tragedies and successes, all its incidents and changes both grave and 
trivial, and the story there told in seemingly unintelligible language can be made clear to any one 
who cares to hear it.'' 

Had there been such men as Mr. Ingston and " Asrael " editors of the New York Herald in 
1866 and 1867, I do not believe that Mr. James Gordon Bennett could have influenced them to 
write such articles against me and Astrology, as appeared in that paper during these years ; no 
amount of money that Mr. Bennett might offer could have induced them to so prostitute their 
talents and principles. 

If the reader wishes to know what a change has come over the community in thirty years, let 
him turn to the files of the New York Herald published in 1866 and 1867, and read the 
,k reports?" of the meeting at 814 Broadway, also to page 43 of this volume, and read what the 
detective wrote to my patron after he had been robbing my mail. 

Lord Beaconsfield had a saying: "The unexpected always happens." Who would have 
thought, 30 years ago, that the editors of the Herald would have become Astrologers ? 



APPENDIX. 



463 



Note continued from paragraph 624, page 283. 

In these days the people never think of choosing a foi unate period for 
laying the first stone, or as the newspapers call it, the " corner stone," and 
which is often anything but the first stone. All they attend to is making 
speeches, singing and praying; especially if the building is intended for 
religious purposes, ?nd they never trouble themselves to choose fortunate 
planetary influences, and good planetary hours for laying the first stone. 

Some years ago I read an account in the New York Sunday papers of 
laying the " corner stone " on Saturday afternoon of what was intended to 
be a large church. That same day I went to see where the church was 
to be situated; when I got there I found the church was more than half 
built and the builders had left one corner, so that the person appointed to 
lay the stone in that corner could say he laid that cornerstone-, but instead 
of it being the first stone of that building, it came nearer being the last. 

When I read in the newspapers, the accounts of laying corner stones, 
it is impossible to avoid smiling to think how people have perverted the 
meaning of laying the first stone. But it becomes truly laughable when we 
read the account of Andrew H. Greene going in a coach with a spade to 
about 70th Street, in New York and " turning the sod" where it is intended 
to commence digging for the foundation of the Bridge to cross the Hudson 
River, and then driving to the Ferry and crossing the River to Weehawken, 
turning another " sod " there, and then driving home. Had Andrew H. 
Greene calculated the movements of the heavenly bodies, and chosen the 
most propitious time for turning these sods, it is possible they might have 
commenced building the bridge before this time. 

We have another curious instance of Count De Lesseps, coming to this 
continent from France, and turning the first sod of the Panama Canal, 
on the Atlantic side, then riding by railway over to the Pacific coast and 
taking a steam tug to the place of the other end of the intended canal. 
But the sea being boisterous it was impossible for him to land, so he procured 
some sand and turned it over instead of the "sod," on the steamer's deck ; 
that was supposed to be the commencement of the digging of the Panama 
Canal. He certainly must have chosen a very evil time to turn the " first sod," 
as the canal is not yet completed, and is never likely to be, and all those who 
had anything to do with the digging of the Canal, are either in prison 
or disgrace, or came to misfortune, besides bringing the whole French nation 
into disgrace and financial loss, and numbers of the most active men in the 
undertaking fled their country or committed suicide to avoid imprisonment. 

These things remind us so much of the imitation of monkeys, repeating 
things they see their masters perform, that it is possible in some future age, 
the readers of the history of these days will actually say, that the people who 
lived in the last decade of the 19th century were a species of monkeys. 

The various religious sects of the present day, all unite in talking and 
preaching about the ignorance, superstition and wickedness of Astrologers ; 
but where can the student find such unadulterated ignorance and supersti- 
tion as that of Andrew H. Greene, and Count De Lesseps, turning the first 
"sod" and the religious people laying the corner stone of a church that was 
more than half built. 

There is no doubt that more than nine tenths of all the present religious 
ceremonies have had a similar origin as "turning the sod" or laying the 
first stone of important structures, and these religious ceremonies have in 
time been changed into singing, praying and speech making, instead of 
calculating and observing the movements of the heavenly bodies, to find 
when is the most fortunate time to commence these undertakings. 



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As what is termed laying the coiner stone, is generally anything but the 
first stone, I have seldom made an astrological calculation in relation to 
the laying of these stones, or what is sometimes thermed "turning the sod," 
But I was interested in, and noticed the time of laying what is called the 
" corner stone" of the "School of Theosophy"" by the Theosophical Cru- 
saders who went around the World, spreading their new doctrines in every 
country they travelled through. On their return to the United States 
they stopped' at Point Loma, San Diego, California, and Mrs. Katherine 
Tingley of New York, laid the corner stone of their new School of 
Theosophy, at or very near 2.45 P. M., Feb. 23d, 1897. I calculated the 
chart of the heavens for that time, and for the longitude and latitude of 
Point Loma. I find it would have been quite a difficult task for them to 
have chosen a more unfortunate period for that purpose. There is no 
question that the School of Theosophy will never be finished.* At the 
time the first stone was laid, twenty six degrees of Cancer was on the 
ascendant, in the horoscope, and the Moon, lady of that sign, was 
just leaving a conjunction of Saturn and applying to a square of Jupiter 
and the Sun, which were almost in exact opposition from the 3d house, to the 
9th house (the house of science and learning.) Should the College building 
ever be completed (which is almost an impossibility) and should they com- 
mence to teach Theosophy, there will be nothing but quarrels about what 
they shall teach and what they shall not teach. 




Chart of the Heavens, February 23d, 1897, at 2.45 P. M. when the 

Corner Stone of the School of Theosophy was laid, at 

San Diego, California. 

The above is the chart of the heavens of the layingthe first or corner stone 
for the school of Theosophy and on page 289 are given the Astrological 
rules and principles for laying the first stone of any special building. 

* The above was written and in type severaOnonths before I saw the article in the New York 
Sun, referred to on page . 



APPENDIX 465 

How to Calculate a Horoscope for Point Loma, San Diego. 

662 If the student is not in regular practice in erecting charts of the 
heavens, for any longitude or latitude ; he had better read over again 
very carefully "Rule to Set a Map of the Heavens," on pages 142, 

143, 144, 145 and 146, before attempting to calculate the foregoing 
chart of the heavens, and after he has refreshed his memory, then he 
must get "Raphael's Ephemeris " for 1897, and look for the 23d of 
February of that year, and on a line with it, under the heading of 
" Sidereal Time," he will find 22 hours and 14 minutes; he will add 
the 2 hours and 45 minutes to that sum making in all 24 hours and 59 
minutes. As 24 hours completes the day, he will reject the 24, and 
look in the table of houses, for the latitude of Point Loma, San Diego. 
In order to do so he will have to get a geography of the United States, 
which contains a map of California, and look for the latitude of Point 
Loma, San Diego, and he will find it is near 33 north latitude. The 
only table of houses that I know that is printed for every even degree c r 
north latitude from 22 to 56 is that of Joseph G. Dalton's. 

663 Then look in Dalton's table of houses for 59 minutes on top line 
of the 4th page, and in the last set of columns of that page, on the top 
line of that table, he will find 58 minutes and 57 seconds ; and on the 
right of these figures in the top column he will find °f Aries 1 6°, which 
he will place on the cusp of the 10th house, and then if he draws his 
hand down on the left hand column, until he gets to figure 33 ; then 
carry the figure on that line until he gets to the last right hand column 
of the page he will find 21 ° and 3 / of 8 Taurus, which he will place 
on the cusp of the 11th house; and on a line with the last figures he 
will find 26 o / of n Gemini in the next column, which he will place 
on the cusp of the 12th house, and next on that line 26 and 57' 
of 23 Cancer, which he will place on the ascendant or the first house ; 
in the next column he will find 19 of ft Leo, which he will place on 
the 2d house, and on the last column, he will find 14° S / of TTQ. Virgo, 
which he will place on the cusp of 3d house ; and then he will commence 
to copy the southern signs and the degrees and minutes on the opposite 
houses in the blank chart. 

664 After the student has inserted the 12 signs in the blank chart, 
he will get his map of California again, and look for the longitude of 
Point Loma, and he will find it near 1 17°, west longitude from Green- 
wich, England ; he will then take that 1 17 and multiply it by four, as 
there are four minutes in time, to one degree of longitude, which makes 
46s 7 ; he divides that 468 by 60, the number of minutes in an hour, and 
it gives 7 hours and 48 minutes ; therefore the longitude of Point Loma 
is 7 hours and 48 minutes earlier in time than London, and the student 
must make his calculations for the longitude of the planets and the Sun 
and Moon which occurs in London at 12 o'clock noon, as if they were 
4 hours and 12 minutes, A. M. at Point Loma. In addition he must 
add the 2 hours and 45 minutes, (as the corner stone was laid at 2 
hours and 45 minutes in the afternoon;) to the 7 hours and 48 minutes 
making 10 hours and 33 minutes. He must then calculate how far the 



466 APPENDIX. 

Sun and Moon and planets will travel in 10 hours and 33 minutes, and 
add that sum to the longitude of the planets and Sun and Moon given 
in the Ephemeris on Feb. 23d, 1897, at noon in London. 

665 The easiest way to make these calculations is to see in the Ephe- 
meris how far each planet travels in 24 hours, and divide that sum by 
2 to find how far they travel in 12 hours, and add the remainder to the 
longitude of the planets as they are printed in the Ephemeris, and then 
deduct the distance that each one will travel in one hour and a half, and 
the student will get very close to the exact longitude of each planet.* 

If the student turns to page 288 paragraph 625, he will find the " Elec- 
tion for laying the first stone of a building," and will there see that the old 
Astrologers had serious objections to the Watery triplicity particularly to 
Pisces and Scorpio ; but Cancer is objectionable, because it is unsafe to 
erect a building on the water. Cancer, Scorpio or Pisces on the ascend- 
ant, or the Moon in these signs, (particularly Cancer as it is a moveable 
sign) is very evil for laying the first stone. The rule is to have the Moon, 
either in a fixed sign, or have a fixed sign on the ascendant and the Moon 
in good aspect to that sign. But if the student turns to the chart of the 
heavens for the laying of the first stone of the School of Theosophy, he will 
find Cancer is on the ascendant, and the Moon lady of that sign is within 
2 of the conjunction of Saturn ; also just leaving a conjunction of Uranus, 
which are two very evil afflictions to that luminary. 

The old authors on Astrology all agree that a planet or the Moon 
leaving a conjunction, square or opposition of one or more evil planets in a 
horary question, laying the first stone, or in a nativity, is more unfortunate 
or weaker than a planet applying to an evil aspect, as they say that the 
Moon or the planet leaving the evil aspect is so completely saturated with 
the evil influence of the planet that it is leaving, that it takes it a long time 
to overcome that influence. They compare it to a miller whose clothes and 
everything about him gets so impregnated with flour, that if he leaves the 
mill, it takes a long time for him to get rid of it; it has so penetrated into 
his clothing. 

In all charts of the heavens, the old Astrologers say : whether in a time of 
birth, or a question, or laying the first stone of a building never have the Moon 
afflicted. They say : It is better to have the lord of the ascendant afflicted than 
the Moon." The Moon is not only afflicted in the foregoing horoscope, 
but it is also lady of the ascendant, which causes it to be doubly afflicted. 
The Moon after leaving a conjunction of Uranus and Saturn is making a 
square of Jupiter, lord of the 9th, (house of science and religion,) and also 
a square of the Sun, and the Sun and Jupiter are in exact opposition. The 
Moon is also making an opposition of Neptune and Mars. The only good 
aspect the Moon makes is a sextile of Mercury, but Mercury is setting. It 
is a particularly evil horoscope for the laying of the first stone, as Venus, 
although in the midheaven, is seriously afflicted on account of being in its 
detriment and in square to the ascendant. The ancients say, " let the fortu- 
nate planets, Jupiter and Venus be in good aspect to each other or to the 
degree ascending." Jupiter could hardly be more afflicted, and has no aspect 
to the ascendant, and Venus is in square to the degree ascending. 

* There is no doubt the stone was laid within a very few minutes of 2,45 P. M., as I asked 
a gentleman who was present at the laying of the corner stone, and he told me when lie arrived 
at the gate of the grounds he looked at his watch, which he set by Standard or San Francisco 
time, and it was 25 minutes to three ; and he calculated it would take 10 minutes to walk the short 
distance, and for Mr. Hargrove to deliver the speech which he made previous to layiug the stone* 



APPENDIX. 467 

What a pity it is that people do not pay attention at the present day to 
these rules and principles which have been known and used to such great 
advantage by the ancients for thousands of years. 

My father had a saying that "experience is a dear school, but fools 
will learn at no other." Unfortunately there are some people who will not 
even learn at the school of experience, and those fools are generally known 
by the name of " Christians." 



I learn from the newspapers that the School is going to be completed, 
and used as a Sanitarium. The building will be unfortunate as a Sani- 
tarium, and the patients who attend there are more likely to die than to get 
well, as Jupiter, lord of the 6th, (the house of sickness) is in close opposition 
to the Sun in the 8th, (the house of death,) and the Moon, lady of the 
ascendant makes a square of both. The building will not be a paying 
institution as a Sanitarium, as the Sun, lord of the 2d house, (the house of 
money) is so afflicted by the opposition of Jupiter, lord of the 6th and 9th 
houses, (the houses of science and sickness.) 

The following appeared in the " New York Sun," Tuesday, Dec. 28th, 
1897, under the head of " Theosophists all Awry." 

"There is, in the words of one of the 'advanced enthusiasts of the Tlieosophical Society, a 
violent row' in the organization, manifesting itself, both here and abroad. It is said to be due to 
dissatisfaction with Mrs. Kittie Tingley, the head of the esoteric body here. There are people 
who do not wholly approve of Mrs. Tingley's high place in the society, and according to the story, 
their number is growing so fast that already two esoteric Presidents have resigned, and the resig- 
nation of a third is expected. 

"The information received yesterday from London included a strong intimation of the intention 
of one of the other European Presidents to resign shortly. Complaints are made that the society 
in this city no longer studies Theosophy, and that it has been converted into a charitable organiza- 
tion, the w/>rk of which is carried on in the name of the ' International Brotherhood League.' 

"Mrs. Tingley's pet project, the 'School for the Revival of the Lost Mysteries of Antiquity,' 
it is said, has so far fallen into desuetude that the building which was only just begun at Point Loma, 
near San Diego, Cal., is to be completed and turned into a Sanitarium by Dr. Loren A. Wood, 
formerly of Westerly, R. I., to whom it has been turned over. Dr. Wood was on the recent cru- 
sade of the Tingley Theosophists. Mrs. Annie Besant's proselyting here last spring has begun to 
tell. Branches of the Society in different cities have deserted the body whose esoteric head Mrs. 
Tingley is, and have joined themselves to that fostered by Mrs. Besant. The branch at Lynn, 
Mass., Mrs. Tingley's former home, has gone over to the Besant enemy." 



In ancient times the people not only chose the most propitious times accord- 
ing to the planetary influences for "turning the sod," laying the first stone, or 
driving the first pile for the erection of important structures, but they actually 
built those structures on the principles or order of the planetary system. 

For instance there is a model made of the Tower of Babylon in the 
National Museum, at Washington, D. C, which if the student examines he 
will find the walls of the first story were painted black, the color of 
Saturn, the second a deep orange, the color of Jupiter ; the third, red, 
Mars's color ; the fourth gold, the Sun's color; the fifth white, the color of 
Venus; the sixth blue, the color of Mercury ; the seventh silver, the Moon's 
color. A picture of which the reader will find on page 

There is a printed page pasted on the model which states that the " Tower 
of Babel " was originally painted these colors when first built. Not only 
that, but in late excavations in that country they have discovered two othei 
structures, one underneath the other, and near where the Tower of Babel 
stands at the present day, each of these structures were built with seven 
stories, similar to the Tower of Babel. The deepest or most ancient of these 
buildings had been the most perfect in its architecture and construction. 

There are cuneiform writings on these structures, giving certain astro- 
nomical calculations which prove beyond question, that the most ancient of 
these structures is over 9,000 years old, or more than 3,000 years older than 
the Mozaic History of the Creation of the world. 



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Description of the Tower of Babel. 

The drawing on the opposite page is from the model of the Tower of Babylon in the National 
Museum, at Washington, D. C. and copied from the New York Sunday Journal of October 
17, 1897. The model was made by Mr. Palmer, and conforms to the theory of the Tower by 
Sir Henry Rawlinson, the great Orientalist, who gives the dimensions of the Tower as 
follows : 

"The first was a stage or platform of crude brick raised a few feet above the level of the plain. 
The first story of the Tower or basement was an exact square of 272 feet each way, and 25 feet in 
perpendicular height ; the second story was 230 feet each way, and 26 feet high ; the third story 
was 180 feet square each way, and 26 feet high ; the fourth was 146 feet square, and 15 feet high ; 
the fifth 104 feet square, and 15 feet high ; the sixth 62 feet square and the 7th, 20 feet square, and 
both were 15 feet high. 

" Concerning the origin of the "Tower of Babel," little is known save from the Bible. The 
historian Herodotus mentions it, and there are also certain cuneiform inscriptions on some of the 
bricks which give 'the name of Nebuchadnezzar as the person who finished the building of the 
Temple. These inscriptions state that it was commenced by a former king, but that king never 
finished it. It was said to have been built in honor of the Babylonian god, called Nebo or Nabu. 
There were seven stories of this temple ; each story was painted a particular color, each color being 
governed by one of the seven planets. The lowest story was painted black, the color of Saturn ; 
the next story above was painted a deep orange, the color of Jupiter ; the next red, the color of 
Mars; next the Sun, a golden color ; next white, Venus' color ; next Mercury's color, blue ; and 
the top story the Moon's color, a silvery or kind of glistening color." — New York Journal. 

The above colors are those which are said to be ruled by the planets at the present day 
in the books of "Modern Astrology,'' The Tower gives the color of Venus as white, but 
in books of Modern Astrology the color given is light blue or light sky color ; all the other colors 
correspond or nearly so. In Raphael's Horary Astrology, on page 53, the colors there given 
as ruled by the planets, are as follows: That of Saturn rules black ; that of Jupiter green spotted 
or ash color ; Mars red or scarlet ; Sun saffron or yellow; Venus lightish blue; Mercury gray or 
buff-color; Moon white or cream, but the Moon also governs silvery or glistening color ; these 
colors of the planets vary somewhat when they are in different signs of the Zodiac, and it depends 
on what sign the planet is in in regard to the various shades, and it also depends on what house it 
is in, as that sometimes varies the shade or color that the planets rule. 

There is no doubt that all of these stories dedicated to their respective planets, were com- 
menced when these planets were in the most fortunate positions in the Zodiac, and in good 
aspects to other planets, especially to what are called the two fortunate planets, jjupiter and 
Venus. 

The Tower of Babel may have been used as a fortification against the enemies of the Babylon- 
ians, as the extra Tower built on the top of the seven stories, which is shown in the small cut 
underneath the large picture, and which was afterwards added to the top of the original Tower by 
some Babylonian king whose name is not mentioned ; this appears to be indicated by the top 
Tower, and it also might have been used as a lookout for watching the approach of enemies of 
the Babylonians. 



Antiquity of Astrology Proved by the Tower of Babel. 

The ruins of the ancient "Tower of Babel" prove unquestionably 
that Astronomy and Astrology were well understood and practised over 9,000 
years ago, and that the people conducted their business and controlled the 
various events of life by the principles and rules of these sciences. It is also 
stated that the bricks that the Tower of Babel was built with, even at this 
day, are in a good state of preservation, or at least people who have been to 
Babylon and examined them make this statement, and it is more than 4,000 
years since the latter building was finished by Nebuchadnezzar. Were 
bricks that buildings are now made of exposed to the action of the weather, 
either in England or the United States, only for a few hundred years, they 
would crumble to dust. 



4 7° APPENDIX. 

Continued from page 174. 

I wish the reader to understand that I have no particular spite against 
the editor of the New York Times, as I honestly believe that he is not any 
more prejudiced against Astrology than most editors in New York, only 
he happened to lay himself open to criticism at the present time, which has 
caused me to give more attention to him than to other editors. 

Had Mrs. Maud S. sent her daughter's time of birth to an editor of 
almost any other newspaper in the United States, or for that matter to any 
newspaper in Europe, they would have given her a similar answer to the one 
she received from the "New York Times," * and no matter how much these 
editors might differ in politics, or on the labor or money question, they 
would all agree that calculating horoscopes was a "debasing superstition" 
and whould have expatiated on the "harmful influence" on children's 
minds" of such calculations. If she had sent her daughter's time of birth 
to all the Christian Ministers in Europe and America, no matter how much 
they might quarrel or disagree on religious doctrines, or of the meaning of 
any passage of the Old or New Testament, they would have been unan- 
imous in saying that calculating horoscopes was a debasing superstition, and 
in denouncing the Astrologer as an impostor or a fraud, and in consigning 
him to everlasting torment. It would have been the same if she had sent 
the time of birth to any lawyer, or judge on the bench in any Christian 
country of the world, no matter how much they might differ on law points, 
quarrel and call each other hard names, they would all have -been of one 
opinion on the merits, or rather the demerits of Astrology $ and no matter 
how many times the judges reversed each other's decisions on other matters 
they would have all decided alike when it came to their judgment on 
Astrology. 

I will even go further and state that if Mrs.' Maud S. had sent her 
daughter's time of birth to the doctors of the United States, Canada or 
Europe, they would all, with very few exceptions, (and those exceptions are 
doctors who are now using Astrology in the practice of medicine,) if they 
had answered her letter have agreed that Astrology was a "de-basing 
superstition," no matter how much they quarrel among themselves, and 
call each other quacks, frauds and impostors on account of their not 
agreeing on any particular school of "pathy." Yet, if Mrs. Maud S.'s 
daughter had been taken sick, and she called in twenty or thirty of those 
same doctors, each and every one of them would have diagnosed the case 
differently, and each would contend that she had a different disease or com- 
plaint, and no two of them would have agreed in the treatment of any one 
symptom, and each would have put her under different, or almost opposite 
treatment, and diet, and it would have been the same if those twenty doctors 
had all graduated from the same college, and had been taught by the same 
professors, and yet we talk about the science of medicine. 

But if she had sent her child's time and place of birth to twenty different 
Astrologers, they would have all agreed, or come very near agreeing in re- 
gard to the child's diseases or complaints in the different periods of her life, 
and the parts of the body which would be affected at those times, thirty or 
forty years before these periods of sickness would take place. 

* Although when the Editor of the New York Times, was writing the criticisms on Astrology, 
the New York Sunday News was publishing three or four columns of horoscopes each Sunday ; the 
Pittsburg (Pa.) Dispatch from twelve to fourteen columns each week ; the Pittsburg Leader three ; 
columns ; the Cincinnati Inquirer about six columns ; the Louisville Courier Journal three col- 
umns ; the Illustrated American was publishing two pages; the Manchester Mirror (N. H.) was 
publishing three columns ; the Harrisburg (Pa.,) Telegraph one column per week. Besides there 
were a number of other papers publishing' horoscopes, during 1893, 1894, 1895 and 1896, 



APPENDIX. 47I 

tf Mrs. Maud S. had sent the time of birth to all the Astrologers in the 
world, and those Astrologers had studied the science so as to be proficient, 
and had sufficient practice in reading nativities, these horoscopes of the girl 
would have agreed in almost every particular ; the same as if a thousand 
painters had painted the likeness of the girl, or a thousand photographers 
had taken her picture with their cameras, those pictures would have agreed 
with each other 5 one might have given a darker or a lighter shade to some 
particular part, or made some particular feature come out a little more 
prominent in one picture than in another, but any number of persons who 
had looked at the whole of them and had known the girl, would have 
t .id each was a true picture. Had Mrs. Maud S. sent her daughter's time 
of birth, and named the place where she was born, also the race, to a 
thousand Astrologers, (if that number could be found) each and everyone 
would have drawn or calculated exactly, the same chart or map of the 
heavens ; or if she had the map of the heavens calculated by some Astrol- 
oger and then sent a copy of the same map to the nine hundred and ninety- 
nine, and not have stated when or where she was born, those thousand 
Astrologers would each give the same reading, almost word for word. 
Some of them might dwelt a little more on one particular part of her 
personal description or on some particular feature of her mental or moral 
character, or the special diseases she would be most liable to, and they 
might have varied slightly in regard to her future husband, her married 
life, her children, domestic happiness, or unhappiness, business, etc. But 
any person who was acquainted with the girl, after they read her horo- 
scope, would all say, that this is the horoscope of Mrs. Maud S.'s daughter, 
and not the horoscope of any other person, unless that person was born at 
or near the same time, and in or very near the same place, and in that case 
the only difference would be in the parentage, heredity, environment, sur- 
roundings or training, and education. 

We cannot overcome or change the planetary influence at the time of 
birth. To give an illustration, when the position of the planets in horoscopes 
are evil or unfortunate for anv particular mental quality, say music, no 
amount of education or training in music will ever make a musician of that 
person. It is the same when the planets are evil in regard to any other 
faculty or quality of the mind or body. You might as well attempt to 
teach a person to see, who is born blind, or to hear, who is born deaf. 

Therefore the reader will at once see the great advantage the study of 
Astrology will be to the whole human family, and especially to the young 
of both sexes. Three fourths of the rising generation are put to trades, 
occupations and professions for which they are altogether unfit, and in which 
it is impossible for them ever to make a success. 

Most of the misery, poverty and degradation is the result of these mis- 
takes, and they could be avoided by having the child's horoscope calculated 
by a competent Astrologer, and by following his advice and instructions. 

To give an illustration and proof that all Astrologers agree in the 
principles and practice of Astrology, I copy the following from an article in 
the "Penny Magazine," New York, for May, 1897, called "Reading the 
Stars," by " Azrael," a former pupil of mine, and who was formerly one 
of the editors of the Netv York Herald. He was also at one time, on the 
Evening Telegram. On page 20, he says : "Given the birth hour, and the 
place of birth of any individual anywhere, a qualified Astrologer will, 
without peradventure, delineate his or her nature and characteristics and the 
leading events of his or her life without important error. And if the same 
data be presented to different Astrologers in New York, London, Calcutta 
or Melbourne, every one of these will give the same facts exactly, only 



472 APPENDIX. 

clothed in different language. Just as any such Astrologer will take a 
horoscope, or chart of the heavens already cast, knowing nothing but the 
sex and race of the person, and will read off therefrom the nature, ability, 
propensities intellectual qualifications and major events of the life, from the 
relative positions and configuration of the planets, as though it were an open 
page in a known language."* 

"In a brief and superficial article little more can be said. But this I 
say,- that Astrology, as a science and an art, is true} that it can do what it 
promises ; that it will submit to any conceivable test j that it is not contrary 
to free will, nor to true religion, nor to exact science 5 that it is the most 
fascinating of studies, and absolutely the most valuable and useful to man- 
kind of all the arts." 



I have given the above as an example of the experience of an Astrologer 
who has only had a few years practice in this fascinating science. If 
" Azrael " lives, his interest in Astrology will increase as he grows older. 

Astrology is the only science or knowledge in which the opinions of those 
who are the most ignorant on the subject are accepted. In all other sciences 
or professions the opinion of those who have had the most experience and 
practice carry the most weight, and is generally the most convincing to all 
sensible persons. Even in the practice of medicine, a science in which 
there are so many different systems or " pathies," and which changes almost 
as often, as the fashion in ladies' bonnets and dresses, those physicians 
who have the most practice, have the most attention paid to them, and can 
charge the highest fees. An uncle of mine, Dr. Mark Broughton, at a 
trial in the York Assizes, in England, was the means of saving a young 
woman from being executed, by being able to swear that he had more than 
forty times the number of accouchements than the doctor on the opposing 
side. That evidence decided the jury in bringing in a verdict of not guilty. 
But had the jury known that my uncle made use of the science of Astrology 
in his every day practice of medicine, it is more than probable the opposing 
lawyer would have taken exceptions to his evidence, and asked the judge to 
rule out his testimony. 

It must appear to the reader, that if all doctors had to agree to study 
Astrology, instead of agreeing in condemning it without any knowledge or 

* As " Asreal " says given the time and place of birth, the sect and race of the individual to 
any number of Astrologers, they will all read the horoscope nearly alike, only clothing it in 
slightly different language. Any number of persons who study the science of Astrology will express 
themselves in a similar manner as "Azrael." This cannot be said of any other of the learned 
professions. 

About two years ago a reporter of" New York Press," went around to a number of clairvoy- 
ants, fortune-tellers, card-cutters, mind-readers, spiritualists, palmists, phrenologists mesmer- 
ists, etc., (all of which he called "Astrologers," ) in New York City, and that paper devoted nearly a 
whole page to the interviews, and because the professors of these various" isms " did not all agree 
exactly in their statements, the "Press" insisted they should all be arrested and sent to States 
Prison. Had the same reporter gone to all the different trades in New York, such as shoe-makers, 
hatters, tailors, shirt makers, underwear and stocking makers, and paid each $5.00, and because 
they did not all make him a hat, a pair of shoes or a shirt etc., would the reporter claim all the 
followers of these trades were impostors, and declare that thev shou'd be sent to States Prison. 
There is more difference between the various systems of what is called fortune tellers than there is 
in the above named different trades. 

The editor of the " Press " knows that there are numbers of people who have gone around to 
different doctors, and all of the same school, (Alopathy,) and yet these doctors give the patient a 
different disease, and they all prescribe different and opposite treatment and medicine, and yet they 
are all taught in the same schools and have the same text books to go by. This has been tried 
over and over again by" Nellie Ely "and numbers of others. 

What a wonderfully happy family we have of the professors of ths Christian religion and yet 
they all have the Bible for a text-book, and Christ for their guide, and constantly consign each 
other to eternal torment, and would have gone on burning one another alive at the stake even to the 
present day, if it was not for the infidels stepping them. The lawyers, judges and legislators are 
no better, and the politicians are the worst of all. 



APPENDIX. 472 

evidence on the subject, it would produce more harmony among them, and 
there would be fewer systems of the practice of medicine, and the number 
of patients who come to untimely deaths would rapidly decrease. 

Some years ago there came into existence several new games, which 
attracted public attention, and for a time they were the fad for almost every- 
body. One was the "Fifteen puzzle," another the "Cows in the clover," 
and the third was putting the " Pigs in the Pen." The latter so absorbed 
the public mind, that even a majority of the Senators, at Washington, if we 
can believe the daily newspapers, spent most of their time in the Committee 
rooms in trying to solve this puzzle, instead of attending to their duties 
for which they were receiving large salaries. 

I know people who spent months trying to solve the "fifteen puzzle," 
and could not do it; others tried to put the "Pigs in the Pen" in as few 
seconds as possible. If they learned to solve the " Fifteen puzzle" every 
time, what good would it have done them, or would it have been any 
advantage to them. Yet I am not aware that there was a single news- 
paper, or minister of the gospel, or lawyer, judge or legislator, that ever 
uttered a single word against people spending their time in such useless 
occupations, or about such studies being a " debasing superstition," or about 
the " mournful incompletensss of modern civilization." Yet it will not take 
any more study, or as much time to become a fair Astrologer as it did to 
solve the " Fifteen puzzle." .When the student has studied Astrology, he 
has learned something that will be of every day use to himself, and to 
his friends or acquaintances, as long as he lives, and will do more to 
enlarge and develop his mental faculties, than any other study he could be 
engaged in, and it will be the means of bringing more happiness, and 
avoiding more misery than anything else, to say nothing of the profit or 
money it may bring them, notwithstanding all the abuse and malicious 
slander that the editors of the New York Times, and other newspapers may 
heap upon it in addition to the slanders that nearly all Christian Ministers 
of the Gospel have piled on it and its professors, and the laws which the 
Legislatures in Christian countries have enacted to crush it, its advocates 
and its practitioners. 

Their object is to keep the people in ignorance but my desire is that the 
reader apply himself with all diligence, in learning to erect a chart of the 
heavens for any geographical latitude and longitude, and for any year, 
month, day of the month, and hour and minute of the day, and learn to read 
it like reading a book. It is to enable the student to calculate charts of the 
heavens, and to read them, that I have published the " Elements of Astrology." 
and to enable him to prove for himself, by his own horoscope and those of 
his friends, the truth or falsity of the science, and not let the ministers of the 
Gospel, newspaper editors, lawyers, doctors, judges or encyclopaedias form his 
opinions for him ; but learn to judge on all these matters for himself; he 
no doubt then will find that all these men know less about the various 
religions, sciences, politics and laws that they are preaching, writing, and 
talking about, and in which they differ so widely than they do about Astrol- 
ogy, which they are so unanimous in condemning. I will conclude this 
section in the words and advice of Longfellow : 

" In the world's broad field of battle, Foot-prints that perhaps another 

In the bivouac of life Sailing o'er life's solemn main, 

Be not like dumb driven cattle, A forlorn, shipwrecked brother, 

Be an hero in the strife. Seeing shall take heart again. 

The lives of great men all remind us Let us then be up and doing, 
That we can make our live's sublime, With a heart for any fate, 

And departing leave behind us Still achieving, still pursuing, 
Foot-prints on the sands of time. Learn to labor, and to wait." 



READ AND REFLECT. 



-»•»-♦ -» < ■ 



Of all sciences which have at any time engaged the attention 
of the world, there is not one of which the real or assumed principles are 
less generally known, in the present age, than those of Astrology. Among 
a thousand persons who now treat the mention of this ancient science 
with supercilious ridicule, there is scarcely one who knows distinctly what 
it is he laughs at. Such contented ignorance, in persons, too, sufficiently 
informed in other respects is the more extraordinary, since Astrology has 
sustained a most conspicuous part throughout the history of the world, even 
until comparatively recent days. In the East, where it first arose, at a period 
of very remote antiquity, it still, even now, holds sway. In Europe, and in 
every part ot the world where learning had " impressed the human soil," 
Astrology reigned supreme until the middle of the 17th century. It entered 
into the councils of princes it guided the policy of nations ; it ruled the daily 
actions of individuals, and physicians who were not well versed in this science, 
were not deemed competent to practice their profession. All this is attested by 
l he records of every nation which has a histony. 



4111§sHllIi41 BdWAlTI* 

OR THE 

Ancient Botanic Practice of Medicine Revived 

BY 

Dr. L. D. BROUGrHTON, 68 So. Washington Square, N. Y. 

Graduate of the Eclectic Medical College t 

Of THE STATE OP PENNSYLVANIA, 

AND 

Editor of "The Eclectic Medical Record," of the State of N. J* 

invalids whose afflictions have been pronounced incurable by 
the old school practice, have been perfectly restored to health by Herbs under 
planetary influence. The Art has been supposed to be lost, but its restoration 
is certain, since minerals arid other unnatural remedies have sent multitudes to 
untimely graves. Ignorance, which always goes hand-in-hand with blind, heaven- 
defying prejudice, may stand aloof. Planetary influence over vegetation has 
Bible authority, the laws of Nature, and the practice of the greatest physicians 
the world ever knew; such as Hippocrates, Galen, Culpepper, &c, &c. Astrology 
and Medicine were ever connected by the master minds of honest philosophy 
and medicine in by-gone days. 



The Opinions of Eminent Ancient Physicians 

Hippocrates, the father of medicine, " declares that the man who did not 
well understand Astrology, was rather deserving to be called a fool than a phy- 
sician."* Galen "declared Anatomy to be the right eye of physic and Astrology 
its left ; for such is the influence of the sun, moon and stars, especially the planets 
upon the human body, or terrestrial bodies." Culpepper, in his British Herbal, 
says : " that those who study Astrology, are the only men who are fit to study 
physics, physic without astrology, being like a lamp without oil." In short it is 
impossible for any physician to foretell the various changes of diseases, the 
''crisis," or "climactric periods," etc., etc., without a knowledge of Astrology. 
When every child is born, the germs of the various or different diseases, it will 
suffer from through life, and the parts of the body which will be affected, are 
impressed on it by the heavenly bodies, and can be foretold or pointed out by 
the Astrologer. Also the different moles, marks, or scars, which any person 
may have in any part of their body. And the physician who undertakes to treat 
a difficult case of sickness without any knowledge Astrology, is equally as 
criminal as the. captain who should attempt to guide a vessel across the Atlantic 
without a knowledge of Astronomy or Navigation. And the time will come 
when this will be the general opinion formed by the public of physicians who 
are ignorant of Astrology. 

The following Questions may be correctly ascertained by the science of 
Astrology, in conjunction with Astro-Medical Botany: — If the sick party will 
recover or die of the present sickness ; if recover, the time they will begin to 
amend ; what part of the body is afflicted or diseased ; what has been the cause 
of the sickness ; when the sick person has had any particular changes, either 
favorable or the reverse, also what kind of Treatment and Medicine would be 
best adapted for the sick person. All these points can be definitely ascertained 
by the above named Sciences ; either by personal application, or by letter from 
the sick person, stating the correct time and sex and place of birth, and without 
any other question being asked of the sick party. 

N. B. All forms of Nervous and Chronic Diseases successfully treated by 
Electricity, Nature's true remedial agent. 

Ladies suffering from Prolapsus Uteri, Leucorrhcea and other Uterine 
complaints, immediately relieved and speedily cured. 

A lady in attendance to wait upon ladies, if the patient desires it. 

Rheumatism, Piles, Paralysis, Epilipsy, Obstructions, Dyspepsia, Pleurisy, 
Opthalmia, Aphonia, Amaurosis, etc. etc., speedily yield to this method of treat- 
ment when skillfully administered. Cases invited that have been pronounced 
incurable by the regular practice 

♦Hippocrates further says, " It is the best thing, in my opinion, for a physician to apply himself 
diligently to the art of foreknowledge, (or Astrology); for he who is master of this art, and 
shows himself such among his patients, with respect to what is present, past or future, declaring 
at the same time wherein the patient his been -wanting, will give su:h proofs of a superior know- 
ledge in what relates to the sick that the generality of men will commie themselves to that physi- 
cian without any manner of diffidence * add to this, the cure will be best performed by one who 
knows beforehand what will happen in diseases. It is, indeed, impossible to recover every sick 
person, or else this wou d be better than the foreknowledge of what is to happen; and, therefore, 
since mankind die, some -of the vehemence of the d sease— before the physician is called, others 
immediately after; some living one day, others a little longer, b fore the physician has 
time to set himself by his art against the particular disease,— knowing, therefore, the nature ol 
such diseases, how far they exceed the power of the body, or how far there my be anything 
divine in them, he ought also to study the art of foreknowing them, for by this means he will 
be justly admired and esteemed a good physician ; add to this, that, as to those who are to_ recover 
he will be better able to preserve them in a proper manner, as his intention or advice in ev°ry 
step is founded upon a l"mg view beforehand ; and, whether the patient lives or dies, his foreknow- 
ing and declaring himself, shall exempt him from all blame." This is a splendid piece for those 
who condemn Astrology to consider; but Astrology is out of fashion, a d unpopular.^ so 
physicians will blunder and kill as many patients as they cure, and the Lord will be credited 
for taking the patient out of this wicked world, when, in reality, it is the physician who has 
murdered the patient on account of his ignorance of Astrology, or foreknowledge. 

P. S. The Doctor will be most happy to give any applicant all the desired information con- 
cerning every known disease, at his office, 

68 South Washington Square, New York, 



ASTROLOGY AND MEDIOINE-The Prognosis of Disease. 

The " London Medical Press and Circular," November 7, 1877, 
in a leading article upon the " Prognosis of Disease," said : — 

" Remarkable is the fact that the study of prognostics should be so neglected 
at the present day, when we reflect how much this department of medical 
science was cultivated at a very early period in the history of medicine. Some 
have gone so far as to say that the science of prognosis has advanced little 
since the time of Hippocrates ; and certainly, if we compare its progress with that 
which has been made in diagnosis, in pathology, and in therapeutics, we must 
admit that it has been comparatively at a standstill. For one work that is written 
on prognosis, there are a thousand on the subjects just mentioned. We are as 
well acquainted as most people with the medical publications of the last half- 
century, and yet, so meagre is our literature, that we cannot call to mind a single 
work that has been entirely devoted to the consideration of a department of medi- 
cine which is of the first importance, and the state of which is the best test that 
can be afforded of the general progress of the healing art. We need scarcely 
remark that the prognosis of disease is one of the chief goals to which all our other 
medical studies should eventually lead, and the chief criterion by which the public 
estimate the scientific value of medicine, and the skill and ability of the practi- 
tioner. A correct prognosis involves a correct diagnosis, a correct pathology, a 
correct estimate of the value of the therapeutic agents at our disposal, and a due 
consideration of the constitution of the patient, his mode of life, his surroundings, 
&c. The greater perfection of medicine as an exact science would be unattainable 
without a much more perfect knowledge of prognosis than we now possess, and in 
this respect prognosis stands on a higher footing than even treatment, or the com- 
bined knowledge of anatomy, pathology, diagnosis, therapeutics and chemistry.* 

" One case of typhoid fever, for example, terminates unfavorably, another to all 
appearances running in a very similar course ends in recovery. In the former case 
the conditions which regulated the progress and termination of the disease, were 
such that it was a physical impossibility for recovery to have taken place, while in 
the other case it was likewise, and for the same reason, a physical impossibility for 
death to have taken place. One of the difficulties therefore, we have to overcome 
is that of discerning what these conditions are." 

Thus we see the helplessness of the medical profession in regard to prognostics. 
The wisdom of Hippocrates and Galen is set at naught in this matter, and the 
fact is concealed that they taught that Astrology must be studied by physicians, 
before they can be safely trusted to arrive at a correct prognosis, and to employ 

♦From " New York Herald" of November 27, 1878. 
" Great Discovery in Chemistry. — At the last sitting of the French Academy of Sciences, 
a very remarkable communication was read from Mr. Norman Lockyer, which, if correct, will 
entirely overthrow all the theories of Chemistry at present accepted. In a series of investiga- 
tions extending over some years, into the nature of the spectra of the sun and other heavenly 
bodies, and of different simple bodies at various degrees of temperature, Mr. Lockyer has 
arrived at the conviction that all the elementary bodies recognized by chemists are neither 
more nor less than hydrogen at various degrees of condensation. According to Mr. Lockyer, 
the stars which are the hottest, contain either pure hydrogen or the most elementary substances. 
The sun consists of a mixture of various elements, while the colder heavenly bodies, such as 
Saturn, Jupiter and Mars, show the most complex compounds. The startling nature of the 
announcement excited great astonishment, as it is utterly opposed to the scientific notions of 
the chemistry of the present day, and very naturally makes us think that the ancient Astrolo- 
gers were not after all such visionaries as they have generally been considered." 

Mr. Edison has just electrified the world with his marvellous invention of bottling 
sounds with his Telephone, and before we get over the astonishment, here steps forward 
Professor Hughes, who announces the discovery of the Microphone, which is the offspring of 
the Telephone, and which has the power of magnifying the sound of a fly's footsteps until it 
seems like the tramp of a race-horse. We see therefore that " the music of the spheres " may 
not be an astronomical myth after all. Who knows but that by the aid of a sufficiently sensitive 
Microphone, the minute beatings of the heart, the flowing of the blood through the smallest 
blood vessels, the expansion of the lung tissue, and even those subtle transitions of brain or nerve 
subtance, each producing, in health, its own peculiar audible sound or harmonious rythms, and 
in disease, each member or organ of the body emitting its own peculiar discordant vibration — I 
say, who knows but by this valuable discovery of the Microphone, and by going back to the 
only true system of medicine, or the ancient Astrological practice of Hippocrates and Galen, 
ihat more progress will be made in a few years in diagnosis and prognosis of diseases, than has 
"Seen made in the last two thousand years. 



the appropriate remedies In the treatment of the cases submitted to their care. 
Dr. Watson, of London, who wrote a work on " The Medical Profession in Ancient 
Times," (1856, page 169), testified to the fact that Galen advocated the Hippocratic 
doctrine of critical days, and " attempts to support it on grounds purely theoretical, 
and drawn from the periodical changes in nature, or the influence of the stars.' 1 
It is also concealed, but it is nevertheless true, that Galen admonished his con- 
temporaries " not to trust themselves to that physician (or rather pretender) who is 
not skilled in Astrology." 

The chief (astrological) method of forming a judgement of tke violence and 
magnitude of a disease, or whether it is curable or fatal, is by inspection of the 
scheme of the heavens, erected for the moment of birth of the patient, if it can be 
procured, for sickness very seldom happens but through some malignant directions 
of the luminaries, or of the ascendant to the body or aspects of the malefic planets 
(Mars, Saturn, and Uranus). 

We know that the moment of birth is a consideration above all others, but if 
the figure of birth cannot be had, or if it be not exact, and rectified by events, then 
in this case the figure for the decumbiture, or the time when the patient is first 
taken sick, must be procured and used in its stead. 

If physicians of this day were to study Astrology in connection with medicine, 
as Hippocrates, the father of medicine, taught and practiced, it would enable them 
to determine why in one case " it was a physical impossibility for recovery to have 
taken place, while in the other case it was likewise a physical impossibility for 
death to have taken place." The occurrence of the crisis, and the nature of the 
prognosis can be foretold with scientific precision, by watching the motion of the 
moon, and her configuration with the sun and planets in the sick person's nativity, 
or, if that cannot be obtained, a map of the heavens taken for the time the patient 
is first taken sick, or the time he first sees his physician. 

The following are some of the aphorisms of Cardan relating to medical astrology : 
• ' In sickness, when the Moon applies to a planet contrary to the nature of the 
distemper, especially if it be a fortune, the disease will be changed for the better. 

" When the Moon at the decumbiture, or first falling sick, shall be under the 
beams of the Sun, or with Saturn, Mars [or Uranus,] if the party be old, even her 
conjunction with Jupiter, Venus, or Mercury, is not without peril. 

*' Saturn causes long diseases ; Mercury, varying ones ; the Moon, such as return 
after a time, as vertigoes, epilepsy, etc.; Jupiter and the Sun give short diseases ; 
but Mars, the acutest of all. 

" When the Moon is in a fixed sign, physic works the less ; and if in Aries,- 
Taurus or Capricorn, will be apt to prove nauseous to the patient. 

" In purging, it is well that both the Moon and the lord of the ascendant be 
descending and under the Earth ; in vomiting that they ascend. 

" When at the beginning of a disease the luminaries are both with the infortunes, 
or in opposition to them, the sick will hardly escape. 

"With respect to fevers. When the Sun is afflicted in Leo, mischievous fevers 
are threatened. It will be a fatal time to suffer amputation, or lose any member, 
when the Moon is under the Sun's beams and opposed by Mars. 

" When you think to do good to your eyes, let the Moon be fortunate, increasing 
in light, and by no means in a sign of earthly triplicity." 

"A physician is nature's helper, or at least he ought to be. Whosoever would 
help nature, must of necessity be well acquainted with her laws. A little com- 
munication or understanding of her laws will instruct him in the way and manner 
the Almighty governs the world. Wisdom instructs her children in the know- 
ledge of time, for there is an appointed time for everything under the sun. If, then, 
when a disease seems extremely dangerous, you would make an essay to relieve 
languishing nature, do it at the time when the Moon passes by the body or good 
aspect of Jupiter or Venus ; then is the patient in a condition to receive help. 
You can sooner lift up a living man with one finger than a dead man with both 
hands ; a bird, whilst it has wings can fly, but cut off the wings, and hang a couple 
of stones on its legs, and it cannot. Even so the good aspects of the Moon to Jupi- 
ter and Venus are like wings to conduct the man from sickness to health. The 
bodies and aspects of Saturn and Mars to the Moon are like stones to weigh him 
\o the grave. 



'The aspects of the Moon to the planets are always to be noted, for they will 
produce something, either favorable or unfavorable to the sick ; but upon critical 
and judicial days the influence of the Moon's aspects to the planets or the Sun 
are much more marked, for you will find this a certain truth, even as certain as 
the existence of the Sun, that when the Moon passes by the body of Jupiter or 
Venus, or their aspects, especially their good ones, if they be not lords of death, 
she remits the most desperate symptoms in sickness, and gives the sick some ease ; 
as aLo the Moon to the bodies, or any evil aspect of Saturn or Mars, exasperates a 
disease, and dispels the most hopeful symptoms. 

For the Cure of any Disease take these Rules. 

"First determine what the disease is. 

"Second, consider what is the author or cause of it ; and that you may know if 
you notice or consider what planet governs that disease. 

"Consider whether it be caused by the sympathy or antipathy of the planet; and 
that you may know this (which is the whole key of physic), consider first whether 
the planet afflicting governs the part afflicted ; and if he has any dominion in that 
part of the body he causes it by sympathy. One example will clear all : — Suppose 
the disease is in the bones, spleen, etc., if Saturn be the cause of it, it is by sympathy, 
because he governs those parts ; and so of the other planets. 

"If the disease be caused by antipathy, consider what part of the body any planet 
afflicts, either by his presence or aspects ; and then, secondly, consider what planet 
governs that part. If the planet afflicting be an enemy to that planet governing 
that part, then the disease is caused by antipathy. As is the disease so is the 
cure. 

"If by antipathy, then apply those medicines proper to the place affected and 
governed by the afflicting planet ; then the cure is by antipathy. Suppose 
Saturn afflicts some part the Moon governs, here the disease is cured by antipathy, 
because Saturn is an enemy to the Moon ; to cure which, apply herbs, roots, etc., 
to the part affected and governed by the Moon, because they are antipathetical to 
the disease caused by Saturn. 

"If the disease is caused by his sympathy, then must you apply medicine proper 
to the parts affected, or disease affecting and governing by that planet afflicting ; 
here is cure by sympathy ; here the planet that kills or strikes is repelled, or is beat 
with his own weapons. 

"One thing more let me tell you, and I will tell you but the truth. The old as- 
trologers say if Saturn afflicts, Jupiter helps more than Venus ; but if Mars afflicts, 
Venus helps more than Jupiter. Let them say so still ; but make use of that for- 
tune which is strongest. A rich friend may relieve your wants, a poor friend can- 
not — he may wish you well, but cannot help you. ^But suppose you dare not wait 
until the Moon comes to the good aspect of Jupiter and Venus, administer your 
medicine when she is in the place where one of them was at the decumbiture. If 
you dare not wait until that time neither, for delay is dangerous in acute diseases, 
be sure you place one of those two in the ascendant when you administer the medi- 
cine. 

"The place and state of the planet from which the Moon is separated at the de- 
cumbiture, and the condition of the planet also, is to be heeded. 

"If you please to observe the state of that same planet, by it you may know the 
state of the sick, and what the cause of the sickness is. 

"When you have done so, it is your wisest way to consider to what planet the 
Moon applies ; and then do but view what sign that planet is in, what his conditions 
be, whether he is benevolent or malevolent, whether he is masculine or feminine, 
diurnal or nocturnal, hot, diy, cold, or moist, what part of the body he governs, and 
what disease he signifies. 

"Consider whether the planet the Moon applies to be in an angle, in a succeedent, 
or in acadent house ; and when you have done so, do but consider what the house 
he is in signifies, and what members of the body he governs ; and then take but a 
little notice whether the planet joys in the house or not. That you may not be 
mistaken therein, I will inform you in what house every planet takes his delight, as 
being suspicious, even amengst astrologers, more are ignorant of it than know it. 



1. The Sun delights in the 4th, 9th and nth houses. 

2. The Moon rejoices in the 3d and 7th houses. 

3. Saturn rejoices in the ascendant, 8th and 1 2th houses. 

4. Jupiter rejoices in the 2d, 9th and nth. 

5. Mars rejoices in the 3d, 5 th and 10th. 

6. Venus rejoices in the 5th and 12th. 

7. Mercury rejoices in the ascendant and 6th. 

"Consider whether the planet the Moon applies to be direct or retrograde, swift 
or slow in motion, oriental, occidental, or combust ; whether fortunated or unfor- 
tunated by other planets. 

"When you have done so, it is your wisest way to consider whether the afflicting 
planet be in its own house or exaltation, or other essential dignities, whether he be 
in planet's of good terms or evil ; for if a good planet has got an ill planet in his 
term he will order him. In one word, consider whether the threatening planet has 
power to execute his will or not. 

"First, take notice that the significators of diseases are to be taken under these 
two denominations— 1, General, or more principal ; 2, Particular, or less principal. 
The general or more principal are these — The Sun, the Moon and the ascendant. 
Of these, the Sun is principally to be looked to in chronic diseases, the Moon in 
acute. 

"Significators particular, or less principal, are these — 
1st. The lord of the ascendant. 
2d. The 6th house. 
3d. The lord of the 6th house. 
4th. The pianet in the ascendant or 6th house. 

5th. Saturn and Mars, for they naturally hurt the body, whatever the matter 
or disease is. 
"The 6th house and its lord, and the planets in it, if there be any there, best 
describe the nature of the disease usually, nay always, if they afflict either of the 
luminaries, or the lord of the ascendant. 

"Consider what configurations the lord of the ascendant, the 6th and 8th 
houses, have one with another ; and amongst the rest, do not forget the lords of 
the 7th and I2th houses, and I will give you my reason why. — The 7th, because he 
opposes the ascendanc, he assaults life openly ; and the 6th, 8th, and I2th houses 
have no affinity at all with the ascendant, but signify the loss of life. 
"Partile aspects are far more strong and prevalent than platic. 
"You must always consider that the 6th and its lord signifies the sickness ; the 
7th, the physician ; the 8th, death ; the 10th, the medicine ; and the 4th, the end 
of the disease." 

Hippocrates (and be it remembered that he and his followers for centuries were 
heathens) held that life could be prolonged just so long as the vital forces were ca- 
pable of resisting disease or natural decay, and no longer, and that so long as the 
"hyleg" (giver of life) remained strong, so long the person would live, medicine or 
no medicine. They maintained that while the " giver of life" is strong and un- 
affiicted, death would be a physical impossibility, pills and drugs to the contrary 
notwithstanding. 

He also taught (vol. i. p. 360) : " The physician must be able to tell the ante- 
cedents, know the past, and foretell the future. Must meditate these things, and 
have two special objects in view, with regard to disease, namely : to do good or to 
do no harm. The art consists in three things — the 'disease' (its nature), the 'patient' 
(his constitutional maladies and natural ability to resist disease), and the 'physician.' 
The physician is the servant of the art, and the patient (not the medicine adminis- 
tered, chiefly,) must combat the disease along with the physician. 

Has Hippocrates' doctrines and teachings been "exploded long ago" ? Modern 
medical works speak of him as the "father of medicine." 

In his day it was the custom of the physician to erect a map of the heavens of the 
birth of the patient, to determine what the patient's constitutional diseases were likely 
to be, — what portions of the system were indicated as being weak by the position of 
the planets at birth, — each zodiacal sign governing certain portions of the body, as 
Aries, the head ; Taurus, the throat ; Cancer, the chest ; Libra, the kidneys, etc. 



Another mapof the heavens was erected for the date of the beginning of the 
disease, to ascertain what planets are transiting through the patient's attendant 
(house of life— the sign ascendmg in the east at birth) or over the places of the Sun 
Moon or other planets at birth, to ascertain the nature of the disease, and the tarts 
of the body where the disease was located at that time. 

For example: the cold, phlegmatic Moon located at birth in the sign Cancer 
(the breast) being transited by the cold Saturn, would be likely, in a *Wr constitu- 
tion to produce a cough, or some other chest disease, produced by the concentration 
of too much cold in the breast at this time. Mars transiting the same place instead 
of Saturn, if afflicted, might produce measles, inflammation of the lungs or fever or 
some hot disease of his nature in the sign Cancer. In a strong and healthy const i'tu- 
tion these transits are but seldom serious, and sometimes are but hardly noticeable 
until the person is advanced in life. 

Physical harmony and perfect development in all particulars, comes of planetary 
™? ny at time ° f bllth ' and from harmon y> inharmonious results cannot come. 
When people are ignorant of those planetary laws governing our nature the mis- 
takes and wrong conclusions they often arrive at are innumerable ; especially are 
those (sometimes fatal) mistakes liable to occur in calling in or changing a physician, 
or in prescribing medicine for a very sick patient. For instance, a medicine is pre- 
scribed, or a physician is called to attend a patient at the first stages of a disease, 
(when a transit is just commencing and not yet complete), and the patient grows 
worse on his hands, or while taking that medicine, the physician is dismissed for 
supposed incompetency, or the medicine is changed because it is imagined to be 
making the patient worse. Just at the time when, astrologically speaking, the 
planets transiting have reached a degree of longitude occupied by the Moon at 
birth, another physician is called, or another medicine is tried (just as the transit- 
ing planet is passing off the place transited), and the patient at once begins to im- 
prove (the planetary cause now passing off), the last physician, or the last medicine 
is accredited with the cure, by both the patient and his friends. 

Not so, says the astrologer, for the first physician may be far the better m?.n, 
more prudent, painstaking and philanthropic ; or the first medicine might have been 
much better for the patient and the disease, but unfortunately for the physician, or 
the medicine he was then using, the physician by being dismissed, or the medicine 
by being changed a little too soon to reap the benefit of the planetary separation, 
which benefit accrues to the latter, unmerited. 

There are times, or rather certain positions of the planets, when to change the 
physician or medicine, or to perform a common surgical operation is certain death 
to the patient. 

By astrology only are these phenomena elucidated and logically explained. 
Without astrology man treads, as it were, in the dim twilight of ignorance, or as 
Culpepper says, "medicine without astrology, is like a lamp without oil." Man's 
constitution is surrounded by and interwoven with subtle laws, which cannot be 
violated with impunity, or without him suffering the consequences. 

It is known to all who have studied their influences, that the numerous diseases 
afflicting mankind, are caused by the planetary bodies ; and by observing the 
different significators in a nativity, the nature of the disorders to which the consti- 
tution is predisposed may be ascertained, and this fact once known, the cure is 
half effected. 

But it must be understood, that success in curing the disease depends greatly 
on the time when the treatment is commenced. There is a period when no disease 
can be combated, when it has obtained the mastery, and the physical, energy and 
vitality is so lessened and reduced as to be beyond human power. 

1 have made these numerous quotations from the writings of Hippocrates and other ancient 
physicians, to show the reader that the ancients were not so ignorant in the most important 
branches of medicine as physicians are at the present day. These observations which they had 
made on prognosis and diagnosis of disease, in connection with planetary influence, had been 
continued for hundreds or thousands of years ; and the perfection at which they had arrived 
in astro-medical botany, and in prognosing disease, by the positions and aspects of the Moon 
and planets, was so marvelous, that it will reouire hundreds of years of patient application and 
observation of planetary influence in disease, for the physicians of the present and coming 
generations, to arrive at anything like the perfection attained by our forefathers two thousand 
years ago. 

If, in publishing this circular, 1 have succeeded in drawing the attention of even a few prac- 
ticing physicians, so that they will commence to investigate this ancient and only true system 
of medicine, as I and my forefathers have done, its maiu oh'ect will be accomplished. 



The study of the stars has always been pursued in all ages. The astrologer and 
philosopher have ever occupied prominent places among men. At the present 
time, the astrologer who has studied the science and read the books of the old 
masters of the art, cannot be otherwise than a learned man, and capable of giving 
to the world much that is useful, interesting and exciting. The realms of the past, 
the present and the future are constantly before his vision, and with magic power, 
lessons of wisdom are imparted with almost entire accuracy. 

To those entirely unacquainted with judicial Astronomy or Astrology, it will, 
perhaps, be necessary to state that it is a science based upon mathematical calcula- 
tions, deductions being made from the daily configurations and aspects of the 
planetary orbs, and has no connection with the various methods of fortune telling 
by cards and other methods of divination imposed upon the public. 

The desire to penetrate the future is common to all, it is born with our birth 
and implanted in us for a wise purpose and the signs of the heavens interpreted 
by a skillful professor are the only true means of attaining it. 

There is nothing repugnant to virtue, morality, or the laws of the Deity in the 
study or application of" astral science to the benefit of mankind ; it is perhaps the 
most ancient of all sciences, and has been studied and venerated by literary men 
from time immemorial. 

A nativity is a scheme or diagram of the heavens at the time of birth ; from 
this, deductions can be made regarding duration of life, sickness, accidents, mental 
qualities, disposition, the profession or employment most suitable, description of 
person of wife or husband, children, reputation, friends, enemies, wealth, prosperity 
or adversity, honor, etc., etc. ; and by computing the planetary motions termed 
transits, or arcs of direction, the periods are foretold when changes for good 
or evil may be expected, and the various future events of life ascertained. From 
this diagram of the heavens, the road to health and happiness so far as attainable 
in individual cases can be pointed out. 

Parents knowing the planetary influences existing at the birth of their children, 
are enabled so to direct their education as to be of incalculable advantage to their 
future interests in life. 

By Horary Astrology, may be determined the result, success or failure of any in- 
tention, event or undertaking, such as speculations, investments, co-partnerships, 
lawsuits, courtship, marriage, making purchases or sales, rise and fall of the grain 
or stock market, mortgages, hiring houses or lands, commencing business or journeys, 
obtaining employment or office, the most profitable quarter to reside in for the 
pursuit of health or wealth, recoveiy of debts, situation and health of absent 
friends, lost property, mining interests — in short there are no transactions in life 
which may not must ceitainly be determined when the inquirer sincerely desires in- 
formation. This knowledge of the future is invaluable to the trader, farmer, mer- 
chant and speculator, 



L. D. BROUGHTON, M. D., 

President of the International Astrological Society, located in the City 

of New York, 

Editor of "Broughton's Monthly Planet Reader and Astrological Journal," Etc., 
Respectfully announces to his friends and the public in general, that he is per- 
manently located at 68 South Washington Square, New York, 
where he will be happy to receive all those who may favor him with a visit. Hi* 
scientific and literary attainments as an Astrologer makes it an object for the public 
to consult him upon the various contingencies and events of human life. 

The most sensitive need have no hesitation in seeking for information upon any 
matter, as the Doctor pays the most scrupulous regard to the feelings and interests 
of those who consult him, his sole aim being to advise with sincerity, and in all 
cases the most inviolable confidence is observed. 

CONSULTATION FEE— Ladies $i to $3 ; gentlemen $3 to $5. Office open 
day and evening. 

Persons residing at a distance, can consult the Doctor by letter, enclosing $3 
and stamp. Send date and place of birth, hour and minute if possible ; if hour 



and minute are not known send a description of person, height, weight, color of 
hair, complexion, etc., and state time of some events such as sickness, etc., and if 
married, give date of marriage, as this assists the Doctor in finding the true time of 
birth. 



THE OPINION OF THE PRESS. 

Wonders Never Cease.— We understand that Dr. L. D. Broughton of this city has a 
method of telling any person's disposition and character by the position of the planets at the 
time of birth, and also that he can tell any person's past, present and future destiny by the 
revolutions of the Heavenly bodies and with as much certainty as an astronomer can tell when 
it will be Summer and Winter by the revolution of the earth around the Sun- and that he 
can tell whether any person will become wealthy, and what kind of business they will succeed 
the best in, and what they are best adapted for ; also the description and disposition of any 
person's future wife or husband, and if they will live happily in a married life, etc., etc. 

Should this fact be thoroughly established by trial and experience, we think that it will be 
oneot the greatest sciences of the age; for if people could tell for certain what is likely to 
happen to them, they might guard against misfortune very much, so as not to feel its influence 
in its full force, just in the same manner as we can guard against the cold and inclemency of 
Winter by providing suitable clothing, food, fire, etc., and if we knew when our most fortunate 
times were coming, we might improve them very much. As Shakespeare says : 
" There is a tide in the affairs of men 

Which taken at the flood leads on to fortune, 

Omitted, all the voyage of their life 

Is bound in shallows and in miseries." 
We would say to all our readers, call on or send time and place of birth to Dr. Broughton, 
and give him a fair trial, and then you can prove for yourself whether there is any truth in this 
science or not. His charges are very moderate.— Philadelphia Evening Reporter. 



To the opponents of Astrology I have not one word to say in defense of this 
science, but to those who are unprejudiced and wish to learn the truth, I will here 
offer a few suggestions which may assist them in investigating this subject. 

That the heavenly bodies, that is, the stars, Sun, Moon, and planets, have an 
effect upon this earth and its inhabitants is as self-evident a truth as that they have 
an existence. The ebbing and flowing of the tides prove this, as well as the peri- 
odical returns of heat and cold, light and darkness ; these are some of the most 
prominent influences by which the truths of Astrology become manifest, and planet- 
ary influences are being universally felt and admitted, and its periods are accurately 
calculated and known. Thus far, at least, all men and women are astrologers, but 
most of them are like the man who had been talking prose all his life and did not 
know it. 

The opponents of Astrology tell us that this science has been exploded, but 
when or where the explosion took place, or who heard it, "deponent sayeth not," 
simply because they do not know and never will. 

Twenty-five years ago I stood, as it were, alone, and almost the only advocate 
and defender of this science on this continent, and the reader of this day would 
not believe the amount of persecution I had to endure; but within the last twenty 
years there has been a great change in public opinion in regard to the science of 
Astrology and its professors. 

The scientific men and savans, both in Europe and this country, have begun to 
give attention to this ancient science, and have come to the conclusion that our 
forefathers for hundreds of years past, were not such fools after all as they have 
taken them to be. 

One of the prominent lecturers who have drawn attention to this subject, in 
his lectures and publications is the English astronomer, Mr. Richard A. Proctor, 
who in his book called Myths and Marvels of Astronomy, on page 7, says : 

" The Moon, as she circles around the earth exerts a manifest influence upon 
terrestrial matter — the tidal wave, rising and sinking cinchronously with the move- 
ments of the Moon, and other consequences depend, directly or indirectly upon her 
revolution around the earth. The Sun's influence is still more manifest, being the 
greater light which rules the day, rules the seasons also— and in ruling them provides 
the annual supply of vegetable food on which the very existence of men and animals 
depend, if these two bodies, the Sun and Moon, are thus potent, must it not be 
supposed that the other celestial bodies exert corresponding influences. The Sun 
is second only to the Moon in tidal influences. We know also that his position as 



fire, light, and life of the earth, and its inhabitants, is due directly to the tremendous 
heat with which the whole of his mighty frame is instinct." 

And the same author goes on to say, on page 15 : 

" The seasons of our earth, are affected by the condition of the Sun in the matter 
of spots — for instance, it has been found that years, when the Sun has been free 
from spots, have been warmer than the average. And that the Sun's spots wax and 
ware in periods of time which are manifestly referable to the planetary motions. 
Thus the great solar spot period lasts about eleven years, the successive spotless 
epochs being separated on the average by about that time ; and so nearly does this 
period agree with the period of the planet Jupiter's revolution around the Sun, that 
during eight consecutive spot periods the spots were most numerous when Jupiter 
was nearest to the Sun. Seeing then that the Sun's spots manifestly affect the 
weather and the seasons, while the planets rule the Sun's spots, it is clear that the 
planets really rule the seasons, and again, seeing that the planets rule the seasons, 
while the seasons largely affect the well being of men and nations (to say nothing 
of animals), it follows that the planets influence the fate of men and nations (and 
animals)." 

This is positive proof of the influence of the planets on the earth and its inhabi- 
tants. 

Dr. Knapp, of Chicago, Illinois, has of late years drawn special attention to the 
petihelion of the superior planets, and the remarkable effects which have been pro- 
duced on the earth in droughts, pestilence and famine, and which have always 
occurred at those particular periods when those planets were in their perihelion. 

The effects which have been produced upon the earth by those superior planets 
being in their nearest position to the sun, appears to outweigh all other natural 
causes in producing those various epidemics, at those particular epochs, and no 
wonder that the effect should be marvelous when we consider the Sun as the great 
source of light and heat to our earth, and so many of those planets which are so 
many thousand times larger than our earth, and while in their perihelion being so 
many millions of miles nearer to the Sun, and drawing from that source so much 
more of its light, heat and magnetism than their usual share or allotment, and 
leaving our earth so much less than its natural share, that the effect should be that 
our atmosphere becomes "muggy" and the sky loses its natural healthy blueness, 
the sun almost covered with spots, harvests fail, and pestilence should stalk through 
the land at those particular periods. 

During the fifth century, at one of those perihelion of the superior planets, there 
was an epidemic caused by it, which carried off over fifty millions of the people 

during; that time. 

I have not space in this pamphlet to notice the different penhelions that have 
occurred since the Christian era commenced, and therefore refer the readers to the 
writings of Dr. Knapp, who has calculated all the pe?ihelions, and who has taken 
note of all the epidemics for the last two thousand years, and has shown clearly 
that there has not been any epidemic of any note, during all that time, that has not 
occurred during the perihelion of one or more of the superior planets. 

B. G. Jenkins, F. R. A. S., of England, in an article published in The Pall Mall 
Gazette, London, says : 

" The reason why people of the present day do not believe in planetary influence 
"if- t 1 wo - fold ~ first > lt 1S held to betoken ignorance and superstition ; points on 
which educated people are very sensitive, and secondly, they cannot imagine how 
such tiny objects can affect their great globe, unconsciously forgetting that our earth 
among the planets is as a pea among cannon balls. From a lengthy study of this 
subject, I can come to no other conclusion than that the planets of the solar system 
are intimately connected with the phenomena or what takes place on this earth 
and I shall in as few words as possible, lay before the reader my reasons for such a 
conclusion. 

Mr. Jenkins goes on to cite the different periods at which cholera was pervalent 
from 1816 to 1861, and he noticed that the outbreak occured about every seventeen 
years, which periods were alternately the maximum and minimum of the Sun's spots 
He further says ; l 



Certainly the Sun spots could not have produced the cholera, for there was a 
great outbreak when they were very plentiful, and next when they were very few 
but that there was a connection, I felt convinced, and that they were both in the 
nature of cause and effect." 

Further on, he says: 

a. " * su Sg ested ' in a P a Per I read at the time before the Royal Historical Society 
that the cause was probably to be found in the influence of the planets I noticed 
the number of periods in which cholera broke out, but meanwhile I worked at the 
bun s spots, and was rewarded by finding that the average period of the phenomena 
or magnetic storms or auroral periods was eleven and one-ninth years, the period of 
Jupiter s animalistic year. I then turned to terrestrial magnetism, and found that 
the needle of the compass, at London was moving east up to 1580, and west 
till 1816, and east ever since. The outbreak of the plague directed my attention to 
that subject ; as the magnetic poles advance the epidemics accompanied them. 
On calculating back, I found that the line which is now passing across Russia 
and causing diphtheria, pestilence, famine, etc., must have passed over that region five 
hundred years ago ; this will take us back to the middle of the fourteenth century 
and with similar magnetic conditions we have similar epidemics." 

The Black Death.— We know this plague devastated Europe more or less the 
two centuries thereafter, culuminating in the great plague of London in 1665 It 
occurred to me that the planet Neptune might be the cause of the movement of 
the magnetic pole. On examining the movements of that planet and its orbit I 
found that the movements of the needle varied in accordance with those of that 
planet, while it makes three revolutions. The magnet makes an eccentric circle 
around the pole of the earth ; this eccentricity I found was due to some influence 
at the maximum of about 80 years. On examining the movements and position oi 
Uranus, which planet completes its revolution in 84 years, I found that they were 
such as to account for the anomaly. 

In conclusion, Mr. Jenkins agrees with Dr. Knapp of Chicago, that within the 
next seven years, commencing with 1S80, there will occur that which has not hap- 
pened before for hundreds of years. All the superior planets will be at or near 
their nearest point to the sun, called the perihelion of the planets ; therefore we 
may expect extraordinary magnetic phenomena during the next seven years. 
Great plagues will manifest themselves in all their intensity, commencing about 
1878 and ending about 1886 or a few years later. 

I copy the following from the New York Sunday Mercury, June 27, 1880 : 
"There occurs a conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn about every twenty years. A conjunction 
took place in 1822, another in 1842, and another in 1861. Anothci conjunction will occur in 1881. 
and another in 1901 ; and the two planets will make their commensurate perihelia in 1915. 

"Jupiter will make his perihelia in October, 1880 ; Mars will lollow a year hence, on May 28, 
1881 ; Neptune, a few months later ; Urauus, in the spring of 1882 ; and Saturn in the autumn of 
1885. In other words all the great planets are rapidly approaching the great central luminary. 
Great drifts of sun-spots consequently shoot athwart his disk. The earth feels the reactive 
effect of the solar disturbance. Rain is withheld ; springs are dried up ; grass is withered ; crops 
are ruined, and gaunt famine stares us in the face. With the unpleasant experiences of the past, 
and the, probably, near future before us, the subject of the striking coincidences of planetary 
perihelia and pes'tilence, will be likely to receive more respectful attention from astronomers 
and medical men than it has been accorded in the past." 

Although it is reasonable to expect that the perihelion of the superior planets, 
(which phenomenon commences in the latter part of this year, 1880, and lasts 
until the end of 1885), will have a similar effect, and which effect is felt a few 
years before the first pe7-ihelion, and also for a number of years after the last 
perihelion, on the earth and its inhabitants, in droughts, epidemics, pestilence 
and famine, that they have had in former ages, yet it is unreasonable to expect that 
their influences will be felt as much as formerly in cultivated and civilized countries. 
For instance, the improvements in ship building, navigation, canals, and railways 
will prevent famine from becoming very prevalent in any one civilized country, as 
those improvements in travel can take the surplus of eatables from more fortunate 
localities; as the crops have never been known to fail in all parts of the world 
alike, or to the same extent at one time. As an instance, the famine in Ireland 
and the large crops in America in 1879, enabled us to give or send some of our 
surplus to that famishing country. 



The improvements in the supply of fresh water, and good sewerage, and the sani- 
tary conditions of large towns and cities, have also, in a great measure prevented the 
spread of epidemics such as cholera, yellow fever, etc., from one city to another, 
except in those places where the water, drainage, and sanitary conditions are 

For instance, although the yellow fever was very prevalent in the Summer and 
Fall of 1878, in New Orleans, Grenada, Vicksburg and Memphis where the drain- 
age and water were unhealthy, and although numbers of people Stricken with yel- 
low fever fled to Philadelphia, New York, and other cities where numbers of them 
died, yet that fever did not become epidemic or contagious in those cities. 

Nearly a hundred years ago Dr. Rush and Dr. Caldwell, both of Philadelphia, 
Pa., became almost bitter enemies in their discussions and arguments as to whether 
yellow fever was epidemic or endemic. Dr. Caldwell took the endemic side, and 
Dr. Rush the epidemic. Dr. Rush argued that if they could keep the yellow fever 
from being imported into Philadelphia they would never have any there. Dr. 
Caldwell argued that if they had plenty of fresh water in Philadelphia, and kept 
the streets and sewers clean, they would still have no yellow fever there, even if 
it was imported. The facts have proved since, that Dr. Caldwell was right, as they 
have never had yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia since they stopped using the 
well water; and the purer water of the Schuylkill has been used for drinking and 
cooking purposes, and also in quantities to keep the streets and sewers clean. 
The same may be said of New York, since they have used the water of the Croton 
River, and the same principle applies to other cities in the Northern States. 

Although all those improvements in the sanitary condition of cities have greatly 
improved the health of the people living in them, and in preventing the develop- 
ment and spread of those various epidemics, yet we cannot prevent altogether those 
peculiar conditions of the atmosphere which are the main secondary causes of 
those epidemics, and which are produced by planetary influences. 

Sometimes some simple-minded physician, who perhaps has discovered a remedy 
for some special disease, and which in most ordinary cases appears to have a bene- 
ficial effect in curing or alleviating that disease, yet when applied in those cases pro- 
ducedby telluiic influence appears to have no effect whatever. I might instance a cer- 
tain doctor, who went to New Orleans in the Fall of 1878. during the yellow fever 
epidemic in that city, with a peculiar patent bedstead to be in some way used in 
curing that fever ; yet when applied there, and in that particular condition of the 
atmosphere, had no effect, and he soon became a victim to the yellow fever himself. 

I might also instance here a certain doctor who went from the United States to 
Russia, with a certain plant which he deemed a positive cure for diphtheria, a disease 
which has become epidemic in that country of late through telluric influence, and 
although there has been a number of diphtheria patients placed under his care, 
yet according to the report every one of them has died while under his treatment, 
and he may in time become a victim to his own infatuation. 

I mention these few instances to illustrate my point, that all doctors ought to 
study those peculiar planetary influences which cause the various epidemics : then 
they would not be so likely to lose all faith in some good remedy for some special 
disease ; which might be good in all ordinary cases of that disease, but of no use 
when applied under those special telluric influences and conditions. A fire engine 
might be very useful in quenching a fire in an ordinary building, but of no use 
whatever when a prairie is on fire, in a very hot and dry season. 

The ancestors of Dr. Broughton have made Astrology, in connection with 
medicine a special study for a number of generations, and the Hippocrates practice 
of medicine has been taught, from father to son, in their family during that time. 

Dr. Broughton has also had a large practice in Astrology and Medical Botany, 
For over 25 years, in England, Philadelphia, New York and Saratoga Springs ; "he 
would be happy to treat any patient who has not found relief from any other sys- 
tem of practice, at his office and residence, 

68 South Washington Square, New York. 

"""- can also be consulted by letter enclosing $2, giving time of birth of patient, 
a st taken sick, etc. 

ficuratle cases solicited and cured or money returned. 



BROUGHTON'S 

Monthly Planet Reader 



AND 



ASTROLOGICAL JOURNAL. 



This periodical commenced April ist, i860, and continued 
to Dec. , 1869 ; all the back numbers are bound in one volume, 
price, by mail, $1.00. It contains nearly 300 pages, and was 
devoted to the illustration and defence of Astrology, besides 
a great deal of very curious information regarding the 
science of Astrology and the occult. It contains a great 
number of horoscopes of leading generals who fought in the 
Rebellion, and of presidents of the United States. Among 
others the horoscopes of Gen. George B. McClellan, General 
Winfield Scott, President Buchanan, President Lincoln, 
Gen. Grant, Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, Gen. John C. 
Fremont, Stephen A. Douglass, Hon. John Bell, The 
Prince of Wales, Charles Dickens, Lord Byron, Hon. 
William H. Seward, Gen. Burnside, Gen. Giuseppe Garibaldi 
and Gen. Washington, with charts of the heavens for the same. 

It also contains a colored chart illustrating Astro- 
Phrenology and a guide for students for that science, 
besides other interesting matter. 

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